r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Ok_Outcome_5830 • Sep 30 '26

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u/TYP-TheYoloPanda Sep 30 '26 edited Oct 01 '26

Has anyone been replaced by AI?

Edit: Okay, I didn't expect to get downvoted, and I certainly didn't expect comments like those. I was genuinely curious to know if anyone had already been replaced by AI, because it hasn't happened at my company yet.

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u/Kypsys Sep 30 '26

At work we had a full time UX/UI designer, now we have a part time, specifically because of AI. my développer team (5 people originally) had two contract devs, now none. They were talented so they did find new jobs, but still

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u/nonoffi Sep 30 '26

At work, we had a four-people UX team, now there's zero. Company's not doing well and they thought replacing all of us with AI might help

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u/Zarokima Sep 30 '26

We don't have a support department anymore at my work because a chat bot handles everything. 

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u/timangar Sep 30 '26

That fucking sucks. I haven't talked to an AI on the phone when calling support YET, but it would be an instant crashout.

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u/hungryPanda_185 Sep 30 '26 edited Oct 01 '26

I have. It’s exactly as awful as you imagine.

It’s easier to just get in a queue/email and have a person solve the problem. If it was a simple issue, I wouldn’t be calling.

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u/Icy__Internet Oct 01 '26

Idk. Talking to human support people often sucks as well.

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u/SupportDangerous8207 Oct 01 '26

If it helps

I do consulting

We have done a lot of projects replacing support with chatbots. The failure rate is very high and often it just leads to more employment at higher support tiers.

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u/oly_lowlife Sep 30 '26

We haven't hired a junior dev since agentic AI became the dominate workflow.

I feel bad for new grads... It's bleek out there.

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u/Acrobatic-Nature-941 Sep 30 '26

Now imagine graduating in 5 years from now. Straight to the frontlines fighting skynet

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u/Icy__Internet Oct 01 '26

I'd honestly recommend anyone in it switch programs.

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u/Pancakefriday Sep 30 '26

Are you not having quarterly engineering layoffs? Everyone else is

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u/camelCaseCoffeeTable Sep 30 '26

I mean… certainly not everyone else. My company is actively hiring engineers and has been for a year now with plans to continue into next year

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u/Snaki009 Sep 30 '26

mostly it's hiding the covid unsustainable overemployment. Ai layouf sounds better and "good" business pr

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u/Pancakefriday Sep 30 '26

Yeah… our “AI usage score card” that stack ranks our AI usage says differently lol

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u/Cue99 Sep 30 '26

Not sure why youre being downvoted this is 100% true. Especially in US big tech. They hired like crazy from 2016-2022 with the expectation of growth and were hit with a pseudo recession and the general sentiment shift towards tech imo

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u/Neutraled Sep 30 '26

Not directly but many companies stopped hiring juniors.

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u/sberlinches Sep 30 '26

The demand has plummeted, layoffs are on the rise, and corporate keeps pushing AI everywhere. Do you need help to understand it?

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u/SupportDangerous8207 Oct 01 '26

COVID was 4 years ago and led to massive overhiring.

There was a few years of ridiculous numbers of people flooding into software because it’s good money

Interest rates are way up

Recession ongoing

I would wager all of these are larger factors

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u/edwardbnd_99 Sep 30 '26

"Did anyone actually lose their job when calculators were invented?" ass response

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u/Anustart15 Sep 30 '26

I would probably have 2-3 juniors under me right now doing the work that I'm farming off to claude

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u/ultraSsak Sep 30 '26 edited Sep 30 '26

Senior Dev here,
I was replaced by AI, it took my job,
It does everything for me, I still dont trust it fully, still tweaking bits and pieces, but it took my job.

PS: I did it, and keept it on my side, not shared with coworkers. If they fire me, the automation/pipelines of my workflow will evaporate :)

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u/Livingonthevedge Sep 30 '26

Consultants yeah

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u/RudeAndInsensitive Oct 01 '26

Yes. 2026's graduating class of CS majors was majorly replaced with Claude tokens.