Fable Took My Job
A former software engineer shares a personal account of being laid off and replaced by AI-driven automation tools. The narrative highlights the emotional toll of job loss and the broader industry trend of prioritizing cost-cutting over human expertise.
Why it matters
This reflects the growing anxiety among tech workers regarding the displacement of human labor by artificial intelligence and corporate restructuring.
Its true. In a manner of speaking. If LLMs had not reached Fable / Mythos tier of marketed intelligence, I'd probably still have a job with the place I used to be at. For a short while.
It wasn't that Fable was better at my job. As the last engineer, Fable was cheaper than my compensation. Evidently, it gave enough confidence to the last vestiges of leadership that they could coast until M&A.
I've been through layoffs driven by budget cuts. I had to mechanically justify "I need this person because this product I'm oversee is critical to the business and still needs ownership" against a budget ceiling. Those I trusted to build out a greenfield product had their positions eliminated. The status quo was more important to maintain than resolving our operational issues with the next generation of our infrastructure.
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