Re: Re: Screaming into the vo
By: Utopian Galt to Nightfox on Thu Jan 01 2026 05:31 pm

I am wondering if the AI industry is screwing over so many of the tech industry employees.

I don't think so.

As far as I see around me, AI tooling is a lesser threat to Western developers than managers outsourcing work to Asia. Meaning, I see developers use AI to produce boilerplate and occasional unit tests, and that's about it. AI is no more of a threat (as of now) than Stack Overflow is.

I suspect a lot of the layoffs we are seeing are due to corporations adjusting to the fact their budgets are very badly balanced and are using the AI excuse for PR purposes for the most part.


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