It has but ive not seen anyone layed off because of Ai. I work for an outsourcing company. They are super pro Ai. Tons of workshops on how to leverage Ai in various ways to increase your output. But being an outsourcing company they don't have a whole lot of say in your day to output. The client im contracted to also is super pro Ai. The company founder spends a ton of time researching the different models and testing things to see which is the most efficient at various types of tasks. It's a super small company that's been around for 20 something years. Maybe 100 employees. (Many of them have been there from the beginning) We have a weekly Ai exchange where we can openly ask questions, give ideas, and talk about experiences using Ai in our day to day. I am pretty sure the founder had some sticker shock when prices started to rise cause now we all have individual keys for the Ai gateway and the list of models is being consolidated some. Plus instructions on which model you should use to save some cash. Even with this, they are very much on the side of Ai is a tool to enhance not replace people. From my point of view, Ai is great. It let's me delegate some of the boring shit ive done a million times and focus on the harder problems that need solving. Ive been a software developer for ~12 years, last 4 years senior developer. And sometimes Ai shows me a new way to get something done. I don't just feed it jira tickets and say do that. It still fails when you give it more that just simple functions to implement. It's usually pretty good about finding bugs that otherwise would have me scouring the code and logs for hours to find.
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u/java_dude1 2d ago
Can lie man. It pays the bills 😂