AI obsolescence is “coming for basically everyone in due time,” says one engineer who went from earning $150k to being locked out of the workforce for over a year.
I also have a job in that neighborhood and I could not be replaced by AI. I’m sympathetic to him in the sense that this is a shitty time to be looking for work for a number of reasons, but it seems in the realm of possibility that this guy is a shitty developer who made bank of the fact that for a while companies were desperate for anyone to increase IT headcount, and now finds himself unable to compete with the shitty output of AI.
I’ve 100% worked with developers worse than AI, but not many and if it were up to me they would be retrained into some other career where they can make more of a contribution.
You want to blame it on AI CTS scanning? Yep. Totally believable. AI generated technical questions? Sure.
But because AI is coding circles around you? Bruh…
I also have a job in that neighborhood and I could not be replaced by AI. I’m sympathetic to him in the sense that this is a shitty time to be looking for work for a number of reasons, but it seems in the realm of possibility that this guy is a shitty developer who made bank of the fact that for a while companies were desperate for anyone to increase IT headcount, and now finds himself unable to compete with the shitty output of AI.
I’ve 100% worked with developers worse than AI, but not many and if it were up to me they would be retrained into some other career where they can make more of a contribution.
You want to blame it on AI CTS scanning? Yep. Totally believable. AI generated technical questions? Sure.
But because AI is coding circles around you? Bruh…
I think it’s less likely this has anything to do with skill, and more likely this is a company looking for an excuse to cut a highly paid position.