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@swapnakpanda These influencers and their fake AI takeover stories.

Woke up to a bad news. One old friend (my junior) lost his job today. He was in that company since 2009. 17 years. Began his career there and stayed there forever. We met last time in January. I asked him what made you to stay there for so long. Comfortability. They take care of me so well. I know in-n-out of the system. They need me badly. Today they dissolved the entire company. Left only 4 junior level workers and 1 manager. The insiders say they are moving in with AI. Most possibly Claude Cowork. Interestingly when we met last time, I mentioned him about Claude, Copilot, etc. He had no idea of what are these. Guys. Those who are seniors in this industry: > Be prepared. > Don't sleep with this thought that the company needs you and won't fire you. > Adapt AI ASAP. > Think yourself like a junior. > Learn new tech everyday. Otherwise you will perish like many others.

@tanujDE3180 Hearing same thing from last couple of months! Where are these apps?? By the end of this year this hype around AI generated code and everybody is a coder will diminish because end result of vibe coding is 0 and just non production ready POCs

> Doctors building a medical app using AI > CAs building a tax tool using AI > Teachers creating learning app with AI > Photographers building a portfolio website with AI in minutes Is software engineering dead?

@TechLayoffLover Oh so you came to know this just now. Weren’t you at breakfast last week with 100 CTOs? They didn’t told you about it then 😜

Oracle just announced they're REHIRING 8,000 of the 30,000 workers they executed in March AS CONTRACTORS WITHOUT BENEFITS FOR 60% OF THEIR PREVIOUS SALARY Same fucking job. Same desk. Same manager who walked them out. But now they're "independent consultants" with zero healthcare, no stock options, and contracts that expire every 6 months I'm hearing the offshore teams they hired simultaneously are getting the permanent roles with full benefits while Americans get the contractor scraps Sources saying Larry Ellison's internal memo literally called it "workforce arbitrage optimization" - corporate speak for "let's destroy the American middle class for quarterly margins" $6.13 billion in profits last quarter while playing musical chairs with human lives The rehired contractors have to reapply for building access. THE SAME FUCKING BUILDINGS THEY WORKED IN FOR YEARS. Oracle's HR sent templates to managers: "We're excited to welcome back talent in a more flexible capacity" Translation: "We're going to work you to death without paying benefits and fire you the second our AI agents can do your job" Same workload. Same deadlines. Same impossible expectations. 60% of the pay and none of the security If you work at Oracle right now, screenshot everything and start interviewing today because you're next on the contractor conversion list

@sickdotdev @pt_grimes % increase in employee count from 2019 to 2025: • Amazon: 97.5% increase (from ~798,000 to ~1,576,000) • Meta: 75.9% increase (from ~44,900 to ~79,000) • Microsoft: 58.3% increase (from 144,000 to 228,000) • Oracle: 19.1% increase (from 136,000 to 162,000) It’s over hiring

@pt_grimes not really

Coders: AI won't replace developers. Oracle: We’re laying off 30K employees.

@CypherKris @0xlelouch_ Don’t worry you will learn it when you will run your business.

@thisPtr @0xlelouch_ Grow up.. It's not always the case

The Oracle layoffs are a reminder that one hidden problem with switching jobs too aggressively for higher and higher roles is this: you keep moving up in title and salary, but you also quietly move yourself into a smaller and smaller market. At 12 LPA, 20 LPA, 30 LPA there are many openings. At 60 LPA, 80 LPA, 1 crore plus, suddenly the number of companies that can afford you drops very fast. Now add layoffs into the mix. When a company is cutting costs, the expensive mid-level or senior hire who joined recently is often at more risk than the person who has been there for 4 years with deep system knowledge. And the worst part is this: once you get used to a certain lifestyle, it becomes mentally very hard to go backwards. Your EMI does not want a career correction. Your ego does not want a lower title. Your family does not want a “temporary step down”. But the market does not care. So now you are stuck in a dangerous zone: too expensive for many roles, too junior for some leadership roles, and unwilling to come down. This is why blindly chasing the next package is not always a winning strategy. Better strategy is: switch with a reason, build rare skills, make sure your market value is backed by real depth, and save enough money so you are not negotiating from panic. A 40 LPA engineer with real ownership, calmness, and 18 months of runway is in a much stronger position than an 80 LPA engineer with no savings and no room to step down. More salary is good ofcourse. But with every jump, ask yourself: am i becoming more valuable, or just more expensive?

@_adityaa21 It’s clear tha you have never worked on any production grade software and neither you have seen how they are built. Ignorance is a bliss

Job that are going to replace by AI very soon :- Frontend Developer Backend Developer Full Stack Developer Software Engineer Web Developer Mobile App Developer iOS Developer Android Developer Game Developer UI Developer UX Designer Product Designer Graphic Designer Motion Designer DevOps Engineer Site Reliability Engineer Cloud Engineer Platform Engineer Infrastructure Engineer System Administrator Network Engineer Data Analyst Data Scientist Data Engineer Business Intelligence Analyst Machine Learning Engineer AI Engineer Cybersecurity Analyst Ethical Hacker Security Engineer QA Tester Automation Tester Performance Tester Database Administrator Blockchain Developer Embedded Systems Engineer Firmware Engineer Product Manager Project Manager Scrum Master Business Analyst Technical Writer Support Engineer IT Helpdesk Interns Freshers Seniors Leads Managers CTOs At this point… just unplug the internet 👍

@0xPrajwal_ I have seen people with better leet code rating but still getting fired and that too because of poor performance. Leet code and hackathon are not same as writing production ready code.

Saw someone got laid off from Oracle. 700+ LeetCode 1900 Rating 10+ Big Projects 2× hackathon wins Open source (not that much) Still laid off. Is this the end of Computer Science ?

@trikcode Na not yet- It’s true for only those who are selling some AI stuff - either product or course. These stories are helping those only 🤑

wait so Cursor 3 launched and their tagline is literally "a world where all code is written by agents" they're not even pretending anymore we're all just reviewers now

@0xlelouch_ If a project is not giving return then that will be closed and all in that project gets fired - irrespective of their experience - That’s how business take decision. So if your project is crucial and you are important for delivery then you will not be laid off even with high pay

@0xlelouch_ Completely wrong analysis- Layoffs happens irrespective of your Salary. People are getting fired in every pay bracket from 10 lakh to 1 cr. But people with high package invested more and therefore has now big cushion compared to person with low salary.

@0xlelouch_ That’s your perspective and not companies.

@thisPtr Think from a company's perspective - who would you lay off? A guy who is earning more vs a guy who is earning less but has nearly the same level of productivity with AI

Had drinks with 30 CTOs last night at an off-the-record gathering in Palo Alto Every single one showed me the same internal PowerPoint slide "2026 AI Headcount Targets: Path to 70% Cost Reduction" The numbers will make you physically sick Fintech CTO planning to cut 280-person engineering org down to 43 "AI orchestrators" by September. Same product roadmap. Same delivery expectations. Healthcare CTO already eliminated his entire manual QA department. 67 people. Replaced with 3 senior engineers running autonomous testing agents that ship code directly to production. SaaS CTO walked me through his "human depreciation timeline": 340 engineers today, 89 planned for 2027. Customer support going from 120 humans to 12 "escalation specialists" managing AI conversations. The most chilling part: they're all using the exact same consulting deck from McKinsey called "The 30% Organization" One CTO literally said "hiring humans for code is like hiring horses for transportation" Another showed me Slack screenshots where his L7s are asking if they should train their replacements The consensus was unanimous: if you can't manage 10 AI agents by Christmas, you're not making it to New Year's Every single one of them is planning to announce these cuts as "AI transformation success stories" While their stock options vest at record highs built on the backs of workers they're about to execute The future of engineering is 3 humans with 50 AI agents in a WeWork somewhere while 500 families lose their homes

@Akintola_steve Your numbers gives partial view only. If you want to know the reason, check how may employees these companies added in last 4 year

Something is happening in tech right now that a lot of people are ignoring. And it’s not small.

@tanujDE3180 Or may be he can start posting useless fake AI generated stories on X like you

My friend who was impacted in the recent Oracle layoffs 8 years at the company ~28 LPA consistently strong performance One morning → system access gone No proper conversation just a formal mail I called him expecting frustration He said something unexpected: “Honestly… I feel lighter.” He’s moving back to his hometown Planning to work on his family’s grocery business. After years of chasing releases, deadlines, and promotions He just wants control over his time No sprint planning no late-night calls Just slower, real work Sometimes a layoff doesn’t ruin your plans It reveals what you actually wanted all along

@TechLayoffLover Yeh yeh yeh - Don’t you get tired of writing these Fake made up stories 😋

Had dinner with 30 CTOs last week at an invite-only summit in Austin Every single conversation landed on the same spreadsheet they're all working from "AI Headcount Optimization Targets by Q3 2026" The numbers made my fucking stomach turn Average engineering org that was 180 people in 2024 is planned for 47 people by Christmas One CTO showed me his deck: current team of 230 engineers becomes 31 "AI-augmented senior architects" plus offshore execution Another walked through their "human replacement roadmap" - 340 engineers today, 89 planned survivors, same product output expected The brutal part: every single one said their board is demanding these cuts regardless of revenue performance Profitable companies. Growing companies. Doesn't matter. One CTO literally said "we could be printing money and I'd still need to hit these AI efficiency targets" The median target across all 30 conversations: 74% headcount reduction by end of 2026 Same productivity. Same delivery schedules. Just AI doing what humans used to do. These aren't layoffs anymore. This is systematic elimination of the software engineering profession. If you're still coding for a living, you have 18 months to figure out what comes next Because your CTO already has

@BasuNivesh Don’t worry about the - those people will easily get another job in next few months. You can focus on selling your stuff and continue with your useless posts

Learnings from Oracle layoff.. Those who committed for long term EMI assuming their income will be safe for the next 5, 10, or 15 years are in reality educated but WHITE COLLAR FINANCIAL ILLITERATE.

@vaneshmali Fake Stories with Fake friends - Too much of AI generated slop nowadays 🤦

One of my friend got laid off from Oracle. Talked with him yesterday. His package was 37 lpa. Worked for the company for 10 years. Given his 100%. Contributed to the growth of the company. And what he got after 10 years - immediate termination without any notice or call. But he is still calm. He said "I am fine with this. Actually I am happy. Now I will not work for any IT company. I will focus on Farming. Will help my father and family in Farming." He has invested good amount of money while working 9-5. And he left his IT job happily. ( layoff made him happy 😊 ).

@TechLayoffLover Again fake AI stories

She eliminated 9 people from her team using Copilot and Claude Went from 12 engineers to 3. Same sprint velocity. Actually shipped faster. Management called her "the future of engineering leadership" Got a $40k raise and promotion to Senior EM in September Spent the last four months presenting her "AI-augmented team efficiency" model to other directors Tuesday at 4 PM she gets a calendar invite: "Workforce Planning Discussion" Same conference room where she delivered the news to her team Her skip-level walks in with the same fucking PowerPoint template she used "We're restructuring the management layer to be more AI-native" Turns out they don't need 8 engineering managers when AI can coordinate 3-person teams Her own playbook is getting used to cut her throat The VP who promoted her just explained how one senior director with the right AI tools can manage what used to require 4 EMs She's getting two weeks severance and a LinkedIn recommendation The 3 engineers she kept? They're getting a new manager Monday Some 28-year-old who built his entire career on prompt engineering and has never managed humans before The future she built just ate her alive

@hellonehha @vinikatyal Just check with how much he pays for compulsory Insurance in UK every year and you will start finding Indian health care cheaper. Even for this reason there is a team in India - Medical Tourism

@vinikatyal actually, in this case it is not. If he would be in the UK then this would be 100% free for him. as he is an NRI, all the billing would be in gbp and international rates will be applicable on him.

NRI cousin landed Delhi 2 days ago. After a day, started having breathing issues. Took hospital and found blood clot in heart and now going through surgery. He traveled w/o health insurance. This mistake is going to put huge/deep hole in saving. Please travel with health insurance 🙏🏽

I borrowed 50k from Dad and 50k from Mum to buy a laptop that costs 97k. After the purchase, I had 3k left. I returned 1k to Dad and 1k to Mum, and I reserved 1k for myself. I now owe Dad 49k and Mum 49k also. 49k + 49k = 98k plus 1k I reserved for myself, which is 99k. So where did 1k go..?