www.fox2detroit.com/news/ford-ai-engineering-challenges-rehiring.amp (Sorry for fox link, the other one I have is paywalled)

I personally know people affected by this, they were let got and last week they got offers to fix a bunch of stuff that AI did and didn't do

Survivorship bias i suspect, the company needs to fuck up big enough for it to be worth noting, survive that fuck-up and then admit enough wrongdoing (fiscally, if nothing else) to be able to be in the situation where a story like that would come out.

I think we'll hear more over time, but as a thing that happened in the past.

Some companies might not survive to rehire, some might only just survive and rehiring isn't on the cards.

Some might limp forwards and work through without rehires.

watching companies fail because they thought ai would work is lol

no industry with half a brain thinks ai is going to replace their top workers

as to having an example of real life regret look up ford

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgrkd41n2v9o

Is your employer by chance hiring for junior/fresh engineers who won't use AI, or is using AI one of the job requirements?

Interesting. We laid off all of our junior engineers, and only kept senior people who are now expected to use AI for junior engineer tasks, then review it all and fix it all. Would be easier for me to just write it all myself rather than babysit some AI and argue with it when it fucks up.

I do not envy the people who will have to maintain that giant ball of vibe-coded shit, assuming the company still exists in the future after that mess inevitably blows up spectacularly.