Comment by serf

this reasoning is flawed.

wouldn't a for-profit company just balance the workforce for the productivity gained to increase overall profit?

some person is 10x 'more productive' (whatever that means) , let's cut 9 jobs.

Although to your grander point, employment during the LLM-embrace period seems fairly stable.[0]

[0]: https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/msft/employees/