Comment by daxfohl

I was there for three years. Every year a new top-level initiative, every year the new initiative failed to make a dent in the market. I think this shift was just an admission that the business is now in maintenance mode, harden up the existing cash cows and drop the new initiatives. That said, the existence of AI will impede hiring because if investors say "you should look into blub!", corp can say "our AI is already looking into it," rather than keeping extra humans on hand.