Is there actually an epidemic of firing programmers for AI? Based on the companies/people I know, I wouldn't have thought so.
I've heard of many companies encouraging their engineers to use LLM-backed tools like Cursor or just Copilot, a (small!) number that have made these kinds of tools mandatory (what "mandatory" means is unclear), and many companies laying people off because money is tight.
But I haven't heard of anybody who was laid off b/c the other engineers were so much more productive w/ AI that they decided to downsize the team, let alone replace a team entirely.
Is this just my bubble? Mostly Bay Area companies, mostly in the small-to-mid range w/ a couple FAANG.
I've heard of many companies encouraging their engineers to use LLM-backed tools like Cursor or just Copilot, a (small!) number that have made these kinds of tools mandatory (what "mandatory" means is unclear), and many companies laying people off because money is tight.
But I haven't heard of anybody who was laid off b/c the other engineers were so much more productive w/ AI that they decided to downsize the team, let alone replace a team entirely.
Is this just my bubble? Mostly Bay Area companies, mostly in the small-to-mid range w/ a couple FAANG.