This tracks how I think about the situation. It’s way too early to associate jobs to automation or augmentation.

Targeting AI exposed jobs in layoffs with the hope that efficiencies will follow has been the talk track of C-suite execs for months. If those efficiencies don’t materialize, we might be talking about an AI fueled boom for coders in a year or two, but the reality would be companies cut deeper than they could sustain and equilibrium needed to be reestablished while AI did little to nothing.