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The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't

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Re: The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't

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It is a little ironic that this article reads so much like an AI-generated one.

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I'd think they're generally being interviewed by millennials, who I'd rate as more tech savvy than Gen Z so not sure that tracks.

Re: The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't

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Cutting people because of AI makes no sense, you know these people are good without AI, you'd want to keep them! Freeze the constant over-hiring instead, and take care of the people you know aren't lobotomized yet, and train them if needed. I'm seeing so much shedding of knowledge workers though, even though AI clearly isn't ready to replace people, just ready to augment them currently, that it looks like looney-tunes currently.

Re: The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't

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I still think AI is just a cover story for these job cuts. Tech companies are still "rightsizing" after unsustainable growth during the pandemic. At the same time we're clearly headed into a recession.

Investors like growth, not shrinkage. Claiming AI is replacing those jobs helps avoid the appearence of shrinkage, while also feeding the AI hype machine that many of these companies have invested heavily into.

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