Re:Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything
by renegade-otter on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @10:37AM
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Especially since the zero-interest bonanza led to over-hiring of resume-driven developers. Half of AWS is torching energy by runnning some bloat that should not even be there.
Re:Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything
by sumoboy on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @10:49AM
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I don't think companies realize AI is not free. A 100+ devs, openai, anthropic, gemini API costs, the hidden overhead of costs not spoken about.
Too much speculation that productivity will increase substantially, especially when a majority of companies IT is just so broken and archaic.
This is the only current threat. The time you save as a developer using AI on mundane stuff will get filled by something else, possibly more mundane stuff.
A small company with only 2-5 Seniors may not be able to drop anyone. A company with 100 seniors might be able to drop 5-10 of them total, spread across each team.
The first cuts will come at scaled companies. However, it's difficult to detect if companies are cutting people just to save money or if they are actually realizing any productivity gains from AI at this point.