You're right, of course. Most of this thread is some sort of weird motivated reasoning by people who are terrified of the reality of what lies ahead. I work at a top-10 tech company. We've stopped hiring junior talent, and it's 100% because of AI. I'm something like 2x more productive since using AI. We're now deploying agentic AI systems to further reduce headcount. The actual bloodbath will happen when there's any kind of financial pressure on the company (a recession).