India, July 9 -- A chilling Reddit post has exposed the brutal reality of AI-driven job displacement after a developer claimed their mid-sized services company laid off nearly 90% of its team. Citing efficiency gains from Claude Fable 5, executives slashed a 70-person department down to just eight.

The Reddit user wrote, "Nearly entire team of ~70 laid off citing efficiency from Claude Fable, 8 of us remain. This is insane." Adding, "Mid-sized services company that employed a lot of devs pre-2023, hasn't hired since 2025. The writing was already on the wall because the number of projects drastically reduced, but today morning I get to know they laid off over 90% of the dev team."

The employee claimed, "CXOs basically saying Claude Fable...