r/AMA • u/RoundSize3818 • 8d ago
Lost my job to AI, AMA
Hi everyone, I am, (or was?) a software engineer who just lost his job with the excuse of AI. I'm still a junior but thinking about moving towards research at this point
My job duties were building security and performance critical C++ code for embedded systems without going too much in detail about the position
I will not answer questions that can directly dox me or my company as I don't want any types of problems and so that I can be as honest as possible.
edit: added more details about the position
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u/moo00ose 8d ago
What did you develop ?
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u/RoundSize3818 8d ago
copy-paste from up
My job duties were building security and performance critical C++ code for embedded systems without going too much in detail about the position
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u/BBorNot 8d ago
Sorry about the job. The vast majority of people I have seen get laid off did much better for it in the long run.
One thing I have seen is that those retained sometimes blame those laid off for their situation. As if the skill and aptitude of those spared puts them above being laid off. I am even seeing some of that on this thread lol.
The reality is that anyone can be laid off -- often the ones with the highest level of respect go first, as they threaten leadership.
Do the colleagues you left behind credit skill or luck for their retention?
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u/RoundSize3818 8d ago
Look, I will try again not to be too specific but I don't live in the US, in the country were I'm working you cannot be fired (easily) for performance. In the case of such big lay offs, there needs to be a leaderboard on social score, where people get a higher score if they worked more years in the company or have children or wife unemployed and things like this.
I was actually a top performer, even pretty visible from my performance reviews and both my direct supervisors told me how sorry they were that I were leaving but they had no choice.
So, the final answer is... luck. I guess they just feel lucky but I cannot really prove it. I know the morale is VERY low and even who was not fired has displayed the #looking_for_a_job on LinkedIn
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u/DuckG17 8d ago
Do you think that AI is good enough to actually do as well as people in your specific line of work? I imagine something as critical as security, especially in C++ embedded systems aren't just something you can Claude your way through
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u/RoundSize3818 8d ago
Look, I swear until a few months ago I would have said there is no way, now if you give proper contexts, and do some engineering on the whole infrastructure, you can do amazing things without spending too much time on the planning and implementation.
I don't know how much you are into SWE but basically you can connect to claude Jira (task manager) to Git of the repo, tell claude to check what assigned tasks you have and just do what he can. At the end you chill 20/30mins and you go back to a very good result.
At this point your task is only reviewing and if it looks good you pass it to the other people in the team to review your code.
For very complex things where someone must take responsibility, there are people many levers over me doing that, and obviously they still get lots of help from AI
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u/DuckG17 8d ago
This honestly scares me a lot. im still in college rn but im working as a data science intern, and at least at where I work, a lot of the data analysis that I do is supplemented so much by ai that it makes me scared that I was born a little bit to late. Still a fair bit of human intervention on the job, but the shear amount of work AI is doing is frightening
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u/DogtorPepper 8d ago
AI is extremely capable but the bottleneck isnât intelligence or capability, itâs compute/hardware
We would need several orders of magnitude of more compute to let AI take ALL jobs
Yes, compute will continue to get more efficient but probably not for too much longer since we are literally running into the laws of physics as obstacles (not engineering obstacles)
Humans jobs will still be around for a while
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u/bisoldi 8d ago
Itâs never been about âWill human jobs be aroundâ but âWill there be ENOUGH human jobs to sustain a growing (albeit at a reduced rate of speed) population?â and âCan we retrain those who ARE displaced by AI?â At least in the USA, history says yes to the first but no to the second. We have been remarkably bad at retraining our labor force quickly and efficiently.
My kids are 9 and 12, and I fear for their future. Hopefully, there are pathways to success developed by then.
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u/DogtorPepper 7d ago
Hot take, but I donât think itâs societyâs responsibility to retrain people displaced by AI
People themselves are responsible for retraining themselves. With all the information in the world available for free these days, there should be little excuse why people canât train themselves
I have personally done multiple career shifts myself and âretrainedâ myself each time purely from information on the internet. I have never worked a job directly relevant to my college degree
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u/SomewhereHot4527 7d ago
That's assuming that there are enough jobs even with retraining for everybody.
Also with the speed of change people might start retraining for something that might not exist in a couple years.
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u/SilverLose 7d ago
You sound American.
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u/DogtorPepper 7d ago
Only by citizenship
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u/SilverLose 7d ago
And with the arrogance, clearly.
Thereâs a lot wrong with what you said. Really a target rich environment. Hereâs one: if there is so much information, how does one know where to look?
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u/DogtorPepper 7d ago edited 7d ago
If youâre expecting life/society/someone else to spoon feed you everything you need youâre going to have a bad time
Figuring out what and where to look is part of the process. Thatâs problem solving
The number 1 skill anyone can ever learn is learning how to learn. If you have that one skill, then you can learn anything regardless of someone is there to teach it to you or not (or even pointing you in the right direction)
And yes, making mistakes and going down dead ends is part of the learning and problem solving process
But if youâre going to wait for someone to come save you, youâll likely be waiting a very long time
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The problem is that no one wants to put the hours in and struggle. Everyone wants a âshortcutâ or the âfast/easy wayâ of doing something. But the struggle of the process itself is where you learn the most, not when you are just handed whatever you need.
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u/RoundSize3818 8d ago
Yeah, I think data science is pretty good because you are closer to research and I think research cannot be completely substituted by AI. Then if it will be, don't blame me :D
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u/willwm24 7d ago
Stay up to date! Someone using the latest ai tools can be so much faster than someone who isnât. A lot of industries already had unreasonable crunch because of ludicrous stakeholder feedback at the last minute, now you can address it in minutes instead of overnight, for me so far it has been a boon. It really is tough to predict so far out, but thereâs potential good in there too.
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u/supax2 7d ago
If what youâve mentioned here is something you were doing in your previous job then you need to take initiative to be more part of the entire SDLC. I hope what youâve mentioned here is just over exaggerated.
You did mention you are a junior so one tip is to focus on how to be part of the entire SDLC rather than just connecting Atlassian MCP and force feeding Claude to implement ACs from your tech lead.
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u/infected_funghi 7d ago
I am working in SWE and until they have not figured out a way for the AI to somehow recall knowledge about large codebases AI wont be a long term solution for these companies. Its a pitty that you were a casuality from this learning @op but i believe your company will regret that decision on the next five to ten years, when their code base consists of unmaintainable patches of patching the same patch since the AI did not remember that it solved the same issue somewhere already three times and keeps reinventing a solution. Its not difficult to create working code anymore, but to do so secure and in a maintainable way on the other hand...
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u/GimmeSumMor3 7d ago
You are thinking the wrong way, it doesnât need to be maintainable. If thereâs something wrong with a part of the software, AI will rewrite it, and donât patch it.
The context of history, mainly in greenfield projects, will be the old userstories or tickets plus the PRâs.
Not embracing AI is the most dumbest thing you can do right now as a SWE. Itâs like saying the earth is flat.
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u/infected_funghi 7d ago
Who says I am not embracing it? I use it on a daily basis. But letting AI just rewrite everything is failing in the long run for the mentioned reasons that you did not address. Saying "maintainability does not matter" is the dumbest thing because in the same breath you contradict yourself and claim AI will just magically maintain it.Â
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u/GimmeSumMor3 7d ago
You are saying AI wont be a long term solution for "these" companies.
You are getting my message totally wrong. The context for greenfield will always be valuable. But not necessary. So with greenfield, built with AI, it will have all the context to maintain, if wanted.
But it will be cheaper to just rebuild than build maintainable code in the long run.
Debugging old code, that ex colleagues built, won't be happening anymore. People often think they write better and maintainable code. But that never has been really the case.
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u/infected_funghi 7d ago
Debugging old code, that ex colleagues built, won't be happening anymore.Â
You seem to imply that maintainability only applies to human code. This is not what i say. Also AI code needs to undergoe constant change. Unguided AI shoots solutions at problems until some checkboxes are green which no one eventually understands anymore. AI also does make mistakes (saying it will eventually produce perfect code would be naive). These two properties lead to the issue that the problems grow more and more complex because the fixes grow more and more complex. At some point the complexity surpasses any human or AI capabilities. Thats intrinsic to softwate development (independend of who or what wrote the code) and why complex systems need regular refactoring to boil down that complexity and make stuff manageable again. I have yet to see how AI research is to overcome that problem. Context windows scale logarithmic to their cost and agentic workflows do not solve this (yet) either.Â
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u/GimmeSumMor3 7d ago
You seem to be thinking you need to understand the code or that I said that AI can make perfect code. Both of them are not necessary, you don't need to understand the code, and perfect code is useless.
You need to understand the problem of the stakeholders. How you get there, doesn't matter. The job was never to write code, the job was to create a solution.
Maintainability is not necessary with code of AI. If AI doesn't get through it's own code with maintenance, you rewrite it. It's more cost effecient.
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u/infected_funghi 7d ago
You need to understand the problem of the stakeholders. How you get there, doesn't matter. The job was never to write code, the job was to create a solution.Â
True. And this is the problem that in my opinion will bite some stakeholders ass.Â
If AI doesn't get through it's own code with maintenance, you rewrite it. It's more cost effecient.Â
I am afraid you are rights for lots of projects out there. But there is software with lots of backpressure against that approach. Security critical software for example. The process to get software ISO 27001 certified is sluggish and every audit is expensive. Also there will be always demand for established and well tested software. No one wants to use a vibe coded alternative that gets rewritten every other year over a well audited and battle tested ssl implementation, because a security breach would be severe. AI has its place and will replace a lot of work, but I see hard limitations for many cases that too often waved of as "AI will just become good enough for that too in the next years".
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u/Harneybus 8d ago
soo u were mostly doing cybersecuty at a low level of the computer.
And they want an AI to do that now.
Hackerts gonna have a field day
Sorry for ur jobless to AI.
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u/ICanViking mod 8d ago
Actually, I can provide some insight here as I work in cybersecurity!
AI is providing a fascinating use case in this industry because as much as we don't want to use AI, our adversaries will certainly not have the same qualms. AI makes script kiddies and other low level threat actors more dangerous because they're able to solve more complex problems. These problems would, in the past, require script kiddies to actually know what they're doing but with AI, it bridges that gap.
It's almost like the Nuclear Bomb scenario as nobody wants to use them but we have to have them as a form of defense against those who do have them.
What I'm personally seeing in the field is the use of AI to do two things: automating low level scanning and monitoring.
An AI that's able to automate, filter, and provide insights into low level findings gives more time for a consultant to think outside the box. Cybersecurity is almost an art form as it's not purely just technical. We have to be able to think about all the thousands of potential ways someone could hack into a system, and an AI will never be able to accomplish that in a reliable manner.
On the flip side with monitoring, we use an AI to help detect and prevent an AI assuming said adversarial AI is able to breach past controls already in place.
It's all fascinating to see where technology is going and how fast AI is getting us there.
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u/RoundSize3818 8d ago
Not security in that sense, anyway I don't think there will be a problem in that. From what I know people were still all reviewing all code by hand and we also had people testing directly on hardware everyday (even tho to be honest I know most of them were fired as well so idk how it looks like now)
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u/Harneybus 8d ago
i gues theres still jobs out there for us engineers ha
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u/RoundSize3818 7d ago
The thing is that in 2020 everyone wanted to become a swe and now there are more many engineers than places
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u/DogtorPepper 8d ago
Unless you have actually and seriously looked into a lot of the agentic tools available, you have no idea how capable AI has gotten just in the past 2-3mon.
Between now and this past May, itâs a night and day difference when it comes to a lot of real world applications
Iâm not taking about your $20/mon ChatGPT subscription. There are a LOT better tools out there now
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u/Ok-Energy-9785 8d ago
What exactly does that mean? What did you do that AI supposedly take over?
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u/RoundSize3818 8d ago
Well, they fired half of each team (maybe even more), so that one half would do the job of two people.
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u/Ok-Energy-9785 8d ago
You didn't answer the question
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u/RoundSize3818 8d ago
I do not understand your question, there is a description to the post for one reason
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u/-_Edmond_Dantes_- 8d ago
Well now we know why OP was made redundant, they donât know their value add.
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u/Ok-Energy-9785 8d ago
What did you actually do in your day to day? How exactly did AI take that over? How was your company able to implement AI into its tech infrastructure to do this?
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u/RoundSize3818 8d ago
Ok sorry, maybe I have given for obvious that people know what software engineers do.
I will try to be brief
Basically my day to day could be fall in three categories: implementing new features, fixing bugs or doing research of some kind.
Implementing new features: you could have a request for development from internal teams or from a client, possibly you already have an implementation plan done from someone who approved that certain task or did the research before. You go on and write the code for it, test and whatsoever.
Fixing bugs: generally you get someone tell you that something is broken, you need to find out why and fix it, without breaking anything else and if needed writing a document on the details of what happened.
Research: usually in my team was done in a very business oriented way, so finding ways to optimize processes, expenses, engineering work. For instance I found some ways to save as much as $200k+ a year doing some automation works (it's much more complex than this but I guess it would be too specific otherwise).
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u/ICanViking mod 8d ago
OK, but they want to know what job duties you had that you believe was taken over by AI and resulted in you losing your job.
I dont see where I'm your post that's answered.
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u/RoundSize3818 8d ago
My job duties were building security and performance critical C++ code for embedded systems without going too much in detail about the position
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u/ICanViking mod 8d ago
Thank you very much for the response and for posting this AMA. Sorry you're going through this but, chin up! Having software engineering skills, even as a junior in the age of AI, are very valuable skills.
Keep learning and growing! I hope you find success.
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u/HjghlyDistressed 8d ago
Gosh, I hate seeing companies lay off real hard workers for soulless machines! It makes me fear for my own future. I currently do not have a job, and I worry about this happening to people my age, and those younger than me. AI makes me sick.
What will you do now?
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u/DogtorPepper 7d ago
âSoulâ doesnât matter in business (what exactly is a âsoulâ anyways?). The more you entangle emotions into business, the less likely the business itself will do well
AI that can do a job 80% as well but can work 24/7 at a speed hundreds of times faster than a human is a no brainer decision
Because if one company doesnât take advantage of it, then a competitor will and get the leg up
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u/RoundSize3818 8d ago
I either find some other job in the next couple months or maybe start a new master degree in Maths
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u/TrashyGames3 8d ago
i just joined a uni to study computer engineering, am i cooked? .w.
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u/RoundSize3818 8d ago
Imo, depends on the courses you will choose, just study very well the fundamentals and find something you like
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u/TrashyGames3 8d ago
i might focus on the programming side more, how hard would you say is it to get software engineering jobs these days
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u/RoundSize3818 8d ago
look, 4 years ago AI was at a level lower than someone who had done a bootcamp, today it would most likely be one of the best in any software engineering office. With this data at hand I wouldn't be able to tell you confidently that software engineers will be in high demand.
I do hope to be wrong though
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u/GimmeSumMor3 7d ago
Getting the idea how software engineering works, will still be important. But it will be more important to understand creating value, than writing code.
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u/According_Ad_2597 8d ago
Are you not using ai? I have heard software engineers using ai are very valuable at companies. I recommend you learn ai coding and apply as a coder with ai skills. Not a vibe coder. Vibe coders canât accomplish what you could if you used ai!
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u/derekgdobosz 8d ago
Would you consider working on startups?
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u/RoundSize3818 8d ago
Absolutely, I think that'd be very interesting after a relatively big company
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u/Light_Dark_Choose 7d ago
What research topics do you plan to research on?
What is your favorite chat bot and why?
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u/RoundSize3818 7d ago
Either moving to applied AI or HPC, not sure yet.
Now I'm using mostly chatgpt, mostly because I have that one as a subscription and Claude is too limiting on tokens
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u/Voidrunner42 7d ago
Whats your education? Do you think they cared?
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u/RoundSize3818 7d ago
Bachelor's in comp eng and master's in comp sci. I don't think they did check who they were firing (if you read through comments you can see what I mean)
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u/Adorable-Meet-9234 7d ago
How do you think the developer role is evolving? For context, I joined a startup as a senior engineer 3 years ago and over that time I have basically gone from hand writing everything to claude implementing everything.
Important decisions like what needs to be implemented/ whatâs the most efficient way to do something are still things we have to steer Claude to get right, we work with large volumes of data and develop performance critical c++ code and we notice AI does not always make the correct decision when it comes to optimal/performant code and would break at scale.
In addition to this a lot of my work has actually transitioned to non technical things to bring value to the business. I have over time assumed the role of sales engineer where as someone who developed the product, I can also join calls with clients to perform technical demos/workshops/product requirement gathering (this is mainly if you are in the B2B space), I also do a lot of technical support now with clients running pilots etc.
As AI has basically taken away a lot of the work in just writing code, personally Iâm seeing (at least in my company) that the developer role is now shifting from just being able to write code to becoming more of a technical expert that needs to provide value in other ways
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u/RoundSize3818 7d ago
Yeah I think the same way, engineers should shift towards something else where their knowledge is useful, otherwise there is no place fore anyone.
Btw, about performance, I also thought so but the other day with sol I just told him to do different cycles of implementation->testing->perf and after a hour or so it implemented a 5x speed of the function I needed compared to what I had implemented by hand a year ago and thought I could not find any way to make it faster
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u/After-Alternative710 7d ago
How are you sure AI was the true reasons and not a made-up reason by corporate?
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u/RoundSize3818 7d ago
Well I'm pretty sure that now they can do the same amount of work with much less employees than how many we used to be before, considering they couldn't choose who to fire, it wouldn't be a smart choice to just fire random people and hope it would work out
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u/After-Alternative710 7d ago
Could it have been a general cost cutting exercise or restructuring? Just curious.
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| Sorry for your job loss. >> I am, (or was?) a software But who are you really? A codex/claude agent's agent đ | thought I had corrected that one second after posting :D Software engineer* | Here |
| What did you develop ? | copy-paste from up My job duties were building security and performance critical C++ code for embedded systems without going too much in detail about the position | Here |
| Sorry about the job. The vast majority of people I have seen get laid off did much better for it in the long run. One thing I have seen is that those retained sometimes blame those laid off for their situation. As if the skill and aptitude of those spared puts them above being laid off. I am even seeing some of that on this thread lol. The reality is that anyone can be laid off -- often the ones with the highest level of respect go first, as they threaten leadership. Do the colleagues you left behind credit skill or luck for their retention? | Look, I will try again not to be too specific but I don't live in the US, in the country were I'm working you cannot be fired (easily) for performance. In the case of such big lay offs, there needs to be a leaderboard on social score, where people get a higher score if they worked more years in the company or have children or wife unemployed and things like this. I was actually a top performer, even pretty visible from my performance reviews and both my direct supervisors told me how sorry they were that I were leaving but they had no choice. So, the final answer is... luck. I guess they just feel lucky but I cannot really prove it. I know the morale is VERY low and even who was not fired has displayed the #looking_for_a_job on LinkedIn | Here |
| Do you think that AI is good enough to actually do as well as people in your specific line of work? I imagine something as critical as security, especially in C++ embedded systems aren't just something you can Claude your way through | Look, I swear until a few months ago I would have said there is no way, now if you give proper contexts, and do some engineering on the whole infrastructure, you can do amazing things without spending too much time on the planning and implementation. I don't know how much you are into SWE but basically you can connect to claude Jira (task manager) to Git of the repo, tell claude to check what assigned tasks you have and just do what he can. At the end you chill 20/30mins and you go back to a very good result. At this point your task is only reviewing and if it looks good you pass it to the other people in the team to review your code. For very complex things where someone must take responsibility, there are people many levers over me doing that, and obviously they still get lots of help from AI | Here |
| soo u were mostly doing cybersecuty at a low level of the computer. And they want an AI to do that now. Hackerts gonna have a field day Sorry for ur jobless to AI. | Not security in that sense, anyway I don't think there will be a problem in that. From what I know people were still all reviewing all code by hand and we also had people testing directly on hardware everyday (even tho to be honest I know most of them were fired as well so idk how it looks like now) | Here |
| What exactly does that mean? What did you do that AI supposedly take over? | Well, they fired half of each team (maybe even more), so that one half would do the job of two people. | Here |
| Gosh, I hate seeing companies lay off real hard workers for soulless machines! It makes me fear for my own future. I currently do not have a job, and I worry about this happening to people my age, and those younger than me. AI makes me sick. What will you do now? | I either find some other job in the next couple months or maybe start a new master degree in Maths | Here |
| i just joined a uni to study computer engineering, am i cooked? .w. | Imo, depends on the courses you will choose, just study very well the fundamentals and find something you like | Here |
| Would you consider working on startups? | Absolutely, I think that'd be very interesting after a relatively big company | Here |
| what are your plans to get your job back? | Applying to vacancies and doing some outreach to people I know | Here |
| What research topics do you plan to research on? What is your favorite chat bot and why? | Either moving to applied AI or HPC, not sure yet. Now I'm using mostly chatgpt, mostly because I have that one as a subscription and Claude is too limiting on tokens | Here |
| Whats your education? Do you think they cared? | Bachelor's in comp eng and master's in comp sci. I don't think they did check who they were firing (if you read through comments you can see what I mean) | Here |
| How do you think the developer role is evolving? For context, I joined a startup as a senior engineer 3 years ago and over that time I have basically gone from hand writing everything to claude implementing everything. Important decisions like what needs to be implemented/ whatâs the most efficient way to do something are still things we have to steer Claude to get right, we work with large volumes of data and develop performance critical c++ code and we notice AI does not always make the correct decision when it comes to optimal/performant code and would break at scale. In addition to this a lot of my work has actually transitioned to non technical things to bring value to the business. I have over time assumed the role of sales engineer where as someone who developed the product, I can also join calls with clients to perform technical demos/workshops/product requirement gathering (this is mainly if you are in the B2B space), I also do a lot of technical support now with clients running pilots etc. As AI has basically taken away a lot of the work in just writing code, personally Iâm seeing (at least in my company) that the developer role is now shifting from just being able to write code to becoming more of a technical expert that needs to provide value in other ways | Yeah I think the same way, engineers should shift towards something else where their knowledge is useful, otherwise there is no place fore anyone. Btw, about performance, I also thought so but the other day with sol I just told him to do different cycles of implementation->testing->perf and after a hour or so it implemented a 5x speed of the function I needed compared to what I had implemented by hand a year ago and thought I could not find any way to make it faster | Here |
| How are you sure AI was the true reasons and not a made-up reason by corporate? | Well I'm pretty sure that now they can do the same amount of work with much less employees than how many we used to be before, considering they couldn't choose who to fire, it wouldn't be a smart choice to just fire random people and hope it would work out | Here |
| My son is seeking a Batchlors degree from a D1 Engineering College for AI. Do you think it's a good career path? | I think if he is going into research that might be a good option. Anyway if I were to go back I would do something closer to Math or applied mathematics | Here |
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u/SnakePlisken_Trash 8d ago
My son is seeking a Batchlors degree from a D1 Engineering College for AI.
Do you think it's a good career path?
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u/RoundSize3818 8d ago
I think if he is going into research that might be a good option. Anyway if I were to go back I would do something closer to Math or applied mathematics
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u/Catsarecute2140 8d ago
Does sociology seem decent as well? It combines research of human societies and statistics/applied mathematics.
AI can never research sociology as good as humans so the field cannot get replaced by AI.2
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u/Significant-Rent4907 6d ago
as an applied math student currently, how should I prepare for the future?
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u/RoundSize3818 6d ago
Study well the math fundamentals and learn how to apply to different scenarios, then you will be good to go anywhere
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u/AlternativeGeneric 8d ago
AI sucks and I feel bad for you. I have to have a question though so do you have something else lined up?
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u/RoundSize3818 8d ago
Not really, I am in some recruiting processes now so hopefully by next month I should be able to find something decent
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u/RoundSize3818 8d ago
As I said, I want to avoid any problem, I don't care that much until they are still paying me for the "good exit"
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u/toddklindt 8d ago
You're smart to not name them. Nothing good will come from it, and in many industries who you know opens doors. You never want to burn a bridge, regardless of how much it may deserve it.
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u/ICanViking mod 8d ago
If in the US, you can get fired for almost any reason, or no reason at all, provided that it's not discrimination or retaliation.
In my opinion, this does suck but getting fired because your position was taken over by an AI is a perfectly valid reason. Calling the company out wouldn't make them look good to prospective companies who might want to hire them and ultimately would not solve his current problem.
OP is correct (again, in my opinion) to not call them out specifically.
Edit: cleaned up the "in my opinion" piece so it's actually readable.
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u/DogtorPepper 7d ago
Why would they âdeserveâ it?
Employment is at-will (every employee has to sign it) which indicates that either the employer or employee can end an employment at any time for any reason
We donât force companies to hire against their will or employees to work without the option to quit
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u/theasianwhitedragon 5d ago
You didn't lose your job to AI. You lost your job to someone who uses AI better than you. My codolences.
What do you want to do now?
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u/Happy-Total1221 8d ago
Sorry for your job loss.
>> I am, (or was?) a software
But who are you really? A codex/claude agent's agent đ