Comment by SahAssar
15 hours ago
> Their internal AI use is exploding, which is a signal that they need to structure for that, and so they’re laying people off as one of the first steps towards actioning that signal.
I don't see anywhere where the jump from "structuring for AI" directly leads to "laying people off", unless "structuring for AI" means there is less work for people to do, do you?
I think it means - we're spending more money on AI thus we don't have as much to spend on people
This will surely end well
They have been hiring like crazy year after year. Undoing 1 year of hiring is not the end of the world.
Noone knows what the correct structure for this new world looks like. We’ll see what they end up hiring for. But it’s fairly standard to lay off a bunch of people and hire new, rather than retrain, when you need to restructure