Hi,
most of the companies have now given AI tools to their employees, these include claude code, cursor and github copilot. This is supposed to be the testing period to see how will things turn out by using AI.
But now its almost a year, and employers will want to see the return from their investment in AI tools.
most devs have still not adopted cloud coding agents for one reason or the other. Layoff number is normal in non-VC funded companies, since they have no pressure to show AI working for employees.
But this has to converge somewhere, are returns from AI tools enough to justify the headcount reduction except forcefully showing it to investors?
> >layoff developers
for now we are not sure what is gonna happen. Big tech is surely reducing headcount to invest more in AI. but with recent downtime of github/AWS and them not blaming AI but humans, says a lot about that they will go to any extent to prove AI is bringing value enough to fire human engineers.
At this point, you can't convince me that this is not, in fact, some shadow HR big brain play just to keep HR jobs with a constant layoff/rehiring cycle
HR jobs aren't gonna get automated by AI as well? AI is a force multiplier, now the HR department only needs to be half the size it was to support the same number of people.
