u/jmclondon97

The large, US insurance company I work for uses AI agents through gitlab. It’s called Gitlab Duo Agent, it’s similar in ways to Claude Code but it has access to all your repos, does code reviews etc.

Last week, the company sent out a notice to everyone that we were out of tokens until July lmao. People were obviously pissed.

Well today we got another email saying that when we do get our tokens back on July 1st, we must be more mindful of our usage, and we are being limited on an individual basis. The best part is they said we should basically never choose Opus because it’s too expensive and we should use Haiku first, and if that doesn’t help then we can use Sonnet.

I laughed for like 5 minutes straight after reading that. Who the fuck uses Haiku as a professional developer?

TLDR- real, billion dollar US companies are having massive issues with token costs

How much longer do you think before we see mass layoffs of devs?

How many employed devs do you think the US has in 5 years? In 10? 20?

And if you’re under 35, do you think you’ll make it as a dev to retirement age (60+)?

People for the past few months have been coping and finding excuses for why companies were doing layoffs and telling themselves that AI isn’t increasing productivity, it’s to save the stock, whatever.

It’s here folks. When Dario said 5 months ago that AI would take 50% of entry level white collar jobs people scoffed.

But the layoffs are increasing before our eyes. We went from 1-2 companies announcing layoffs a week, to now multiple companies announcing big layoffs every day.

Just today, Gitlab, Coinbase, Amazon, and Walmart all announced big layoffs. And yet people still cope and say “it’s not AI, it’s x!”

If I know one thing, it’s that I guarantee we see more layoffs announced tomorrow.

I’m glad Pitt is getting more housing but at the same time I’m wondering why Pitt is taking on record numbers of students when everyone is saying AI is making white collar jobs obsolete? Are they just trying to get as much money as they can before it’s over?

Ish is getting real. Should I become a plumber or electrician?

The billionaires want us all to become stupid, lose critical thinking, and become dependent on their AI products.

Sorry, no. I refuse to outsource my intelligence and pay you for it.

Keep learning. Do the opposite of what these scumbag rich fucks want you to do.

Nothing is more important than education, critical thinking, and problem solving. Nobody can take that away from you unless you let them.

Sure, if your job wants you to produce slop fast, go ahead and do it. But do not stop learning on the side. Set aside time where you are actively learning and not just prompting away.

And if you are in school right now, absolutely do not rely on AI to do your assignments and homework.

Every day, I have panic attacks and stress out about if I’m gonna be homeless in the next couple years because every day I see more and more posts about AI improving, solving some new math problem, more layoffs etc.

I know all the counter arguments: AI is just a tool, it’s the economy, it’s offshoring, it’s interest rates, etc.
while those things are definitely contributing factors to today, I am highly afraid of the future of my career. I have 4 years of experience as a developer and am stressed out constantly. I can’t even enjoy my free time anymore because I feel like I’m falling behind.

I desperately need out of this field but I can’t get out because I am in $50k of high interest credit card debt that I am slowly trying to pay off but is a very long process because I’m only making about $75k a year before taxes.

What job can I transfer to that will pay me at least $60k without additional education (I cannot afford more school, and I’m already 35), that I can stop worrying about AI taking over?

I applied to the electrician union and interviewed but I’m not sure my score is high enough to get in, and it’s just a waiting game at this point to see if they would take me, but I doubt I get in. Also even if I took this I’d only be making like $40k/yr the first 1-2 years so I don’t think it’s even economically viable for me

Every day, I have panic attacks and stress out about if I’m gonna be homeless in the next couple years because every day I see more and more posts about AI improving, solving some new math problem, more layoffs etc.

I know all the counter arguments: AI is just a tool, it’s the economy, it’s offshoring, it’s interest rates, etc.
while those things are definitely contributing factors to today, I am highly afraid of the future of my career. I have 4 years of experience as a developer and am stressed out constantly. I can’t even enjoy my free time anymore because I feel like I’m falling behind.

I desperately need out of this field but I can’t get out because I am in $50k of high interest credit card debt that I am slowly trying to pay off but is a very long process because I’m only making about $75k a year before taxes.

What job can I transfer to that will pay me at least $60k without additional education (I cannot afford more school, and I’m already 35), that I can stop worrying about AI taking over?

I applied to the electrician union and interviewed but I’m not sure my score is high enough to get in, and it’s just a waiting game at this point to see if they would take me, but I doubt I get in. Also even if I took this I’d only be making like $40k/yr the first 1-2 years so I don’t think it’s even economically viable for me

I have never seen someone be so consistently wrong in my life.

Dude said the Pens would win. Knew it was over before the game started.