In 2024, they used AI (artificial intelligence) to reduce entry level engineers, and in the process created a huge surplus of software engineers in the industry. It is so bad that you can find ex-Facebook engineers for hire at Upwork and Fiverr.
In 2025, they now want to go after middle level engineers: “Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Meta, has announced his plan to replace mid-level engineers with AI at Meta Labs in 2025. The Meta CEO ignited debate within the tech world by predicting that artificial intelligence will reach proficiency in coding equivalent to mid-level engineers by 2025.”
When they turned the AI magic in 2024, they distorted a business model which has helped startups in developing places like Africa and India to send engineers to US and Western Europe. By AI doing those jobs now, that business model has expired, and most of those players have collapsed or are about to collapse.
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But they are not stopping there: they now want the engineers ahead of those they have taken care of in 2024, to also go. But do you know the painful part of this episode? The current engineers are being tasked to create the AI systems that will displace them.
Is that not similar to the Stage which Obama used against Romney in the US presidential election, where Romney bought a company, asked men to build a stage for a major announcement, arrived, and climbed the stage to FIRE those men!
Here’s the video. But this is not a stage; it is a reality coming to careers!
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