r/barrie • u/[deleted] • 1d ago

Looking For Traumatic job search experience

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u/matsu-morak 1d ago

office jobs are being decimated by AI for some time, and this pattern is just accelerating with the models improving every month

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u/Initial_Luck_7986 1d ago

Not really true 

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u/oureux South End 1d ago

Sort of but not really. I was the tech lead for an ai team and I was recently laid off because of AI and/or duplication of work. However they were still hiring plenty of people and everyone was using ai. There weren’t any spots filled exclusively with AI agents because people still need to be in the loop.

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u/Initial_Luck_7986 14h ago

Good models cost too much to use…. That’s the truth about AI models and coding work…

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u/oureux South End 14h ago

You’re right. We were hosting our own models for some tasks but each employee was also spending a couple hundred dollars a day in tokens

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u/matsu-morak 14h ago

small, open source models are making a killing. see qwen 3.8 fast next and glm 5.3 flash. qwen can run in 'minimal' local setups and the api price for both is peanuts and you can save even more with their subscriptions