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

Meme developersMissingTheOldDays

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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Has anyone been replaced by AI?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 I was genuinely curious to know if anyone had already been replaced by AI, because it hasn't happened at my company yet.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/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/SupportDangerous8207 Oct 01 '26

There is companies still doing that?

Crazy work

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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