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-Fran- I mean… This: "Some experts argue that AI was just used as an excuse for poor business decisions". You can simply reduce that to: "shareholder grunts for more money and exec made bad decisions, then sacrifice the lower levels until neck can't be saved". Even then, they still get golden parachutes. It's the history of humanity. Some people use Iwata as the golden standard, but… That was mostly due to Japanese law being very clear on how lay offs should be handled, which, to my memory, is rather unique to them. Yes, it was a nice gesture, but not as selfless as many want to portray it as. Regardless, what is the "normal" here? Against what number does this need to be compared? It's a high number, but given the size of the IT employee pool around the world, not sure how it compared to "normal" movement? I didn't see it mentioned in the article/news. I hope I'm not that blind. Regards. Reply
ezst036 I hope that the programmers who went along with creating their own AI replacements are the first to get fired. We know why the big wigs and power brokers want AI. Why did those at the bottom agree? No love. I got no love. People want to make their beds then complain that that's the bed the gotta sleep in. Well you did it!! What the heck. It's like who are the programmers who programmed in Google's spyware? Who are the programmers who programmed in Microsoft's spyware? Meta's spyware? Etc etc. Well if you are the programmer who created the spyware, you got no room to complain about your loss of security and confidentiality. None at all. Go eat your pizza, you baked the thing then you want to complain. Reply
Stomx Many who are not in the theme would be very surprized to find that in almost 100% cases the news about layoffs are met with the rise of stock prices by the respective shareholders. Hence be prepared: when AI reach the AGI nothing will stop the CEO at the request of shareholders to fire even the last employee. Reply
beyondlogic 2027 80,000 people rehired after ai botches something to stupid lol. Reply
palladin9479 It's all AI washing. Executives can do lay offs while claiming productivity increase to boost stock price. Reply
DougMcC ezst036 said: I hope that the programmers who went along with creating their own AI replacements are the first to get fired. We know why the big wigs and power brokers want AI. Why did those at the bottom agree? No love. I got no love. People want to make their beds then complain that that's the bed the gotta sleep in. Well you did it!! What the heck. It's like who are the programmers who programmed in Google's spyware? Who are the programmers who programmed in Microsoft's spyware? Meta's spyware? Etc etc. Well if you are the programmer who created the spyware, you got no room to complain about your loss of security and confidentiality. None at all. Go eat your pizza, you baked the thing then you want to complain. Sorry to disappoint you but those folks are in immense demand right now. Immense. The people being displaced are all the ones who know nothing about how to build useful stuff for AI. Reply
ejolson Given the impact of AI on the whole economy, it makes sense to me that many job layoffs are AI related. What not clear is which layoffs are because a company did not adopt AI and is no longer competitive, which layoffs are because AI made certain jobs redundant and which layoffs are because the company simply needs cash to buy more computers. Reply
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