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Don't you understand business? Using AI attracts investors. Laying off people also attracts investment ever since Jack Welch. So this is win-win for attracting investment.

Making products and selling them? That's a 20th century mindset. The amount of money you can make off the middle class is peanuts compared to what you can get from billionaire investors. Lay off all the employees, max out the tokens, make billions so you can afford a bunker to live in when the whole thing collapses. That how we do business in the 21st century!

Have you met middle management? I'd take an LLM running on a Core 2 Duo over the decision making skills of someone who thinks an A3 sheet of paper can solve every problem.

LLMs can not replace actual productive humans but I will not shed a single tear if they wipe out the e-mail spamming, bean counting, micro-managing twits, who desperately want "AI" to improve their "workforce."

Why are tech companies laying off the humans?

Because they think they can reduce costs / increase profits by doing it.

Because it never mattered if the technology worked or not, it was about dehumanizing workers.

Because if you say you're doing layoffs because you're doing poorly or want to bribe shareholders it's bad, but if you say you're being innovative you're worthy of investment.

It's cover. They're not laying off because of AI. They're laying off to make line go up.

You're reducing payroll, which is the biggest expense for most companies. That will make line go up for a while, until the lowered productivity catches up with you. With a little bit of luck, someone else will get blamed for that.

Moronic middle management KPIs

Buying their own bullshit