@[email protected] It's both - companies are using the AI as masking to make it look like the economy is not slowing down bigtime. Has been this way since 2023. So you're mostly right but there is some masking nuance in the corporate layoffs.

Also you may have noticed that the jobs are moved overseas and then the workers aren't paid and then the offices are closed.

Makes the investors happy I guess as they don't notice the company's become a shell company w/ no employees.

This is what's happened to the company I last worked for. It's been fascinating to watch the burn. All mebbe organized by an ex-Obama official / friend of Adam Curry.

The most "real" US biz expansion opportunity right now seems to be internal US reshipment of chinese container goods to avoid tariffs!
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