My employer is pretty advanced in its use of these tools for development and it’s absolutely accelerated everything we do to the point we are exhausting roadmaps for six months in a few weeks. However I think very few companies are operating like this yet. It takes time for tools and techniques to make it out and Claude code alone isn’t enough. They are basically planning to let go of most of the product managers and Eng managers, and I expect they’re measuring who is using the AI tools most effectively and everyone else will be let go, likely before years end. Unlike prior iterations I saw at Salesforce this time I am convinced they’re actually going to do it and pull it off. This is the biggest change I’ve seen in my 35 year career, and I have to say I’m pretty excited to be going through it even though the collateral damage will be immense to peoples lives. I plan to retire after this as well, I think this part is sort of interesting but I can see clearly what comes next is not.

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p1esk 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I’m observing very similar trends at a startup I’m at. Unfortunately I’m not ready to retire yet.

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blackcatsec 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why are you excited for this? They’re not going to give YOU those peoples’ salaries. You will get none of it. In fact, it will drag your salary through the floor because of all the available talent.

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fnordpiglet 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I’m excited as a computer scientist to see it happening in my life time. I am not excited for the consequences once it’s played out. Hence my comment about retiring, and empathy for everyone who is still around once I do. I never got into this for the money - when I started engineers made about as much as accountants. It’s only post 1997 or so that it became “cool” and well paid. I am doing this because I love technology and what it can do and the science of computing. So in that regard it’s an amazing time to be here. But I am also sad to see the black box cover the beauty of it all.

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Karrot_Kream 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm very confused about this. Salary is only one portion of your total compensation. The vast majority of tech companies offer equity in a company. The two ways to increase the FMV of your equity is: increase your equity stake or increase the value of the total equity available. Hitting the same goals with fewer people means your run rate is lower, which increases the value of your equity (the FMV prices in lower COGS for the same revenue.) Also, keeping on staff often means you want to offer them increased equity stakes as an employment package. Letting staff go means more of that available equity pool is available to distribute to remaining employees.

We aren't fungible workers in a low skill industry. And if you find yourself working in a tech company without equity: just don't, leave. Either find a new tech company or do something else altogether.

	▲	camdenreslink 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Equity is negotiable just like salary, and if supply of developer labor increases with the same or less demand, you'll get less equity just like you will get less salary.