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Firing programmers for AI is a mistake

Ah, the tech industry.

But here’s the thing—if you think cutting programmers in favor of AI is a genius move, you might want to remember the last time a company fired all its engineers: it ended in lawsuits, product failures, and a desperate rehiring spree. Once upon a time, aspiring programmers cut their teeth on real problems—fixing code, breaking systems, and learning from grizzled veterans who’d been through a thousand production crises. And when companies realize AI isn't magic, being just a bunch of tokenized words in line (prove me wrong on that), they'll scramble to find actual programmers who know what they're doing.

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