AI didn't cut dev jobs, it cut raises—layoffs were COVID overhiring corrections
mervenoyann · x · 2026-09-13
Hugging Face's Merve Noyan pushes back on doom narratives: past industrial revolutions transformed rather than eliminated jobs, and AI hasn't reduced dev headcount—just suppressed raises. She argues many layoffs are corrections for COVID overhiring relabeled as AI-driven to boost stock prices, and that the real need is knowledge workers skilled at managing agents, though most people outside the AI circle haven't even used them yet.
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