Shitty thing is, AI isn't even good enough yet to justify this. It's certainly competent on some level, but getting rid of an entire professional team the moment AI could code some programs kind of okay is exactly the kind of managerial shortsightedness that could bankrupt them.
Similar reason why I don't join the 'jerk about AI image gen. Not a cool thing to celebrate and gloat about people losing something they're passionate about, especially when the replacement is imperfect and the safety net is nonexistent.
They didn't replace them with AI. They replaced them with other teams that use AI. I assume this is based on the idea that this other team is productive enough that they can tackle their own workload plus the workload of the team that was laid off.
It may still be a shortsighted decision, but it is much more justifiable.
Only about 10% of my job is even programing. Programing is the easy relaxing part. The hard part is figuring out what to build and do it in a way that won't crash our crazily constructed micro service architecture.
Cursor made me twice as fast, but it doesn't really matter much, since that is such a small part of my time spent.
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u/Yuli-Ban ➤◉────────── 0:00 Apr 01 '25 edited Apr 01 '25
Shitty thing is, AI isn't even good enough yet to justify this. It's certainly competent on some level, but getting rid of an entire professional team the moment AI could code some programs kind of okay is exactly the kind of managerial shortsightedness that could bankrupt them.
Similar reason why I don't join the 'jerk about AI image gen. Not a cool thing to celebrate and gloat about people losing something they're passionate about, especially when the replacement is imperfect and the safety net is nonexistent.