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Coinbase lays off 14% (Blind)
- 0003wnzl (Walt Disney): " We’ll also be experimenting with reduced pod sizes, including “one person teams” with engineers, designers, and product managers all in one role." DAMMMMMM
- oasis2025 (Microsoft): isn’t this the same CEO who said every new hire needs to be approved by him and should have an extraordinary talent like medals and shit?
- TBjy63 (Amazon): Coinbase should be a money printer. Why do they need to lay people off?
I say 3 years before SWEs have NO JOB lol (Blind)
- NYXa24: If SWEs have no job, then someone nontechnical can 1 shot prompt software. If that happens, AGI has already been achieved and nobody will have a job. Before AGI is achieved, and while AI gets better, plenty of SWEs will be needed. Much less than before, yes, but plenty because you can’t 1 shot prompt software. If you’re at a point where you think all you’re doing is pressing enter and agreeing with every Claude Code prompt, then unfortunately you’re one of the SWEs the market is trying to phase out - you’re not needed.
- oFdS82 (Google): OP is correct. I’m a non swe and I’ve had SWEs say to me “wait wtf you built THAT??!” Like they are seriously impressed lol. I can just do shit that takes teams of 20 engineers weeks. Is it production grade? No idea, probably not. Doesn’t matter. Speed is king. There are people who say “oh, AI will create an abundance of jobs. One engineer does the job of ten so instead of laying off the 9 let’s just assign them to other projects” 😂 this is false. They will 💯 get laid off in the guise of AI.
- lkgukg (Rubrik): Y’all are paranoid. Short term the total number of jobs will go down. Long term it will come back to normal. Cost of software will go down. Companies will make more products, more engineers will be needed to make more products. 5 engineers making V1 of a product goes down to 1 engineer. Scale the math. Multiply total number of products. Things will get more competitive making our lives painful.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says booing graduates will shape AI’s future — and live with its consequences (r/technology)
- mechy84: Boo this man!
- your_catfish_friend: This headline is very confusingly-worded. The graduates are getting booed, which shapes AI’s future? Or the graduates are booing themselves?
- 71-HourAhmed: “I have bet the entire company on this technology. My career, reputation, and history’s view of my tenure as CEO are inextricably linked to AI. You should embrace it. You’re making me look bad!”
99% of CEOs Expect AI-Driven Layoffs in the Next Two Years (r/technology)
- skccsk: Interesting that the CEO role continues to be unreplaceable by AI according to CEOs.
- According_Jeweler404: 99% of CEOs Expect to Use AI as Smokescreen for Layoffs in the Next Two Years
- Belyal: 9 out of 10 CEOs also admit that AI driven efforts have yielded no added gains to productivity…
Chrome proposes new APIs: Declarative partial updates (r/programming)
- Even_Scheme_3080: so Chrome is basically proposing we do less JavaScript to update the DOM — and somehow this is controversial
- sojuz151: A really clear explanation and a demo that shows why would we even need this. Anything that can be used to replace Javascript is a win for me
- Lachee: I hate google just comes up with new standards and now it’s up to everyone to catch up. It’s IE all over again
Jira IS Turing-complete (r/programming)
- Popular-Awareness262: jira workflows can simulate a turing machine but god forbid you need to transition an issue back one step lmao
- gimmeslack12: Wait, this isn’t the right epic. You need to put this in a story and then clone it into the current sprint. Make sure you set velocity points and to use the appropriate team so that it doesn’t go to the backlog. Also make sure that the infra members are added as watchers and assign the ticket to on-call. Make sure they’re tasks and not bugs.
- ChemTechGuy: I always like these posts, well done. Knowing the community, someone will get Doom to run on jira in a couple weeks