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Anyone else dealing with this, hiring freeze for new devs but more work/projects? (piefed.social)
submitted 3 days ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/programming@programming.dev
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I am experiencing a bit of a whiplash here at work. To be fair, I am getting paid very well (and got a significant raise last year, that was good), but we have had positions be open for years now with no hiring. And we are having more and more projects being proposed without finishing the projects themselves. Its the classic they want to do more with less scenario. The top brass just announced a hiring freeze so new devs for a while.

The execs are floating the idea that AI can be used to replace or supplement the people leaving. On all of our propitiatory code-base/solutions....yeah that will go well.

So yeah anyone else dealing with this?

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[–] Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 days ago

It sounds like they're in a holding pattern. They think AI will functionally replace programmers soon enough that hiring new ones will just be a waste of money.

Too bad that even if it were only a year or two away (it's not, at least certainly not in the way they think), programmers would still 100% be the only people that could successfully onboard an AI solution into a proprietary ecosystem.