{"slug": "ask-hn-is-the-ai-boom-merely-another-excuse-for-layoffs", "title": "Ask HN: Is the AI \"Boom\" Merely Another Excuse for Layoffs?", "summary": "A Hacker News user questioned whether the artificial intelligence boom is being used as a justification for corporate layoffs, noting that most hiring occurred during the pandemic and job cuts in 2023-2025 have not yet erased those gains. The user pointed to a CEO who eliminated the entire HR team as evidence that executives are using AI to solve problems they created, while predicting that the number of developers companies need will decline over time.", "body_md": "Most of the hiring done in the last 5 years was the so called \"pandemic boom\". Even though we already saw a lot of job shedding in 23, 24, 25, the number of jobs created during the pandemic still eclipses these numbers. I think a lot can be read into on the CEO that \"removed the HR team\" to solve problems they created.\n\nI'll say this though, over time the number of developers companies will need will be dipping.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-is-the-ai-boom-merely-another-excuse-for-layoffs", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325627", "published_at": "2026-05-29 16:39:13+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-29 17:19:01.964818+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence"], "entities": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-is-the-ai-boom-merely-another-excuse-for-layoffs", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-is-the-ai-boom-merely-another-excuse-for-layoffs.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-is-the-ai-boom-merely-another-excuse-for-layoffs.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-is-the-ai-boom-merely-another-excuse-for-layoffs.jsonld"}}