Generated by Codex with GPT-5
2026: the death of AI and mass hiring of software engineers (Blind)
- foodi (Google): AI already made coding dead, it’s not a hoax.
- CookedSwe (Verizon): It’s nice to see cope sometimes after all the doomerism so thank you
January layoffs just leaked. Here are the companies. (Blind)
- redis (Meta): No Meta. Fake list.
- didosf (Block): Warn filings do not come before internal communications.
Claude 5=Nuclear bomb (Blind)
- AmaRosta (Google): The amount of COPE in the comments AI is gonna destroy the industry, and massive layoffs are gonna happen in 2026 coz of it.
- TheRealBoz (Meta): Even when using Claude to write most code, it hasn’t made people much faster. It also can’t function without a SWE. Even if the next model makes less mistakes and has a bigger context, still wont change the real bottlenecks.
Tech industry lays off nearly 80,000 employees in the first quarter of 2026 — almost 50% of affected positions cut due to AI (r/technology)
- realteamme: # almost 50% of affected positions CLAIMED TO BE cut due to AI
- DarthJDP: Due to failing data center investments sucking up cashflow and income. Economy is terrible due to tariffs, war, and other mismanagement. AI is replacing exactly no one. Slop is replacing workers and delivering worse results.