With AI, this assumption is proving false day by day. Critical resources have been let go by my employer in the hope of matching their contributions with junior/fresh engineers + AI. I have heard similar stories from friends too.
However, I am yet to hear a real life instance of a company walking back and rehiring - something that I keep reading in news.
www.fox2detroit.com/news/ford-ai-engineering-challenges-rehiring.amp (Sorry for fox link, the other one I have is paywalled)
I personally know people affected by this, they were let got and last week they got offers to fix a bunch of stuff that AI did and didn’t do
Thanks. This is one of the news articles I had in mind while writing my original comment.
Survivorship bias i suspect, the company needs to fuck up big enough for it to be worth noting, survive that fuck-up and then admit enough wrongdoing (fiscally, if nothing else) to be able to be in the situation where a story like that would come out.
I think we’ll hear more over time, but as a thing that happened in the past.
Some companies might not survive to rehire, some might only just survive and rehiring isn’t on the cards.
Some might limp forwards and work through without rehires.
Is your employer by chance hiring for junior/fresh engineers who won’t use AI, or is using AI one of the job requirements?
No. They actually have an interview round where the candidate is given access to a coding agent and a problem to solve.
this is hilarious
this whole practice is going to age like shit
watching companies fail because they thought ai would work is lol
no industry with half a brain thinks ai is going to replace their top workers
as to having an example of real life regret look up ford
Interesting. We laid off all of our junior engineers, and only kept senior people who are now expected to use AI for junior engineer tasks, then review it all and fix it all. Would be easier for me to just write it all myself rather than babysit some AI and argue with it when it fucks up.
I do not envy the people who will have to maintain that giant ball of vibe-coded shit, assuming the company still exists in the future after that mess inevitably blows up spectacularly.
Me showing up late to work because I’ve lost my spirit and can no longer motivate myself to excelling up the career path I dreamed so hard to enter.
I feel you, dude. Sometimes we need to go herd sheep for a year or two. It really makes you appreciate how intelligent the idiots we have to deal with at work are.
Me showing up to work knowing they’re short staffed and refuse to hire other people to cut down costs
Never underestimate the stupidity of management…
I wasn’t doing anything wrong, but I worked my ass off and took on projects no one else in my company could. They let me go anyways. I found out through people remaining that they had a couple really big contracts come up after that that they really wanted to take but my old manager(who argued against letting me go) told them there was no way they could take them because I was the only one that could’ve handled them. Few salves are as comforting as the schadenfreude of watching your old company fail in a way you could’ve prevented had they not fired you. Was a literal lynch pin and they pulled me.
I have 7+ AI agentic agents doing work for over 30+ people. All of these workflows are designed by me. If I don’t show up to a meeting because I need a break, they can’t do anything. Because if I ever left, they are fucked.
Honestly I rather they let me hire some human employees so I can train some of them. This entire company infrastructure lives and dies by me.
Yeah, no other human can write prompts to produce code not even you know the inner workings of.
Fuck off prompt monkey
the dude who made the song code monkey needs to update it
Jonathan Coulton! And yes he does lol
make it insulting because i’m sure as a creative just loves ai
Where have you been for the last three years?
Dude makes an account, waits three years to use it, and… every comment is glorifying AI.
Hmmm
If their company relies on the output of a bunch of “agentic agents” then it sounds like they’re fucked regardless.
