[xtracto]

Haven't you seen all the layoffs? Ive been subscribed to r/layoffs for 5+ years, and since a couple of months ago, it's been crazy noisy.

My hypothesis is that companies dont want to offer cheaper nor better services. Only want to cut costs and keep the revenue for investors.

I other news, TQQQ is pretty high!

[adrithmetiqa]

Subscribers will not enable these companies to make their money back. The only way is for them to eat the economy itself

[hmaxwell]

I'm wondering whether the layoffs are partly targeting people who haven't adapted to using AI tools, particularly those who are openly dismissive of AI-assisted work.

[dieortin]

That’s like firing someone because he uses vim instead of VSCode. Who cares about the tools someone uses if he still does his job well?

[morserer]

Because the job itself has now changed, and they haven't. Their output speed might have been eclipsed by that of the engineers who efficiently adopted the new tooling.

Where I work, the power dynamics have shifted wildly. There are a number of senior engineers who refuse to touch the stuff, and as a result, they can barely keep up with their peers. Some of our juniors are now running laps around them.

When a stranger to your craft can now teach themselves what you know, how to do your job, and even how to automate your tasks in the span of the same workday as you, all while reliably being able to gauge the innacuracy of the output they're reading, how much longer do you really hold relevance?

[jazzyjackson]

How do you mean "barely keep up" and "running laps around them" ?

Are the juniors increasing economic productivity or just pushing lines of code?

</retired from being measured against a random number generator>

[nly]

They aren't teaching themselves anything though are they, they are basically getting AI to do their work for them.

[duskdozer]

Because the job changed out from under them - it's now to use AI as much as possible and generate so much and so convoluted content that humans have no chance of keeping up the "velocity" without being entirely dependent on it.