alt Hacker NewsWell that's certainly and obviously how it's working at the moment in the software industry.
We're in the transition between traditional coding jobs and agentic managers (or something like that)
Well that's certainly and obviously how it's working at the moment in the software industry.
We're in the transition between traditional coding jobs and agentic managers (or something like that)
It's kind of inexplicable though, unless AI being the reason for layoffs is a lie, because it's true that historically there has always been way more demand for software than people who can make it (hence the decades of rising salaries relative to other professions).
It seems like too much of a coincidence that the AI got good enough to replace humans at exactly the same time that humans in general don't need as much software made.