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theK • yesterday at 11:42 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> for software people, being perpetually devalued is pretty novel

Hadn't really realized this is happening. Is it? Actually my experience right now is the exact opposite.


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swiftcoder • today at 6:57 PM

> Hadn't really realized this is happening. Is it?

Several rounds of layoffs in BigTech recently - for example, Microsoft is currently giving "Voluntary Exit Offers" to 60,000+ folks.

That and a general air that management is starting to think that LLMs can do the jobs of expensive engineers...