Larry's yacht (ship) costs a lot to run...
this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2026
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Hopefully he can dock in the UAE and use AI to repair the crater that was a data center.
AI is the favorite excuse to lay people off. Don't like someone? AI replaced them. Someone asked for a raise? AI replaced them. Someone got pregnant? Surprisingly, AI also replaced them.
No one knows more about pregnancy than AI. It's the personal lived experience that really gives them a leg up.
I was seeing a whole bunch of Oracle people I know suddenly "open to work" on LinkedIn, posting about how they were all "ready for my next opportunity" or "excited to discover my next project" and immediately correctly guessed what had happened.
I despise LinkedIn for encouraging such shitty verbal veneer to gloss over a rotten corporate foundation.
I really fucking wish we could stop using this corporate bullshit. I haven't been "excited" about a new position since roughly 2003. Layoffs do not engender excitement unless we get really pedantic about the multiple definitions of the word.
That's just what we need. More senior tech workers out of work in Austin.
Hey, we have a ton of those here in Washington too! Maybe if someone finds a way for AI to actually be a productivity booster, they can hire all the tech workers and turn them into money printers with the insane output they're supposed to produce with it.
Honestly, my main concern is the pipeline of junior devs who were actually mentored will dry up, and these quarterly results are all they care about. When no one knows anything in a decade, and the business is dying, AI is not going to swoop in to fix it.
Or Oracle will start stealth hiring in other countries like Poland and India to use that staff as their junior devs in a more sink or swim environment.
“It’s here right now and definitely working and producing productivity and revenue, but also we need to cut costs so we can keep spending money on it. Hmmm? Why not use the revenue it’s generating to pay for it, well, you see, we’re just scailing so fast it’s not enough. Oh, why not fund it with credit? The banks won’t let us put up the nvidia chips as collateral to buy more nvidia chips anymore.”