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"We're nowhere near the point where an AI can do your job, but we're well past the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job." (Pl (pluralistic.net)

submitted 10 months ago by mozz@mbin.grits.dev to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[–] KRAW@linux.community 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The tech layoffs are not related to industry replacing those jobs with AI. Tech overhired and now they are adjusting. Simple as that.

[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Untrue. They overhired and were content to keep building up warchests of IP using those drones, then a billionaire wrote them a tersely worded letter and they responded by acting in solidarity (conspiring actually) to force austerity on famously well-compensated tech workers who they feel they can AT LEAST partially be replaced by AI.

[–] hobovision@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Reading stuff like this is so crazy. They just go "hey 150k is a nice big number and should be plenty of heads, let's just just take way the livelihoods of tens of thousands of actual people to make a number look nicer"

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

At least they didn't choose 100k or 10k

/s partially

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

NPR suggests the tech layoffs of 2024 are just companies following the bandwagon and shareholders frenzying over it...

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/28/1227326215/nearly-25-000-tech-workers-laid-off-in-the-first-weeks-of-2024-whats-going-on