Welcome to this week's Top 7, where the DEV editorial team handpicks their favorite posts from the previous week (Saturday-Friday). Congrats to all the authors that made it onto the list 👏 @syedahmershah breaks down the recent wave of tech layoffs, arguing that profitable companies like Meta and Oracle aren't cutting people out of financial distress but to convert payroll directly into GPU infrastructure. The post examines what this shift means for developers early in their careers and which skills are becoming more valuable as a result. @suesmith revisits an earlier piece on abstractions through the lens of AI-assisted code generation, examining what gets hidden from developers when automation makes decisions on their behalf. The post raises pointed questions about accountability, empowerment, and what it truly means to enable someone to build software.…