Managers are being slammed - FB, Amazon and recently Cloudflare and Coinbase.
New grads are being slammed, "because LLMs can do that work."
No new folks, no managers, and no olds. What a delightful career we've chosen for ourselves.
Are we sure some of that is just cutting costs while increasing ai spend and then falsely claiming ai replaced them? What better way to justify your ai projects and ai spend than to lay off entry level data entry people and junior devs regardless of the success of your projects.
Feels like musical chairs. We’ll see how long until it’s just a few oligarchs with their robot software teams