Ron JeffriesMar 14

If your company actually became vastly more productive, because of "AI" or whatever, you wouldn't lay off people: you would take on new efforts, make higher profits, have more things going on.

Layoffs are always - always - a sign of bad decisions, misallocation of priorities. Gross mismanagement. Always.

Show threadNoisecolor6d ago

@RonJeffries
Where I work we made gains with ai. Also hired a few people, juniors and seniors.

Layoffs can also be a sign of a downturn.

Show threadHallucinationsofasiliconslab6d ago
@Noisecolor @RonJeffries CEOs are being paid, quite handsomely, to forsee downturns and adjust without massive layoffs. If the AI is making the talent pool that much more productive, why would you get rid of them? So you can hire again when you expand because you're so successful, locking in a sunk cost of training new people? The original assessment of their incompetence is accurate. The only group that AI should be replacing is the executive group.
Show threadNoisecolor6d ago

@Karnbot13
Maybe they are doing their job and predicting a downturn?

Ai is not causing the layoffs. It's just a handy excuse.
@RonJeffries

Show threadHallucinationsofasiliconslab
@Noisecolor @RonJeffries It looks like we agree that the CEOs aren't doing their jobs. I agree that AI is being used as an excuse to downsize because they overestimated the needed staffing levels for their actual share of the market.
Mar 15 at 3:51pmTusky
Show threadNoisecolor6d ago
@Karnbot13
Yeah, it's messed up.
@RonJeffries