81–90 of 135 posts
What's even weirder is the Founder of canonical has a #hiring badge on their LinkedIn profile. What kind of message is that?
I’ve just been thinking about this and would like to ask those of you with more experience in the industry: do you prepare yourselves in any way for crises? Do you have any techniques for dealing with uncertainty? Let’s say someone is entering the IT job market today. How should they prepare for the responsibilities of adulthood, starting a family, buying (perhaps on a mortgage?) their first flat, and planning for a…
(Source: I'm one of the 21,000, let go via a 6am email after 15 years with the company in engineering and management roles.)
A friend met with Oracle salesdroids (his company has spent a few million with them in the last few years). They told him everything is oriented towards AI, to the point that otherwise profitable software is not being updated and development has stopped on anything new. Oracle has a lot of niche solutions and the one my friend’s corporation uses is profitable but not on the AI path, so it is being put into maintenanc…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
IMO it’s not sudden, the AI excuses have been gradual and ramping up for a couple years now.
Maybe because the models keep getting better and the tools are slowly getting good enough to replace people? Keep in mind we’re talking about oracle here, it’s not like we’re talking about humanity’s best and brightest.
It's a very convenient excuse, especially given the apparent lack of public backlash to it, compared to, say, "the business isn't profitable and we need to save money."
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> What's stopping anyone else from using AI and eat into Oracle's market? Open source databases have already been doing this for decades. You can’t just clone its products and expect to eliminate it. Oracle is driven by a strong sales culture and ruthless business strategy.
And why AI can't do all that? Apparently it can be a doctor, engineer, musician etc. but when it comes to do the jobs of certain class of people suddenly can't do that. It doesn't add up, maybe sales isn't as impossible to learn and do?
I’ve just been thinking about this and would like to ask those of you with more experience in the industry: do you prepare yourselves in any way for crises? Do you have any techniques for dealing with uncertainty? Let’s say someone is entering the IT job market today. How should they prepare for the responsibilities of adulthood, starting a family, buying (perhaps on a mortgage?) their first flat, and planning for a…
There's really nothing special about the current situation. Throughout history, jobs have been rarely anything close to guaranteed. You save a good deal of cash for emergencies, live below your means, keep your skill set up to date and face the world.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's really nothing special about the current situation. Throughout history, jobs have been rarely anything close to guaranteed. You save a good deal of cash for emergencies, live below your means, keep your skill set up to date and face the world.
The speed of change is what’s special this time. Careers are being eliminated faster than people can reskill or change careers.
What’s crazy is how Oracle’s free cash flows have gone from “money-printing machine” to deep in the red due to their data center investments. My guess is that some of those cuts are to try to balance that?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
IIRC, WARN filings in NYC require to indicate whether lay-offs were due to AI. None of the filings of the past year checked that box [1] [1] https://www.hrgrapevine.com/us/content/article/2026-02-11-ai...
We had the cops investigate themselves and they found no evidence of wrong-doing.
A friend met with Oracle salesdroids (his company has spent a few million with them in the last few years). They told him everything is oriented towards AI, to the point that otherwise profitable software is not being updated and development has stopped on anything new. Oracle has a lot of niche solutions and the one my friend’s corporation uses is profitable but not on the AI path, so it is being put into maintenanc…
That's rational. Oracle has bet the farm on AI, if they don't make it work they will fail.