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With AI, this assumption is proving false day by day. Critical resources have been let go by my employer in the hope of matching their contributions with junior/fresh engineers + AI. I have heard similar stories from friends too.
However, I am yet to hear a real life instance of a company walking back and rehiring - something that I keep reading in news.
I do not envy the people who will have to maintain that giant ball of vibe-coded shit, assuming the company still exists in the future after that mess inevitably blows up spectacularly.
Survivorship bias i suspect, the company needs to fuck up big enough for it to be worth noting, survive that fuck-up and then admit enough wrongdoing (fiscally, if nothing else) to be able to be in the situation where a story like that would come out.
I think we'll hear more over time, but as a thing that happened in the past.
Some companies might not survive to rehire, some might only just survive and rehiring isn't on the cards.
Some might limp forwards and work through without rehires.
www.fox2detroit.com/news/ford-ai-engineering-challenges-rehiring.amp (Sorry for fox link, the other one I have is paywalled)
I personally know people affected by this, they were let got and last week they got offers to fix a bunch of stuff that AI did and didn't do
Thanks. This is one of the news articles I had in mind while writing my original comment.
That was a real life instance.
watching companies fail because they thought ai would work is lol
no industry with half a brain thinks ai is going to replace their top workers
as to having an example of real life regret look up ford
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgrkd41n2v9o
Is your employer by chance hiring for junior/fresh engineers who won't use AI, or is using AI one of the job requirements?
No. They actually have an interview round where the candidate is given access to a coding agent and a problem to solve.
this is hilarious
this whole practice is going to age like shit
Interesting. We laid off all of our junior engineers, and only kept senior people who are now expected to use AI for junior engineer tasks, then review it all and fix it all. Would be easier for me to just write it all myself rather than babysit some AI and argue with it when it fucks up.