https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPreoSDzCqs>be meta swe>years ago: "ai replacing engineers? lmao cope, just a productivity tool">2025-2026: every company suddenly cutting tens of thousands of eng jobs>teams that needed 10 people now run with 2 + chatgpt>entry-level hiring dead, new cs grads unemployment almost double other majors>execs openly bragging on earnings calls about how many jobs their ai tools killed>wall street claps like seals every time someone says "ai efficiency"then the plot twist starts>ford has to rehire hundreds of experienced engineers because the automated shit couldn't catch quality problems>commonwealth bank of australia throws out their ai voice system after complaints pile up and brings humans back>ibm tries to ai most of hr, the 5% it fucks up causes so much damage they triple new hiring later>fintech ceo publicly boasts about replacing hundreds of support staff with ai... then quietly reintroduces humans with zero media fanfare>surveys show over half the leaders who made those ai cuts now admit they were wrong>a third end up rehiring the same roles at higher salaries most companies that went all-in on ai still showing zero tangible roi>new job category appears: reviewing, correcting, and taking responsibility for ai output>realization hits>ai really does eat the repetitive, well-defined coding work>but it constantly chokes on architecture decisions, subtle bugs, and actual judgment>the engineers getting rehired for big money aren't the ones who avoided ai>they're the ones who can tell when the model is full of shit and own the outcomebe the guy who reviews the ai code and makes the hard calls>or be the junior writing the same boilerplate patterns that now take 30 secondsChoose wiselyHoly fucking shit... it's fucking over for Software Enginners....
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