'AI writes 90% of code, then hires senior engineers to fix it' — AI labs keep hiring, not cutting
alex_verem · x · 2026-09-23
A viral summary of the coding hype cycle: 2024 "don't learn to code," 2025 "AI will write 90% of the code," 2026 "Hiring: senior engineer to fix the 90%."
Quoted in the post, Gergely Orosz points out that the most AI-pilled labs with unlimited per-employee AI tokens keep hiring rather than laying off — while one company that cut engineers expecting AI to replace them realized it needs more engineers ASAP.
Related event: AI-Heavy Labs Are Hiring Engineers, Not Replacing Them(2 posts)→
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