this post was submitted on 26 May 2025
65 points (100.0% liked)

TechTakes

1880 readers
91 users here now

Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.

For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
dgerard@awful.systems
65
Firing people for AI: not going so well (pivot-to-ai.com)
submitted 3 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
16 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

video version

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Replacing programmers with AI coding isn’t working out so well. I’m hearing stories of consultant programmers being called in to quietly rewrite vibe code disasters that were the CEO’s personal pet project, because the code cannot be fixed in place.

"AI" removes the people who stood between the CEO and the code. It's the perfect anti-productivity tool.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml -2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

quietly

?

[–] Tenkard@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They don't want to tell to the CEO face that they sucks so instead of fixing it themselves they pay an external programmer to fix it

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

But the manager is still not fixed, thinks he can have less people do more programming in the future.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 2 days ago

Precisely this.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 2 days ago

I'm sure your keyboard has more input controls than just that, want to try some of them?