>AI isn't replacing software engineersIs this true or is this cope? "Coincidentally" The layoffs started accelerating after ChatGPT was released to the public.
>>109254417It’s a cope. Codetrans are being replaced and executed in masseThe latest cope is that ai is a bubble and it’s mostly spammed by redditors and trans "people"Ai is here to stay and vibeGODS are going to inherit the earth
>>109254417Overhiring has been an issue for tech companies, and you better correct for it at some point. You can play this a few ways:> say nothingEmployee number go down without explanation? Investors will think the company is circling the drain> admit you're correcting for overhiringInvestors will realize the company overhired, making management look incompetent> claim "ai" (bs marketing term for llms) has made you not need these ppl anymoreNow you look hip and efficient
Bruh I'm solving 200 year old math problems by myself and replacing everyone I could ever need with a self learning ai system im building myself making other ai make it for me until it runs by itself it's ogre
My company fired all devs except me. I'm only still part of this company because I know the CEO for over 10 years.There were 20 people, over half of them in India, now it's just 5 guys who know each other and the domain and 1 HR woman. Everyone is vibe coding now, including the HR girl.
>>109254417I was replaced by AI. Master's graduate in CS (with honors) from top 3 uni in my europoor country. Have been SWE for 4 years. In the beginning of 2026 I was replaced by AI. Now I'm a janitor with minimum wage. It's over for me. My life is completely destroyed. I loved computers and mathematics, but the reality turned out to bee to cruel for me. Probably I will commit suicide in forseeable future.
It's true that they're hiring people again now? Imo if you agree to go back to work for GAYMMAN after they've spat in your face, you're the ultimate wagecuck
>>109255457>It's true that they're hiring people again now?No, they don't. 2026 will be a record year (except maybe dotcom crash) for layoffs in the industry.AI is real. It's time to pivot to another industries and pivot fast.
>>109255489what would you suggest for an autist who is scared to go outside, be around people, or do most things and only knows software engineering.
>>109255268Did you ever actually need those 20 jeets? 5 devs who know what they are doing outperformed 20 code monkeys even before ai
It's not quite there yet but the writing is on the wall. If you take a couple math classes you might be able to get a math degree and have more pivot options (finance, etc). I took one C class in college and i could use AI to code pretty much whatever I want using prompts and iterative testing. I can't imagine what it will look like in a year or two
>>109255457My employer is hiring again. Layoffs were last year Q4A.
>>109254417>software engineersnope>jeet codemonkeysyou'd think these guys would be replaced, but they're being mass hired anyway lol. wtf?i think it's mostly a myriad of economical reasons hiring slowed down. AI might be related actually, since venture capital and investors moved all their cashbags from saas and etc to ai. + broader economical reasons.If you fell for doomerism shit, take a step back and look how many software engineers there are worldwide, that number is in 10s of millions and didn't contract much over years of ai. if it was actually replacing people it would be much more catastrophic in job market than a mere slowdown.you can also infer from this that productivity gains are fairly modest in enterprise environment or get set back by other tradeoffs/bottlenecks. None of that 10x shit is real
>>109256817I want to see the prompt for this so bad
It's not replacing engineers for now, but hiring for juniors has fallen off a cliff for sure.I suspect it's less they they feel they don't need them anymore, but instead that it's now 100x harder and more risky for recruiters since every college grad now has a "perfect" resume and Github repo thanks to LLMs
>>109257549Without an immediate turn around on how we're treating the junior situation, we're going to hit a real hard brick fucking wall in about 10-15 years where talent pools dry up.It's a great day to be a line man running physical cables and shit because AI ain't going to be replacing infrastructure workers for a good long while if at all, but if you're software orientated good luck. It's going to be a messy decade.
>>109257683>we're going to hit a real hard brick fucking wall in about 10-15 years where talent pools dry upby that time there won't be any "tech" and r&d in the US and Europe. Everything will be outsourced to India. We don't need cs gradudates anymore. I don't know why people are still ready to spend 4-6 years in university for CS degree epsecially in the US where you need to pay shitloads of money for a useless piece of paper.>>109257683>man running physical cablesSysadmins jobs are disappeared after cloud boom. Literally everything is in aws, azure, gcp. Bare metal servers are quite rare right now. Beign a line man? That's quite shitty job with latinos and niggers, at least in the US. Low paid, sometimes dangerous. And it's barely related to tech.
>>109254417AI is replacing devs. It's called trickle down economics. Instead of paying taxes, tech companies used to hire 80,000 people to do nothing. Now they can build datacenters instead of paying taxes or hiring people.
>>109254417>The layoffs started accelerating after ChatGPT was released to the public.Thats when the zero interest-rate policy stopped, there was no real punishment for overhiring and overextending up until that point.
