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This is exactly what happened to our new neighbors who are both software engineers. They were laid off in the name of AI. They found better paying jobs near us working as software engineers for Amazon. The company that they were working for offered to rehire them for more money, but not as much as they are currently being paid by Amazon.
1 posted on 02/11/2026 11:46:08 AM PST by fireman15
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Yeah but they won’t be hiring the same deadbeat Gen-Z-ers.


2 posted on 02/11/2026 11:47:57 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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There are stupid people in high places. It became obvious to me years ago that corporations chose management personnel based solely upon football talk or days at the golf course.


3 posted on 02/11/2026 11:48:37 AM PST by GingisK
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This is a silly story. If any company claimed to be conducting “AI layoffs”, they were using AI as a smokescreen to lay off employees for other reasons. AI is not remotely near the level of sophistication that would allow companies to replace humans with AI on a mass scale. Most business news stories suggest that companies are getting rid of deadweight and Woke disaster hires and calling it AI layoffs. Especially in the entertainment industry.


4 posted on 02/11/2026 11:49:55 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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AI the New DEI ,LOL


5 posted on 02/11/2026 11:50:59 AM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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AI has a almost unlimited potential but it is going to take a a lot more time to implement that many of it's strongest boosters claim.

It's going to take decades and massive amounts of capitol investment to fully implement AI into mission critical, fault intolerant systems.

6 posted on 02/11/2026 11:52:20 AM PST by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead)
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AI definitely can improve productivity in some type of work, but typically not nearly as much as has been forecast. Anyone, including myself who have been using AI to help with commands, scripts, and coding, especially for tasks repetitive tasks such as setting up a server to host multiple websites... can tell you that often it would have been better to just do it all the “manual way”. The problem is that AI typically makes so many mistakes that it often takes longer to figure out what is going wrong than it would have taken to just set up everything by hand.


8 posted on 02/11/2026 11:53:37 AM PST by fireman15
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This is nothing new to programmers. AI is not the first new tech to disrupt the job market. In the end many programmers will learn how to work AI (beyond more than just asking ChatGPT to help write code). Most companies will demand more use of Information, much like relational databases led to more expectations from managers on reporting. Thus programmers will be inas much or more demand as before AI. Programmers who refuse to learn AI may be out of work. But most programmers who’ve been in the industry for decades have learned to adapt to new tech anyway. It’s what we signed up for when we chose the career.


10 posted on 02/11/2026 11:55:17 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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At this point AI can do particular narrow, high-volume, and repetitive tasks but not replace entire complex jobs on a mass scale.


11 posted on 02/11/2026 11:56:23 AM PST by erlayman (E )
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There’s no such thing as AI as it’s being promoted. Being “AI Systems ready” is the new “Being Y2K ready”.


13 posted on 02/11/2026 11:58:26 AM PST by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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They shed the Covid hires for the PPP money. They can hire back at lower wages. business cycle, again.


14 posted on 02/11/2026 11:58:47 AM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Polls are designed to sell more ads & polls only. If it's not a horse race the money dries up.)
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Microsoft went all-in on AI. Their stock has tanked. Still waiting for NVidia to crater although it is about $20 below its 12 month high which is better than MSFT’s $150 a share drop.


16 posted on 02/11/2026 12:02:21 PM PST by PAR35
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Hiring back…

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… in India.

18 posted on 02/11/2026 12:06:30 PM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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The “real” job cuts are still a few years out.

I DO know that my wife’s healthcare company installed a new medical records and billing system. They are laying off 10% of their billing staff because it has proven to be more accurate, better interfacing with insurance companies, and bills arrive on time.

My family has had a myriad of pretty significant medical issues over the past five years. I used to tell my wife’s boss that I had never received an accurate bill from their company. Ever. The time spent straightening the bills out would qualify as a part time job.

We are entering another round of serious medical treatment. During the preliminary stages we were on the new system. The bills have been perfect. I am not spending hours with their staff to correct stuff. Evidently, that is true across thousands of patients.

I have been around billing and telephone systems since I was 19 years old. The increased efficiency over the past few years has been stunning. And it’s only going to increase.

No…the real cuts haven’t even really started yet. Wait until Elon’s robots show up.


20 posted on 02/11/2026 12:21:09 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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I have met no one who liked working at amazon.

many of quit and came back, or went elsewhere.

but then again I only know AWS people


21 posted on 02/11/2026 12:22:15 PM PST by algore
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Hopefully they hire back Americans and not Indians


33 posted on 02/11/2026 12:40:44 PM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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Who ever invested speil check can go to he’ll...


34 posted on 02/11/2026 12:41:41 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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I called our trash service the other day during the snow, snow stops life in most of Oklahoma. All I asked is when we could expect pick-up. AI had to run for human help. Same thing happened the other day when i called about a freight delivery. I simply asked what size or kind of truck would be making the delivery.


43 posted on 02/11/2026 1:48:14 PM PST by Sequoyah101
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A few days ago I asked both perplexity.ai and grok.com to do the simplest of sorts, a table of the 60 Super Bowls in descending order of the winning team’s point total with the total score included.

Both sites botched the order. Grok recovered after the errors were pointed out, Perplexity said it couldn’t get the information needed to complete the task (!).


50 posted on 02/11/2026 2:10:15 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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And a report from Harvard Business Review shows that companies are actually encouraging workers to use AI as a productivity tool so they can do their jobs more efficiently; no terminations take place.

What DOES happen is workers are then working more, some even working more hours or more intensely than before.

This is what happened to friends of mine. They were told point-blank they would not be terminated, that AI was a tool for them to use. And use they did, to the point of exhaustion as their behavior changed.

https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it

“Summary. One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consistently intensify it: In the study, employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day, often without being asked to do so. That may sound like a win, but it’s not quite so simple. These changes can be unsustainable, leading to workload creep, cognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making. “


54 posted on 02/11/2026 2:39:05 PM PST by Retrofitted
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I know a company that told investors they would have AI doing what it takes hundreds or more, to do, in the same industry.

They recently laid off a bunch of people and it was from cash flow issues.

They are seeking another investor to cover them.


67 posted on 02/11/2026 6:14:16 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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