CEOs have been blowing smoke for as long as CEOs have existed.
this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2026
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The one thing I am gleefully waiting for is the inevitable price gouging.
I am refusing to use AI as much as possible, I work hard to keep my skills independent of AI, so when the pivot happens I am not dependent on it.
Same, trying to ride that line between becoming a brain dead AI-zombie and a luddite..
Reminder - AI does not need to be able to replace anyone to lead to layoffs. All it needs to be able to do is increase productivity in some sector by some measurable or perceived, or expected amount.
Or just eat up all the budget.
In an healthy company with a long term outlook, increased productivity is used to increase revenue, not to cash in by reducing short term expenses.
Like outsourcing/offshoring development of software. (The problem with this isn't that people in cheaper places are dumber - they aren't - but that good software requires an enormous amount of coordination and communication, which is hampered by outsourcing).
Wow who could have guessed?
I don't get it, why is Lemmy obsessed with tech company layoffs?
Why are people, who populate the mainstream forward edge of the tech to regain collective ownership of online public spaces, "obsessed" with tech company layoffs? Why are all of these people, maybe a majority of them currently or formerly employed by that industry, following that industry? Is that your question, friend?
Maybe because they keep happening?