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The Dumbest Move in Tech: Laying Off Developers Because of AI

3 点作者 paolop19 天前

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vaidhy19 天前
Paolo - I read your article, but I disagree with a few fundamental assumptions. 1. There is an implicit assumption that small changes in product behavior is a small change in the underlying code. 2. AI will increase productivity by a huge amount for production ready code. 3. Developers spend all the time coding.<p>I will take the last one first. When I was managing large teams, my assumption is that a developer spends about 25% of the time actually coding. Let us say, AI makes them 50% more productive. So, you got a real gain of 12.5%. It is nowhere as huge as you put on your chart.<p>AI coding seems really great for one-off prototypes or some small, well-defined pieces, but they are not ready for production code. Multiple research papers have found AI code to be less secure, more buggy etc and they hinder rather than help experienced developers. So, you are going to lose even more of the hypothetical 12.5% gain here.<p>Finally, your post seems to say that the developers are not prioritizing your work, not that they are not working. Even if they are more productive, there is still no guarantee your feature will get prioritized.<p>The solution to your stated problem seem to be inability to get your work prioritized and nothing to do with AI or developer productivity.
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paolop19 天前
Are companies using AI just to justify trimming the fat after years of overhiring and allowing Hooli-style jobs for people like Big Head? Otherwise, I feel like I’m missing something—why lay off developers now, just as AI is finally making them more productive, with so much software still needing to be maintained, improved, and rebuilt?
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duxup19 天前
Every story I read about this happening is like a LinkedIn fairy tale without any actual details.<p>I feel like executives find it useful to pad their resume &#x2F; PR and signal how “with it” they are even if the layoffs are really about something else.
almosthere19 天前
The vast majority of tech layoffs are driven by outsourcing to other countries, not to AI.
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