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Klarna CEO: Company stopped hiring because AI 'can do all of the jobs'

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Re: Klarna CEO: Company stopped hiring because AI 'can do all of the jobs'

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Post by caseyy »

MadDemon wrote: post #6
orlp wrote: post #3

I'd suggest him to lead by example and fire himself.

In the article it says that they are shrinking the workforce by not replacing the naturally churning people (20% per year), rather than firing people.

20% attrition sounds like pretty on the edge of quiet firing.

Re: Klarna CEO: Company stopped hiring because AI 'can do all of the jobs'

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Post by Mistletoe »

All the HN posters love AI and sing its praises to the heavens until these articles are launched and it becomes reality, and the real reason tech wants AI so badly is revealed haha.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” -Upton Sinclair

Re: Klarna CEO: Company stopped hiring because AI 'can do all of the jobs'

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Post by Maxion »

bananadonkey wrote: post #13

> Though Klarna's website is advertising open positions at the time of writing, a spokesperson told Business Insider the company wasn't "actively recruiting" to expand its workforce. Rather, the spokesperson said, Klarna is backfilling "some essential roles," primarily in engineering.

I am not applying for a job, I'm just trying to get backfilled!

Re: Klarna CEO: Company stopped hiring because AI 'can do all of the jobs'

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Post by ablation »

jamil7 wrote: post #15

Was it ever a good place to work? When they opened their Berlin office the word was the mobile team was a revolving door of contractors doing append-only development on a monolithic RN app. It already seemed dysfunctional then.

For a buy-now-pay-later business, it has aggressive narrative-shaping PR that seeks to paint it as something more. And most tech news outlets seems to regurgitate it willingly.

Re: Klarna CEO: Company stopped hiring because AI 'can do all of the jobs'

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Post by emseetech »

ablation wrote: post #20

Nearly every CEO I’ve talked to in the past three months (only a handful, admittedly) has said something along these lines, if not quite as extreme. They genuinely believed the current state of the art is polished and powerful enough to replace huge swathes of coders, designers, writers, etc. leaving only a middle-management supervisory layer and some lower-level grunts to herd the bots. Or it’s a good PR ruse to sca…

I'm open to the idea they see something I don't.

I'm not convinced, but I'm open to it.

Re: Klarna CEO: Company stopped hiring because AI 'can do all of the jobs'

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Post by hyperman1 »

First time I tried Klarna, their 'payment' workflow was actually a 'grant full access to all bank accounts' workflow in disguise. I was thinking this amount of misleading must be illegal. Further interactions with them always felt sleazy.

Maybe they know the regulators will dismantle the company in the near future and are optimizing for extracting the maximum before their implosion?

Re: Klarna CEO: Company stopped hiring because AI 'can do all of the jobs'

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Post by arcticbull »

emseetech wrote: post #27
ablation wrote: post #20

Nearly every CEO I’ve talked to in the past three months (only a handful, admittedly) has said something along these lines, if not quite as extreme. They genuinely believed the current state of the art is polished and powerful enough to replace huge swathes of coders, designers, writers, etc. leaving only a middle-management supervisory layer and some lower-level grunts to herd the bots. Or it’s a good PR ruse to sca…

I'm open to the idea they see something I don't. I'm not convinced, but I'm open to it.

They see dollar signs
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