Will AI Replace Software Engineers? SignalFire's 80M-Company Study Says No
SignalFire tracked 80M+ companies: engineers are 55% of Big Tech hires, attrition is 9%, front-end roles dropped 25%. The real data on AI and dev jobs.
SignalFire tracked 80M+ companies: engineers are 55% of Big Tech hires, attrition is 9%, front-end roles dropped 25%. The real data on AI and dev jobs.
185K tech workers cut in 2026, 1,115 per day. Gartner surveyed 350 execs and found zero ROI correlation. Deutsche Bank calls it AI redundancy washing.
Junior developer employment fell 20% since 2024 while ML engineer openings surged 59%. Stanford, BLS, and Forrester data on who's being cut and what works.
ML engineer roles up 59% from 2020, general SWE openings down 49%. Dice, CompTIA, and BLS data shows a 2026 market split by AI fluency. Salaries included.