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I hate this article. We have tiktok and views and all the other bullshit.
Gotta say if you are posting on tiktok and using it I wouldn't hire you.
But more importantly this trend was happening before AI. The layoffs are an adjustment, or more bluntly a chance to cut to shore up profits and defend mismanagement and bad decisions: like using AI as a sudden company resource.
It sucks, but the writing was on the wall that this field was saturated for a long time, and IT is cheap to outsource which doesn't help.
There are so many bigger picture problems with American companies that articles like these just gloss over the them.
There is no better time than right now for computer Science students and laid off workers to try and form guilds and collectives (small businesses really) that are poised to come in and fix the inevitable mess that is going to follow. Either in the US or to help the EU move away from the US.
If you are profient at making videos (fuck the term content creator) now might be the time to consider making ads and copy that is 100 percent obviously human and sell your services to companies who inevitably are going to try to spin themselves as human in the next 2 to 5 years.
I have noticed the better colleges have been pushing the computer science kids to learn project management as either an ability to use while working in teams, or as a fallback option.