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The Dumbest Move in Tech Right Now: Laying Off Developers Because of AI (ppaolo.substack.com)
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[–] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I remember when everyone was saying that companies would need programmers and that every kid should learn programming. Now I realize that companies were promoting that idea so they're be a surplus of programmers competing with each other and companies could underpay and swap out workers quickly.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah obviously. Whenever a company says "we can't get enough X workers" they implicitly mean "at the price we want to pay".

    But that doesn't mean they were wrong. Programming is still an amazingly well paying and low stress career. Being replaced by AI is a little worrying, but I think by the time AI is good enough to really replace programmers, it will also be able to replace most white collar jobs - HR, finance, etc. - and society will have bigger problems.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I would not market an industry well know for burnouts as "low stress" though.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    The games programming industry is high stress, but apart from that it isn't. I don't think it's known for burnouts any more than any other industry.

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