I was reading this recent @OpenAI article about Gartner naming OpenAI a Leader in enterprise AI coding agents: https://openai.com/index/gartner....
"Software development is becoming more agentic." This is a good summary of what is happening right now. We are moving from AI that helps you write faster, to AI that can take over tasks (actions, use tools, make changes, run tests, and bring the work back for human review). That is a very different behavior. The article gives Cisco as an example. They used Codex for a big part of their AI Defense platform and reduced delivery time from several quarters to a few weeks.
Today, I saw several times on X the case of Meta asking its employees to stay home because they were going to announce layoffs. These two statuses in particular caught my attention (Tweet 1) and (Tweet 2). posts are about Meta layoffs
It seems that with the intention of helping companies (and a little bit of fear of not being fired), we are collaborating on a project that will replace us. So the question here is not "if" but "when". And presumably, if the employees refused, someone else would be found to do it.
