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Amazon cuts 16k jobs

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Post by learingsci »

aprilthird2021 wrote: post #666
learingsci wrote: post #562

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GDP matters very little when I’m homeless.

If you're homeless due to losing your job, then you'll be homeless whether your job goes overseas or to someone else in the US. At least in the latter scenario the job is still here for you to get back one day

Based on the "Worst Case Housing Needs: 2025 Report to Congress" released in late 2025, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) found that foreign-born population growth accounted for approximately two-thirds of the increase in nationwide rental demand between 2021 and 2024.

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Post by dlcarrier »

riddlemethat wrote: post #3
1970-01-01 wrote: post #2

AI is just the disguise. It's the economy, just like it is in every recession.

AI is genuinely good at hallucinating. So is middle management. Probably displacing some of those jobs.

It's also great at writing programs that kind-of, sort-of mostly work, just like human programmers: https://xkcd.com/2030/

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Post by lovich »

irishcoffee wrote: post #866
lovich wrote: post #543

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, in that case no w-2 employee pays income taxes, their employer does. I guess we’re all just mooches on society and only the company owners do anything.

Ah, you arrived at the point. Undocumented people don't pay taxes in a W2.

No, they just pay sales tax and other taxes on use. I was being sarcastic because you are fundamentally incorrect and as the other comment said, engaging in sophistry.

Disrespectfully, get fucked.

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Post by dlcarrier »

levocardia wrote: post #547
dzonga wrote: post #375

Insightful Comment from X - https://xcancel.com/PlumbNick/status/2016500347053773198?s=2... I was an L7, I led global AI enablement. I built systems executives depended on, moved wherever the company needed me and fixed problems that had been sitting untouched because no one else could untangle them. And I was still cut. Here’s the part we’re all supposed to politely ignore: in the U.S. right now, experience isn’t an…

What's especially funny is that the post reads exactly like it was written by an AI.

He's writing in the academic/upper-class style that it's training data focused on.

I'm convinced that one of the largest frictions to common use of LLMs is that it translates everyone's writing to the that same style. Having it punch-up or flesh-out your proposal or outline, or whatever, isn't really adding any new material, but it's translating it to a writing style that has historically been exclusive and difficult to learn, and that difference in style is what made the original text sub-par, from the perspective of academia and members the upper class.

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Post by dlcarrier »

elteto wrote: post #767
dzonga wrote: post #375

Insightful Comment from X - https://xcancel.com/PlumbNick/status/2016500347053773198?s=2... I was an L7, I led global AI enablement. I built systems executives depended on, moved wherever the company needed me and fixed problems that had been sitting untouched because no one else could untangle them. And I was still cut. Here’s the part we’re all supposed to politely ignore: in the U.S. right now, experience isn’t an…

A pro-labor republican that worked on global AI enablement. So many contradictions that they almost cancel all out!

The two major US parties are in the midst of another swap of which is conservative and which is liberal.

Marin County California, probably the area most heavily voting for the Democrat party, is clearly the most classically conservative part of the country, allowing almost no development and strongly objecting to even the slightest offenses in speech, whereas rural counties in the south want classically liberal safety nets and protections and heavily vote for the Republican party.

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Post by taurath »

cmiles8 wrote: post #154

Amazon is flailing at this point and now in a pattern of mass layoffs every 3-6 months. Not good. Leadership can’t even gets its story straight about why… “It’s AI” correction “Pandemic over-hiring” correction “delayering” correction “restoring our culture” correction “actually AI!”. There’s a whole mess of rando projects and teams with bloated management layers and often little to show for it revenue wise. While on…

Meanwhile the core public use products and platforms are pretty poor. Tried shopping for clothes or anything on Amazon? 9/10ths of any page is ads, you can’t find anything you’re looking for.

It’s getting real close to “we’re customer obsessed, and our shareholders are our real customers”

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Post by cyberdick »

pessimizer wrote: post #678
throwaway-11-1 wrote: post #594

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The people benefitting from the profits accumulated from layoffs would never allow their margins to be cut by having to pay for UBI. Why do people act like this even remotely on the political horizon? There will simply be an even larger underclass and the wealthy enclaves will build higher walls. “At least the companies will be more efficient” is such a cucked take, insane

This is goofy. Your job isn't special and this already happened to a lot of other people while coders were laughing in libertarian. It doesn't suddenly get real when it happens to you. The people whose jobs were shipped overseas were physically stronger and less sheltered than you. If they couldn't stop it, your pencil arms and retreat into revolutionary cosplay fantasy certainly doesn't bode well for you. They weren…

#TrvthNvke

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Post by lotsofpulp »

Loughla wrote: post #338
antonyh wrote: post #136

I'm outside the US, and boycotting Amazon for anything I can get elsewhere (which turns out isn't everything, but best efforts and all that). The shift towards AI is either a very bad thing (as per Microslop and the raft of recent articles about quality dropping), or just a cheap excuse to replace expensive staff with cheaper people. Alternatively they may be using AI in HR as part of the decision making, and it's ma…

I have yet to find something on Amazon that I can't find on either eBay, straight from the retailer, or B&H. And usually for less money.

Free returns are Amazon’s value.
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