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Re:Ask HN: AI Replacing Engineers – Firsthand Stories? by jamil7 on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @10:29AM (#43833184)
This is kind of my take as well, most places I've worked at including the current place I work have more work than the team can get done. Features and fixes get cut or depriorised all the time to try release at a reasonable cadence. If the product you're selling is software then to me it makes sense that you'd not cut anyone from a software engineering team if your margins suddenly get better via LLM productivity gains. Rather you can argue to even increase a team size because increased velocity is a competitive advantage. On the other hand if you work somewhere where software is not the end product but a support function, you might be seen as a cost centre in which LLM productivity gains could be seen as a means of freezing hiring or reducing headcount.

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