> The Developer Extinction Event Is Not a Metaphor

Oracle just fired 30,000 people to fund AI datacenters. This is not restructuring, this is organ harvesting. They are taking the bodies of employed developers and converting them into compute budget.

AAA game studios lost two thirds of their workforce. 74% of game dev students fear for their careers. Artist AI sentiment went from 18% unfavorable to 52% in two years. Executives remain optimistic. See the problem.

CS employment ages 22 to 25 is down 20% from the 2022 peak. Total US programmer employment fell 27.5% between 2023 and 2025. The junior pipeline is being destroyed. Teams that were 12 people are now 4. QA departments eliminated entirely by Claude API calls.

The 570K engineers are building the tools that replace the 80K engineers. The pyramid is eating itself from the bottom.

Nobody is coming to save the pipeline. The hiring page is a museum exhibit now.