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Rumor: Possible Linkedin Layoffs Tomorrow 5/13 (or 5/14) (Blind)
- fjwoxhaba (LinkedIn): Rumors are saying directors were notified earlier today so quite likely
- tlLd05 (LinkedIn): Yep confirmed 50% layoff
- ouhfgfgyn (LinkedIn): 5/13 confirmed by multiple sources
Amazon is laying off in “secret” RIGHT NOW and it’s strategic. (Blind)
- rasesh (Amazon): BS … no silent layoffs are happening … I see lot of silent hiring infact
- –author (Google): Google has been doing this for years.
- nkrtf (Amazon): I can confirm layoffs are happening
AI isn’t paying off in the way companies think. Layoffs driven by automation are failing to generate returns, study finds (r/technology)
- Dr-Moth: Workers with salaries you control, have been replaced by AI agents with costs you can’t control. The short term gains are replaced by long term dependency.
- KyuubiW1ndscar: the people who needed to lose their job, didn’t.
- antrage: Heres a radical idea, maybe use the AI to make your workforce put less time on menial tasks so they put more energy on tasks that are creative and will make your company more profitable in terms of innovation.
Amazon employees are inflating AI usage to top leaderboards and impress managers (r/technology)
- Square-Bluejay3476: This is what happens when companies start measuring “AI usage” instead of measuring whether the work actually improved. People will optimize for the metric they’re judged on, even if the metric itself is meaningless.
- Frequent-Test-3012: Your work performance is judged
nownot on how good your work is, but instead on how much you can use the slop machine. - pr1aa: When a measure becomes a goal, it’s no longer a good measure
4 engineers now doing the job of 12 at my friend’s company because AI agents handle the rest (r/cscareerquestions)
- DeusSapien: When Bill Gates said AI would introduce 2 day workweek, this is what he meant. 8 engineers are not going work 2-day work week, instead there will be 4 engineers working 5-day work weeks while trying to output the work of 8 engineers
- Ill-Independence6422: cool so we’re all just speedrunning ourselves out of a job
- BiIlEGoat: How has no one mentioned this post is written by ai
Kickstarter bans all NSFW content from the website (r/technology)
- LittlestWeapon: I’m assuming at the pressure of the credit card processors?
- physical0: Anyone wanna kickstart my new payment processor?
- Biggu5Dicku5: They had NSFW content?