Yea there were layoffs blamed on AI even when GPT 3.5 couldnt write a line of code to save its life. That's public relations for you.
No exec wants to chalk up a layoff to a faltering company that can't grow sales even if it's not their fault.
No exec wants to chalk up a layoff to a faltering company that can't grow sales even if it's not their fault.
Even when AI couldn't write a line of code to save its life, I watched this company push out its strongest engineering talent to replace a series of well-constructed codebases with subhuman AI slop. They hired a wrecking crew of managers and engineers who were incentivized to ram the AI slop through as quickly as possible.