At my shop, I'm witnessing first hand AI adoption actually save jobs not replace them.
I work in an IT organization probably 200-300 people, and we've been mandated for a couple of years now to all get trained up on AI and try to find ways to implement it in our daily workflow. To these ends, I've had access to ChatGPT Enterprise but more importantly for what we do, Github Copilot. Most of my adoption until recently has been simply enjoying the inline predictive text feature in my daily workhorse IDE IntelliJ. Wary and slow adopter, certainly an appreciator of the technology if only from my specific perspective alone (in how I use it vs anything to do with image generation etc). I'm definitly not a "Vibe Coder".
Anyway, about those jobs. Since mandating everyone get trained up and at least somewhat literate around AI -- I've really come to appreciate how suddenly capable and churning in pretty decent and robust work whereas before I have to admit I was pretty concerned for a few of my teammates whose true coding chops are a bit lacking to say the least. It's like Office Space. They're simple people but family people.
I've just been witnessing AI really help these dingdongs out.
Most people in my shop are too dumb to be able to do the kind of prompt engineering necessary for "vibe coding" to be reliable in its output.
Posted Aug 12, 2026, 3:16 AM UTC