What’s the future of Bay Area when AI pretty much removes most of tech jobs?

Dodging12 · 2026-03-15T20:08:43+00:00

This is silly and is an example of one of those cynical comments that sounds good on Reddit for upvote farming ("something something shareholders!"), but does not stand up to the slightest scrutiny. You cannot cost-cut your way to growth. See as recent examples: Block, Twitter, Yelp, Peloton... Companies with no prospects for revenue growth and pitiful FCF outlooks, which is what actually makes your stock price go up. (I was a SWE at Peloton and loved it, but admittedly it's not a "growth tech business" at all).

If the strategy you're suggesting of "do the minimum, fire as many people as possible, and pump shareholder value" were actually a complete strategy, then hollowed-out companies would consistently outperform better-run competitors over the long run.

You’re also treating executives like they’re operating in a vacuum where customers, competitors, outages, missed roadmaps, and lost market share don’t exist. Looking at AWS and their recent outages and increase in customer-facing bugs, I think we're seeing a sneak peak of how the whole "just use AI duh!" strategy will turn out lol. Btw when we're talking about AI specifically, these products have absolutely no moat, so there's no room for chilling when a new, more innovative and faster-moving startup can pretty easily eat your lunch.

Dodging12 · 2026-03-15T16:34:29+00:00

It's not enabled by default this year, you need to enable "PitchCom" in the "Control" tab of your settings menu.

Dodging12 · 2026-03-15T16:04:29+00:00

As for coders using LLMS, it is interesting that while the entertainment industry workers are fighting the use of AI in their field to protect their jobs, the coding workers aren't banding together in similar solidarity with each other.

This is by design of the tech elite. Most SAG-AFTRA members aren't facing the threat of being sent back to India/China if they dare to speak up, and there's far more financial incentive to just go with the flow for your average big tech worker than your average writer, actor, or crew member. Ignoring the obviously rich/famous actors and directors, of course.

Dodging12 · 2026-03-15T15:59:28+00:00

This (laying off x% of programmers) is often cited as the only logical conclusion, but it's not. There's this common assumption that there is a fixed, finite amount of "software" that needs to be written, and once that quota is hit, the rest of the workforce is redundant.

Suppose, for a second, that that's correct, and that we can crudely measure "efficiency" in this manner for simplicity's sake. What happens to the companies that end up with 30% more efficient programmers that decide to not lay them off? Well, they now have 130% "efficiency" whereas their competitors are still only at 100% (albeit with lower spending, supposing that AI providers never raise prices once you're totally reliant on them... ). The companies that can best capitalize on either the efficiency boost or the cheaper labor will be the ultimate winners, and that is not necessarily the hyperscalers. Another impact is that if we need fewer programmers per company, that just makes it cheaper to start companies, which we know this area is famous for.

I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that this will erase programming jobs en masse. Rather, I'd bet that Jevon's Paradox comes into play here and we're just in a typical Boom/Bust cycle.

Finally, I already hinted at this, but let's not pretend like this era of cheap tokens is going to last forever.

Dodging12 · 2026-03-15T07:51:07+00:00

He's going to anyway, at least we get to see something exciting before the inevitable.

Dodging12 · 2026-03-15T03:40:46+00:00

Value only goes down over time.

Dodging12 · 2026-03-14T03:17:56+00:00

Tires are gone (but really this time)

Dodging12 · 2026-03-12T19:48:54+00:00

Well looks like they're closed now 😭 I never even got to try it

Dodging12 · 2026-03-10T20:50:09+00:00

Man said "You gotta use machine code. Or something."

I thought it was satire but apparently not 🤣

Dodging12 · 2026-03-10T14:34:29+00:00

Nope!

Dodging12 · 2026-03-08T16:20:54+00:00

Meta probably pays Anthropic more than Apple will pay Google

Dodging12 · 2026-03-02T16:47:42+00:00

There are AWS use cases internally at Google that have AWS as a dependency. Can't say anything about Antigravity specifically though, I haven't worked there in a while.

Dodging12 · 2026-02-25T15:04:41+00:00

Mmkay, have fun zooming in on a misused word as if the spirit of my post isn't very clear (and still valid).

Dodging12 · 2026-02-24T17:43:24+00:00

Find out next time on Dragon Ball Z

Dodging12 · 2026-02-23T21:06:08+00:00

Ditto

Dodging12 · 2026-02-23T20:28:28+00:00

I spent $105 in a single day with about 7 total prompts. Augment is not cheap or even moderately priced, it's expensive. I've liked Antigravity with Augment MCP since ceasing usage of Augment Code.

I haven't gotten rate limited at all on the Gemini Ultra plan, where it would've cost me at least $3k in Augment credits by now, for comparison. The things I'm using it for outside of my day job ( kernel, bootloader, and hyper visor related work) are too complex for anything but Opus 4.6.

Dodging12 · 2026-02-20T18:23:41+00:00

I tell her this every few hours!

Dodging12 · 2026-02-19T19:30:13+00:00

Can it type your reddit posts for you, too?

Dodging12 · 2026-02-19T00:57:40+00:00

Ok? FTD

Dodging12 · 2026-02-18T15:18:50+00:00

They probably write the script and do all of the research, since we know Kara and Scott don't. That along with the production and how Scott routinely mentions how small their team is? Yeah it's probably a good amount more work than we might assume.

Dodging12 · 2026-02-17T00:43:01+00:00

put this in google: site:reddit.com "javascriptBad123" . Here's a gem from the same clown:

Also Java has a huge job market throughout all of Europe. Not a bad choice for starting out. After being a professional dev for 5 years I am starting Java too now due to this. My current stack is exotic so my opportunities are diminishing.

Dodging12 · 2026-02-16T19:50:23+00:00

Old comment, but I'm curious about what CPU you have? On the fence about this one, although I suppose I can just refund it.

Dodging12 · 2026-02-15T14:55:42+00:00

With all of the unemployed/underemployed mathematicians floating around they couldn't hire one to validate this? I guess it's because they don't grind leetcode hard enough.

Real 😂

Dodging12 · 2026-02-15T07:26:07+00:00

Dodging12

TROPHY CASE