Beyond the Hype Cycle: How a Viral Developer Post Exposes AI's Real Threat to Professional Identity
Overview For the past year, anxiety about AI’s impact on tech jobs has been a low hum of speculation. That changed with a single, candid post on Reddit’s r/ClaudeAI. The thread, started by a developer who claimed a new AI model, “Opus 4.5,” is the first to make them “actually fear for my job,” went viral. It offers a raw, unfiltered look at a pivotal moment where awe at a new apex of creative generation is colliding with the raw, professional dread of commoditization. ...