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The Dumbest Move in Tech Right Now: Laying Off Developers Because of AI
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this post was submitted on 20 May 2025
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An interesting trend is these comments: the worse a code base is, the more helpful AI is for expanding it (without actually fixing the underlying problems like repetitive overly long unexpressive code).