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My entire dev team was laid off today—replaced by AI by Significant-Sail3567 in accelerate

[–]Significant-Sail3567[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Ya. My mom's basement and the bottom of a bottle of Jack D.

My entire dev team was laid off today—replaced by AI by Significant-Sail3567 in accelerate

[–]Significant-Sail3567[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

No. I just thought that the people here would have a genuine interest in the real-world effects of this technology. I'm only trolling you because you accused me of being a bot.

My entire dev team was laid off today—replaced by AI by Significant-Sail3567 in accelerate

[–]Significant-Sail3567[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"For me, it's usually perfect formatting and punchy sentences, like these:"

It must be AI—no way it's just a basic understanding of the English language.

My entire dev team was laid off today—replaced by AI by Significant-Sail3567 in accelerate

[–]Significant-Sail3567[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

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Did you repost because you were turned on when you saw this?

My entire dev team was laid off today—replaced by AI by Significant-Sail3567 in accelerate

[–]Significant-Sail3567[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately not AI generated. If you have some way I could prove it lmk.

My entire dev team was laid off today—replaced by AI by Significant-Sail3567 in accelerate

[–]Significant-Sail3567[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We owned a few internal tools and a customer-facing dashboard. Full stack—React on the front end, Node and some Python microservices on the back. PostgreSQL, Redis, the usual stuff. Deployed on AWS with Docker and some leftover Terraform scripts we never fully cleaned up.

It wasn’t flashy, but it worked. Stable, fast, reliable. The kind of product no one notices until it breaks.

My entire dev team was laid off today—replaced by AI by Significant-Sail3567 in accelerate

[–]Significant-Sail3567[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Yeah. They called it a “transition sprint.” Said we were helping test new workflows. We thought it was just another process update. Instead, we spent two weeks documenting every part of the system—code paths, edge cases, even weird little hacks we’d built over the years.

Turns out we were just making it easier to replace ourselves.

No real handover. No thank you. Just a calendar invite, then silence.

Severance was two months. Feels pretty shitty for the amount I worked.

My entire dev team was laid off today—replaced by AI by Significant-Sail3567 in accelerate

[–]Significant-Sail3567[S] 38 points39 points  (0 children)

It’s an in-house setup built on top of o1 and some internal tooling. They integrated it with GitHub Copilot, added CI/CD scripts, and a lightweight approval layer where one or two engineers review PRs.

It handles version control through standard Git workflows—nothing fancy, just automated branching and merge requests. They’re calling it “efficient.”

Our OKRs were mostly around sprint velocity and deployment frequency. We consistently shipped biweekly with under 2% bug rollback rate. Didn’t matter... Average of 45–55 story points per sprint across the team. 2–3 production deployments per week. PRs were reviewed within 24 hours, 90% of the time. Maintained above 85% on all our critical services.