> Software engineers are getting laid off because of advancements made by AI.

This is said by a lot of CEOs trying to make layoffs look good, but I haven’t seen anything that suggests that it’s true.

> Yet I see far more of these blogs about the plight of mathematicians, not enough about the plight of software engineers.

Really?!? We’ve been living through 3 years of blog posts, LinkedIn hot takes, and podcasts talking about the plight of software engineers in the era of AI. There isn’t a week that goes by without an HN post about it.

I can feel empathy for the practitioners in a field that may have been profoundly changed, the same way I can feel empathy toward software engineers who are struggling with the changes in their own field.

In the end, we’re all trying to figure out where this leads. And how this will affect our lives and our work.