Microsoft’s recent layoffs have hit software engineers the hardest, just as the company pushes aggressively into AI-driven coding. According to a CNBC report, the tech giant announced cuts affecting roughly 6,000 employees globally. But internal data reveals a disturbing trend: over 40 per cent of the layoffs in Washington state targeted software engineers, as per a Bloomberg analysis. Even more unsettling? Some of these engineers were reportedly instructed months earlier to increase their reliance on AI tools, only to later find themselves out of a job as the very technology they helped integrate replaced their roles.
