# Are Julia programmers still needed?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/are-julia-programmers-still-needed/128499
**Category:** Offtopic
**Tags:** ai
**Created:** [April 28, 2025, 5:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/are-julia-programmers-still-needed/128499 "2025-04-28T17:22:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2025, 5:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/are-julia-programmers-still-needed/128499/1 "2025-04-28T17:22:50Z")
Uf. Looks like we could hold on to our jobs for a while longer…
[An Entire Company Was Staffed With AI Agents and You’ll Never Guess What Happened](https://futurism.com/professors-company-ai-agents)
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### Author:  [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/are-julia-programmers-still-needed/128499/2 "2025-04-28T17:40:40Z")
What I take away from reading is that “the worst AI employee was from Amazon,” which isn’t surprising since the company is known as the worst employer in Big Tech (and beyond).
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### Author:  [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2025, 7:36pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/are-julia-programmers-still-needed/128499/3 "2025-04-28T19:36:18Z")
[](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/28/maga-iq-inhuman-future-intelligence-ai)
Really!? Or will it make a mess?
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### Author:  [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2025, 8:17am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/are-julia-programmers-still-needed/128499/4 "2025-04-29T08:17:54Z")
I recently learned a new term: slopsquatting.
> **[AI code suggestions sabotage software supply chain](https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_code_suggestions_sabotage_supply_chain/)**
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> : Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'