Have you lost your job to AI?

Have you lost your job to AI?

  • Yes, and I've been struggling to find work since

    Votes: 5 7.5%

  • Yes, and I've landed a new job already

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • No, but I'm expecting it

    Votes: 19 28.4%

  • No, and I'm pretty confident my job is safe

    Votes: 43 64.2%
  • Total voters
    67
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The company where I worked, in the fintech space, as a senior full-stack software engineer, took an aggressive AI adoption stance as a means to keep up with the trends. Their multi-pronged strategy involved both using AI in our daily work and integrating it into our products.

After a few years everyone started submitting pull requests for code changes - our business analysts and even the CEO got in on the action.

18 months later I received a letter of termination saying my role is redundant and they can't afford me any longer. 11 years at the company as employee #1, and I got replaced by an AI because it was cheaper than my salary.

Do you have a similar experience, or fear your job is at risk? Share your stories, I'd love to hear them.
 
I'm not affected by AI much, nor am I very knowledgeable about the intricacies of how it's applied in business and industry.

I do however know , through my kid, that in the finance sector it's causing major ripples as most routine tasks and processes are becoming automated using AI . At the company that she works at nearly everyone who left is not being replaced , as their roles are in most cases easily absorbed/handled by AI.

She's been instrumental in automating many of these tasks herself . I wonder if at some stage she herself will become redundant.

Little can be taken as a certainty these days, as far as job security goes!
 
Sinbad said:
It's only cheaper because it's completely unsustainable.

Anthropic just posted a half year loss of $80bn.

They will want to start recouping these costs soon. Claude price ++++++++
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A few companies have already found out that people are cheaper than AI.
Same as a lot of companies found out that on prem storage is cheaper than cloud storage.
 
Lupus said:
A few companies have already found out that people are cheaper than AI.
Same as a lot of companies found out that on prem storage is cheaper than cloud storage.
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The greedy CEOs and their accountants will be the last to learn the laws of physics.
 
Lupus said:
A few companies have already found out that people are cheaper than AI.
Same as a lot of companies found out that on prem storage is cheaper than cloud storage.
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Yup. One year of our datawarehouse hosting in azure costs the same as buying 2PB of netapp storage, 6 years support and a mid term hardware uplift.
 
I work in client services and know it could happen soon. A bot could replace me tomorrow. IT requested that we read out a script a while back so they could train something.
 
Sinbad said:
Yup. One year of our datawarehouse hosting in azure costs the same as buying 2PB of netapp storage, 6 years support and a mid term hardware uplift.
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Its a weird thing with companies, they go all in on something and then have to backpeddle a few years later when the bills come due, even thought the technical people were warning them of this approach from day 1.

Cloud is a great "technology" but it is not cost effective for static baseline/growing use cases, its brilliant for burstable capacity and things like that.
 
Alexander the Straight said:
I'm not affected by AI much, nor am I very knowledgeable about the intricacies of how it's applied in business and industry.

I do however know , through my kid, that in the finance sector it's causing major ripples as most routine tasks and processes are becoming automated using AI . At the company that she works at nearly everyone who left is not being replaced , as their roles are in most cases easily absorbed/handled by AI.

She's been instrumental in automating many of these tasks herself . I wonder if at some stage she herself will become redundant.

Little can be taken as a certainty these days, as far as job security goes!
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I have seen similar.

In particular, people in BI or reporting are being replaced by AI.
I still think you need someone who understands data though, because AI is not always clever at recognising crap.

People doing data recons can also have a lot of their work automated.

Just in those two spaces we can get work that took 500 hours a month before down to an hour.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Its a weird thing with companies, they go all in on something and then have to backpeddle a few years later when the bills come due, even thought the technical people were warning them of this approach from day 1.

Cloud is a great "technology" but it is not cost effective for static baseline/growing use cases, its brilliant for burstable capacity and things like that.
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Always the employees who get punished for the folly, never will a greedy CEO suffer a hardship. Never will he not get the full package BMW he wanted
 
Alexander the Straight said:
I'm not affected by AI much, nor am I very knowledgeable about the intricacies of how it's applied in business and industry.

I do however know , through my kid, that in the finance sector it's causing major ripples as most routine tasks and processes are becoming automated using AI . At the company that she works at nearly everyone who left is not being replaced , as their roles are in most cases easily absorbed/handled by AI.

She's been instrumental in automating many of these tasks herself . I wonder if at some stage she herself will become redundant.

Little can be taken as a certainty these days, as far as job security goes!
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I think in the near future many of those automations may come back to haunt companies if they've been done poorly. They'll work 99% of the time, but that 1% will be an interesting outlier that could hurt them financially.

In oversimplified terms, AI is auto-complete on steroids, and its great for some things without a doubt, but relying on it to do the same thing 100000 million times without fail and getting it right every time is not something I think its good at.
 
There's no question it has cost a lot of jobs, particularly in the graduate space.

I'm self employed but I get spammed to death by providers of AI "solutions" that will immediately make me wealthy beyond my dreams, while spending the whole day at the beach. I haven't seen feedback from anyone in my industry raving about the productivity improvements though. In actual fact if anything it's been the opposite.

Things will no doubt normalise at some point, but a vast amount of money will have been wasted.
 
ToxicBunny said:
I think in the near future many of those automations may come back to haunt companies if they've been done poorly. They'll work 99% of the time, but that 1% will be an interesting outlier that could hurt them financially.

In oversimplified terms, AI is auto-complete on steroids, and its great for some things without a doubt, but relying on it to do the same thing 100000 million times without fail and getting it right every time is not something I think its good at.
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I agree with that. When it breaks, the people who know how it’s supposed to work will be Gamow, and the best Yiu”ll get from AI is “great catch!”

The old saying was garbage in, garbage out, but with AI you can put proper data in and get garbage out and never know it.
 
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