This year as seen the highest level of mass Layoffs from almost 80% of global tech companies, which has caused panic in the tech ecosystem.

Last week, an AI company called openAI also showcases a new wonder technology - ChatGPT, which can perform perfectly any task outsource to it in no time.
Thus call for concern as some predict about half of tech jobs will be lost to AI in decades to come.

What's your experience about latest layoffs in your companies? Were you or your colleagues retrenched? How do those that were sacked coping? Should we expect more of these or it's just transient.

What's the future of programmers amidst these disruptions?
Let's hear from the house.

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YoobaNesan:

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I find it funny when people says tech jobs would be gone due to AI? First, what do you refer to as tech jobs?
There is a huge difference between people who are developing techs and people who work for a tech company.
Take for example, someone working as a customer support service for a tech company, I don’t think that is considered as tech job, I would say “working for tech company “ and yes it’s easy to lose that job when the real tech developers build a bot that can answer calls and respond to customers on phone.
It’s still people who build AI, tech dev (the real people in tech) job is never going anywhere. That’s my opinion.
Only people who work for tech companies might be laid off when bots build by tech devs are doing most of the support jobs. Even the bots needs maintenance and upgrades from time to time so the tech dev stays!

Same thread everyday

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omoluabiguy:


I find it funny when people says tech jobs would be gone due to AI? First, what do you refer to as tech jobs?
There is a huge difference between people who are developing techs and people who work for a tech company.
Take for example, someone working as a customer support service for a tech company, I don’t think that is considered as tech job, I would say “working for tech company “ and yes it’s easy to lose that job when the real tech developers build a bot that can answer calls and respond to customers on phone.
It’s still people who build AI, tech dev (the real people in tech) job is never going anywhere. That’s my opinion.
Only people who work for tech companies might be laid off when bots build by tech devs are doing most of the support jobs. Even the bots needs maintenance and upgrades from time to time so the tech dev stays!