Global tech layoffs are accelerating in 2026, with more than 80,000 jobs already cut in the first quarter and total losses likely to exceed 3 lakh this year, led by companies like Oracle, Amazon, and Meta, according to a report.
The dream is deskilling, not necessarily making workers faster or more efficient. Instead of relying on highly skilled employees who have tons of leverage because of their experience and education, they’d be able to just put anyone on the keyboard to review and troubleshoot the chatbot’s outputs. They essentially want coding to require as much skill as any other assembly line work.
I mean they want that, but it’s just not happening with the way the tech works right now. Unless you have a deep understanding of the problem you have the model solve, then you have no way to evaluate whether it solved it correctly or not. And it’s basically like an evil genie where it will interpret your request in a dumbest way possible by default. So, you get god results when you already know what the shape of the solution should be, and you give the model concrete direction on the approach to take, algorithms to use, and so on. And that’s why the whole idea of deskilling workers or replacing them with automation is not really working out. You’d need genuine artificial intelligence for that and LLMs aren’t it.
The dream is deskilling, not necessarily making workers faster or more efficient. Instead of relying on highly skilled employees who have tons of leverage because of their experience and education, they’d be able to just put anyone on the keyboard to review and troubleshoot the chatbot’s outputs. They essentially want coding to require as much skill as any other assembly line work.
I mean they want that, but it’s just not happening with the way the tech works right now. Unless you have a deep understanding of the problem you have the model solve, then you have no way to evaluate whether it solved it correctly or not. And it’s basically like an evil genie where it will interpret your request in a dumbest way possible by default. So, you get god results when you already know what the shape of the solution should be, and you give the model concrete direction on the approach to take, algorithms to use, and so on. And that’s why the whole idea of deskilling workers or replacing them with automation is not really working out. You’d need genuine artificial intelligence for that and LLMs aren’t it.
that’s still not possible though, you need to know what to ask, you need to have some idea of how programmes work, etc.