Why Companies Are Quietly Rehiring Software Engineers...

Is the rumour true that companies fired their developers, replaced them with AI, and are now quietly hiring them back? In this episode of Modern Software Engineering, Dave Farley takes a look at the data to bust the myths surrounding tech layoffs, AI vs developer productivity, and what is really happening in the software development job market. While headlines claim AI vs software engineering is a done deal, actual controlled experiments reveal a massive gap between perception and reality. Discover why developers were measurably 19% slower when coding with AI assistants, and why relying on automated tools without human expertise can increase critical vulnerabilities by up to 40%. We dive deep into the crucial difference between programming and software engineering. Key Topics Covered: The truth behind the ai layoffs and rehiring headlines. Data from real randomised controlled trials on coding with ai. Why the market is repricing pure programming but paying more for software engineering. The technical debt trap: how code duplication and security risks accumulate with AI. - 🎓 OUR GUIDE TO GETTING YOUR NEXT JOB: Advice and tips for you to think about: the type of organisation that might be the best fit for you, the questions YOU might want to ask at interview, and, possible ‘red flags’ that mean you should probably give that job or employer a wide berth! Get your guide HERE ➡️ https://www.subscribepage.com/get-you... - Dave on: X ➡️ https://x.com/davefarley77 LinkedIn ➡️   / dave-farley-a67927   bluesky ➡️ https://bsky.app/profile/davefarley77... Modern Software Engineering on X ➡️ https://x.com/ModernSoftwareX Modern Software Engineering on LinkedIn ➡️   / modern-software-engineering   Modern Software Engineering on bluesky ➡️ https://bsky.app/profile/modernswe.bs... - ⭐ PATREON: Join the Continuous Delivery community and access extra perks & content! ➡️ https://bit.ly/ContinuousDeliveryPatreon 🎥 Join Us On TikTok ➡️   / modern.s.engineering   - 👕 T-SHIRTS: A fan of the T-shirts I wear in my videos? Grab your own, at reduced prices EXCLUSIVE TO CONTINUOUS DELIVERY FOLLOWERS! Get money off the already reasonably priced t-shirts! 🔗 Check out their collection HERE: ➡️ https://bit.ly/3Uby9iA 🚨 DON'T FORGET TO USE THIS DISCOUNT CODE: ContinuousDelivery - CHANNEL SPONSORS: Octopus Deploy sets the standard for Continuous Delivery (CD), empowering software teams to deliver value in an agile way. Globally, more than 4,000 organizations rely on its Continuous Delivery, GitOps, and release orchestration solutions to deliver swift value to their customers. Octopus efficiently orchestrates software delivery across multi-cloud, Kubernetes, data centers, and hybrid environments, whether containerized modern apps or heritage applications. With governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) at its core, Octopus supports Platform Engineering teams in their mission to provide a superior developer experience (DevEx). Octopus also actively contributes to the developer community with open-source projects. ➡️ https://bit.ly/MSExOCTDEP Equal Experts is a product software development consultancy with a network of over 1,000 experienced technology consultants globally. They increase the pace of innovation by using modern software engineering practices that embrace Continuous Delivery, Security, and Operability from the outset ➡️ https://bit.ly/3ASy8n0 TransFICC provides low-latency connectivity, automated trading workflows and e-trading systems for Fixed Income and Derivatives. TransFICC resolves the issue of market fragmentation by providing banks and asset managers with a unified low-latency, robust and scalable API, which provides connectivity to multiple trading venues while supporting numerous complex workflows across asset classes such as Rates and Credit Bonds, Repos, Mortgage-Backed Securities and Interest Rate Swaps ➡️ https://transficc.com - #softwareengineer #softwareengineering #claudecode #coding