Programmers Aren't Being Replaced — They're Doing the Replacing
considerthis8 · reddit · 2026-09-11
A Reddit discussion argues a counterintuitive take: IT and engineering teams won't be cut first by AI — they're the ones building AI tools that replace other departments' work, even as those departments assume IT is on the chopping block.
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