OpenAI and Anthropic have 1,400+ job openings while AI-cutting rivals lay off engineers
Hesamation · x · 2026-09-23
Hesamation, quoting GergelyOrosz, highlights an industry irony: OpenAI and Anthropic currently have over 1,400 job openings combined. The labs most "AI-pilled" — with effectively unlimited tokens per employee — keep hiring and show no signs of layoffs.
Meanwhile, other companies pay heavily for tokens, see barely any product improvement, and lay off staff to fund their AI bills. Orosz adds that one company which did big layoffs expecting AI to need fewer engineers quickly realized it needed more engineers, ASAP.
The takeaway: frontier labs deeply using AI aren't replacing engineers with it — companies treating AI as a headcount-cutting tool are the ones misjudging.
Related event: AI-Heavy Labs Are Hiring Engineers, Not Replacing Them(2 posts)→
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