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Every major tech company that has laid off devs and will absolutely continue doing so. Smart devs gain insane amounts of productivity out of it, and that's only accelerating.
Entry-level hiring has plummeted, with no signs of that changing. They don't care what happens in 5-10 when they need new mid- or senior-level devs. It won't be their problem by then.
What you’re disregarding is Covid era over hiring, higher interest rates, and the world wide tariffs that killed off the labor market. There was a downward trend well before OpenAI launched Chat and kicked off the LLM/AI hype train. There have been the most layoffs this year since 2020 on top of that.