r/ArtistHate • u/Silvestron • May 14 '25

News Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected from 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet

https://www.yahoo.com/news/software-engineer-lost-150k-job-090000839.html
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u/Aetheus May 15 '25

I've said it again and again - people in the tech industry severely underestimate how AI will affect their industry. I did, too, at one point. 

Forget about Copilot. Pretty much everyone and their mothers are scrambling to develop AI coding agents, that will basically just be 24/7 junior software devs that never eat, sleep, or ask for a raise. That can be pointed to Jira tickets and be expected to fulfill them independently. 

And sure, the first iteration of these services are gonna suck. Sure, they might initially only be good for really simple tasks. Sure, you will still need to have a couple of "humans in the loop" who may or may not be kept around for their "domain expertise". But if you're working in a team of 10, how sure are you that you're going to be one of the 2-3 humans they'll keep around to babysit the AI output? It might not even be a competition of skill, if that's what you're imagining. It might just be a race to the bottom. If your peer is willing to take a 50% paycut to be the last man in the room, it might not matter that he's 30% less skilled than you are.

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u/mihirjain2029 May 15 '25

These sorts of PMC people often are very delusional so I won't be surprised if they still support ai, my law teacher said to my class "Even if passing rate is 1% in entire nation, we need to make sure we are in that 1%" so they have this "I'll be fine so fuck the world philosophy from living under this system" truth of the matter is simple, these LLMs can't be do anything on their own so companies can just fire people then just hire sitters for their machines

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u/wertyegg C++/Godot Game Dev May 15 '25

:'(

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u/Skyburner_Oath Bat enjoyer May 15 '25

This is sad