So I’m seeing a bunch of people on LinkedIn saying, “Oh, the layoffs happened because AI is writing everyone’s code.”
Are you guys serious? Have you ever written a line of code in your life?
This kind of take only makes you look more out of touch.
Do you really think we were waking up like, “Oh, I guess there’s nothing to do today because AI wrote all my code. Might as well chill and do nothing.”
No. We were all doing real work.
Every single one of the 7,000 people who got laid off yesterday had a real job. We woke up with active projects, with tasks in progress - and then everything was suddenly cut.
Not even our managers knew. Not even their managers knew. There was no warning. No planning. No transition.
This isn’t about AI. This is a puppet show to drive stock prices up and down.
Any company claiming AI is writing all the code now is straight-up lying to you. AI can help us write code - sure - but it’s nowhere near the point where it can replace a software engineer, let alone 7,000 of us.
Don’t be d-mb.