So it begins.
We told you AI was coming for tons of programming jobs but you refused to listen. You said it’s all mindless hype.
You said AI is just “improved Google”. You said it’s “glorified autocomplete”.
Now Microsoft just swung the axe big time. Huge huge layoffs. Thousands of software developers gone.
Okay maybe this is just an isolated event, right? It couldn’t possibly be the sign of the things to come, right?
Okay no it was just “corporate restructuring”.
Fine I won’t argue with you but you need to look at the facts.
30% of production code in Microsoft is now written by AI – not from anyone’s ass – from Satya Nadella himself (heard of the guy?).
25% of production code in Google written by AI.
Oh but I know the deniers among you will try to cope by saying it’s just template boilerplate code or unit tests that the AI writes. No they don’t write “real code” that needs “creativity” and “problem solving”. Ha ha ha.
Or they’ll say trash like, “Oh but my IDE writes my code too, and I still have my job”. Yeah I’ve seen this.
Sure because IDE tools like search & replace or Intellisense are in anyway equatable to an autonomous AI that understands your entire codebase and makes several intelligent changes across files with just a simple prompt.
Maybe you can’t really blame them since these days even the slightest bit of automation in a product is called AI by desperate marketing.
Oh yes, powerful agentic reasoning vibe coding tools like Windsurf and Cursor are no different from hard-coded algorithmic features like autocomplete, right?
I mean these people already said the agentic AI tools are no different from copying & pasting from Google. They already said it can’t really reason.
Just glorified StackOverflow right?
Even with the massive successes of AI tools like GitHub Copilot you’re still here sticking your head in your stand and avoiding seeing the writing on the wall.
VS Code saw the writing the wall and started screaming AI from the rooftops. It’s all about Copilot now.
Look now OpenAI wants to buy Windsurf for 3 billion dollars. Just for fun right?
Everybody can see the writing on the wall.
And you’re still here talking trash about how it’s all just hype.
What would it take to finally convince these people that these AI software engineering agents are the real deal?