[GLGT]Programmers bore the brunt of Microsoft’s layoffs in its home state as AI writes up to 30% of its code

[toolbox03]

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/15/p...-home-state-as-ai-writes-up-to-30-of-its-code

Programmers bore the brunt of Microsoft’s layoffs in its home state as AI writes up to 30% of its code​

Coders were hit hardest among Microsoft’s 2,000-person layoff in its home state of Washington, Bloomberg reports.

Over 40% of the people laid off were in software engineering, making it by far the largest category, Bloomberg found based on state filings. Relatively few sales or marketing positions were affected, Bloomberg added.

 

[Mr BBFA]

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/15/p...-home-state-as-ai-writes-up-to-30-of-its-code

Programmers bore the brunt of Microsoft’s layoffs in its home state as AI writes up to 30% of its code​

Coders were hit hardest among Microsoft’s 2,000-person layoff in its home state of Washington, Bloomberg reports.

Over 40% of the people laid off were in software engineering, making it by far the largest category, Bloomberg found based on state filings. Relatively few sales or marketing positions were affected, Bloomberg added.

knn those study programming wlwl

 

[toolbox03]

knn those study programming wlwl

Ownself program ownself out of job

 

[shodan99]

Why they don't take course to upskill?

 

[TA20222025]

Ownself program ownself out of job

They should be proud of it. This is what they wanted, right?

 

[thyler_koh]

The useless pap will tell you to upskill .

 

[hctawsgs]

Don't worry, Sinkinpore will welcome these talent surplus with open arms and legs.

 

[archie7]

think next time...programmer job will be more of an admin job

https://openai.com/index/introducing-codex/

 

[Mclairs83]

the only job that can't replaced by AI.

plumber & electrician.

 

[buttbERry]

AI replacing humans is a matter of time

 

[marshalTan93]

think next time...programmer job will be more of an admin job

Not surprising mah. Afterall, Coding/programming is just click click & copy paste, most of time.

AI shld be able to do abt 80% of the job.

This role is no longer a unicorn position.

 

[Phen8210]

Saying copy paste is easy, but those who aren't familiar they still can't write proper code even with help of AI, its still beyond the reach of regular human beings, such as Admins, Finance Officers, and HR.

Besides, coding is just a small part of development, in reality the scope is way larger scale and you actually need to know how to code and understand development concepts + software & system architecture .

There's a reason why specialized tech jobs are still the most in demand after even with all these layoffs, the cognitive demand is high and not many people can do it .

 

[asiafrenz]

still got that many AMDK doing programming in amerika ???

 

[TickTechToe]

Means more bugs and loopholes in their OS in the future

 

[Uncle Lorger]

still got that many AMDK doing programming in amerika ???

Probably all the programmers are from the talent surplus country

so actually dont need to feel so bad about programmers losing their jobs

 

[charsiewfan]

They replaced by AI, but not artificial intelligence

 

[Big Chicken]

the only job that can't replaced by AI.

plumber & electrician.

Now porn also got AI one.

Yui Hatano, Saika Kawakita going to be out of job soon.

 

[Big Chicken]

Probably all the programmers are from the talent surplus country

so actually dont need to feel so bad about programmers losing their jobs

Yes, majority are from Uptron land.

 

[dambio]

knn those study programming wlwl

Go study maintenance of servers n equipment better I think

 

[samferguson]

Next time Windows OS will ownself code ownself, ownself check ownself, ownself debug ownself, ownself upgrade ownself.