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The Dumbest Move in Tech Right Now: Laying Off Developers Because of AI (ppaolo.substack.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (13 children)

And it's intentional. Lay off the workers. Implement AI Slop. Slop does sloppy work. Hire back workers as Temps or Contractors. No benefits. Lower pay.

Like all of Capitalism. It's a fucking scam. A conjob. A new innovation in fucking over workers. (Ironically the only "innovation" ever directly produced by Capitalism)

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I remember when everyone was saying that companies would need programmers and that every kid should learn programming. Now I realize that companies were promoting that idea so they're be a surplus of programmers competing with each other and companies could underpay and swap out workers quickly.