Yep including mine. Entire team of 120, gone. It was in august, only one of us found a job so far. Merry Christmas! Tx asshole executives i hope your bonuses are not as lean as my xmas.
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Correction: AI was the excuse behind 50,000 layoffs.
Schrodinger's AI: It's both useless slop that serves no real purpose while simultaneously, it's actually good enough to replace people.
No, it's not a paradox, as it's both CEOs totally thinking it's the next great thing, and it's not good enough to replace people, but either way it's a hell of a good reason to cut labor for that next quarter bonus.
I take it back, it may not be the CEO that's the driving force usually, but the CTO/CIO who are trying to validate their existence.
No it wasn't, shitty bosses were and AI was their excuse.
I lead a lot of the AI work at my organization. Sr leadership is chomping at the bit to find an area to reduce headcount. It's just not there. Nobody can understand a solid enough ROI. Most all the companies say it saves time and can shave FTEs but there's no proof. If anything it added an entire section we had to fill expertise which has added headcount. Which data scientists for AI and engineers and architects who understand AI aren't cheap. Helluva lot more expensive than the jobs they're hoping to replace.
Hilariously the people LLMs could replace most cost effectively are probably management and higher. They’d probably do a better job too.
I did replace a bunch of tasks with “AI” this year, but none of those tasks are worth a full employee. They do save time so our employees can get more done.
Execs want me to build more AI tools, but frankly I’ve built all the ones which can be made reliable.
I pretty much use LLMs to manage jira for me.
Someone I work with uses the jira LLM to make the worst tickets I’ve ever seen though. They’re massive.
I write Jira tickets with what needs to be achieved and why, and usually my preferred method of doing it and if there's any constraints. I usually don't much care exactly how it's done, as long as it works, but sometimes it needs to fit into the bigger picture in a way that might not be obvious. My team have different strengths, and I'm more than happy for them to do what they do best. Most of my tickets range from two to six sentences in length - some are longer if it's complicated, but most things aren't.
My managers don't think that's enough for a ticket, and have been using LLMs to boost them up to several pages. That obviously requires making up tonnes of shit and overspecifying shit that doesn't need specifying. We have to waste time verifying that we've not now got requirements that make no sense, and now have pages of test notes of things that don't need testing, which means tickets now take days rather than hours to complete.
No-one can read these multi-page monstrosities, and are using LLMs to compact them down to a few sentences again.
I can't believe that we're boiling the oceans for this shit.
No, execs were.
I’m not sure there’s a single job that can be done by AI reliably today.