Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Mar 14

Meta reportedly plans sweeping layoffs as AI costs increase
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/13/meta-layoffs-ai

> Sources tell Reuters layoffs could affect 20% or more of company as plans reflect broader tensions within big tech

Of course Meta is pretending this is because "effectiveness gains in AI".

But if an industry is laying off tens of thousands of people, maybe it's not magic, but an industry in deep crisis. Using "AI" as a convenient excuse to not have stockholders worried.

Meta reportedly plans sweeping layoffs as AI costs increase

Sources tell Reuters layoffs could affect 20% or more of company as plans reflect broader tensions within big tech

The Guardian
Show threadMichał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Mar 14

Of course eventually, chickens will come home to roost. Amazon has been laying off tens of thousands of engineers over the last few years, sometimes claiming to be replacing them with "AI".

The result is brain drain, and thus outages big and small:
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/

Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout

column: When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works

The Register
tmw 🌈6d ago
Show threadMichał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

Called it:
https://archive.md/20260313093508/https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-03-13/the-ai-washing-of-job-cuts-is-corrosive-and-confusing

> A Resume.org survey of 1,000 hiring managers found that 59% say they emphasize AI’s role in layoffs because it “is viewed more favorably by stakeholders than saying layoffs or hiring freezes are driven by financial constraints.”

Mar 15 at 4:25pmWeb
Show threadmadame poolhairMar 15
@rysiek yep invent the computers so that you can blame the computers, and not you're own greed... Stakeholders are trash 🗑️
Show threadFunGuy2PlayWithMar 15
@rysiek
AND THEN the AI companies regurgitate this lie ad nauseum to sell another lie that AI investment works.