article misses an important point that these big tech companies are all listed on the public market, any narrative about their decisions should weigh that reality and why suddenly its being disseminated.

personally, I am collecting 3 salaries working remotely. For one of the jobs, I am tasked with hiring other devs but i dont put the effort in as i dont see a point. i just say i can't find a decent engineer and why should i when a frontier models can do most of their work? in our job postings we see thousands of applicants in a very short period of time, i just do these multi stage interviews with a rotation of candidates to basically buy time while i work on another job

i see that things are getting very desperate and i feel for those that are still struggling to find SWE jobs, AI is absolutely doing a number and the gap is going to increase not decrease.