We're about to find out whether AI might replace those 200,000 laid-off tech workers as Silicon Valley prioritizes efficiency

• Silicon Valley is culling its workforce — just as there are major advances in AI.
• AI models like GPT-4 are capable of coding, writing applications, and making art.
• As companies like Meta and Twitter get leaner, AI could replace those engineers.

The biggest cull of workers in the tech industry's history, combined with big leaps forward in the development of artificial intelligence means we'll soon have an answer to a pressing question: Whether AI will replace jobs and make a bunch of us kind of….redundant at work.

There are several developments that mean we'll find out sooner rather than later.