Comment by trashb

  When a company says “AI made everyone more productive, so we need fewer people”, I want to see the evidence - and I don’t believe it exists today. 

I think these companies doing "AI layoffs" do actually see improvement though it is a placebo and not caused by the AI usage. Don't we know for a long time already that leaner software teams perform more efficiently?

  don’t read any of this as anti-AI

I am not afraid to say I am anti-AI it surfaces a rot that in this industry marketing ideals and anecdotes have more impact then measured performance and that many people still find it very hard to estimate a developers performance, impact.

AI is shit, doesn't speed up my work. Only 10/20% of programming is typing and AI can do that fast, but the whole process no. If you disagree show me a proper study where actual improvement is measured.

Probably you could get a cheaper and more constant improvement if you make sure the developers are properly trained in the IDE's and environments they are already using. For example give everyone a Unix programming course and a course in their preferred IDE.