The real impact is for indie-devs or freelancers but that usually doesn't account for much of the GDP.
Don't know if this is effective and I don't think management knows either, but it's what they're doing
Doesn't mean the two are related.
Is AI just the excuse? We've got tariffs, war, uncertainty and other drama non stop.
Management often has a perverse short-term incentive to make labor feel insecure. It’s a quick way to make people feel insecure and work harder ... for a while.
Also, “AI makes us more productive so we can cut our labor costs” sounds so much better to investors than some variation of “layoffs because we fucked up / business is down / etc”
"We've frozen hiring because our growth potential is tapped out."
"We've frozen hiring because AI can replace employees."
When you're unemployed, it doesn't matter. When executives cargo cult, it doesn't matter.
Instead they are using Electron and calling it a day. Very ironic isn't it? If AI is so good then why don't we get native software from Anthropic?
So why aren't they using their own software to generate a linux optimized package for linux, a Swift software for MacOS and whatever windows uses.
That would be the best ad for AI. See, we use our own product!
But it doesn't happen.
So essentially by not generating custom binaries for every platform and using Electron they're doing one thing but saying something else. So maybe generating code isn't the #1 problem in the world!
Also I remember them saying that their engg write less code and they use Claude to write Claude. If Claude can be used to write Claude then why not use Claude to write OS specific binaries?!