Arbeitgeber, die Arbeitnehmer unter Berufung auf KI entlassen haben, beginnen dies bereits zu bereuen

Well yeah, they thought they were getting employees who worked for nothing with no complaints and instead they got shitty software that doesn’t reason and costs more to operate than an employee. 

Companies were sold on the idea of general AI intelligence through smoke and mirrors chat bots. Now they’re putting these bots to the test and they’re failing, in nearly every use case. 

There are some niche roles that AI can do well, but until it becomes true AI it’s just machine learning and very limited in scope and ability. 

The AI bubble bursting is going to be worse than 2008

I hate these big general sweeping headlines.

Lets be honest – some are regretting it and it’ll bite them in the ass in the medium/long term. Some however are delighted to shrink the bloat they had from covid hiring.

There’s every scenario and story out there regarding AI layoffs, and these big LinkedIn type headlines designed to get engagement are pretty useless.

But in saying that – if this is the message and narrative that gets out there, then happy days

Just wait until It’s actually priced to the real cost. Going to be a lot of companies suddenly collapsing.

This is how companies work, especially IT companies, laying off staff or cutting staffing costs in any way looks great to shareholders and on the balance sheet, senior management get nice bonuses and promotions based on the onetime reductions. If there is any negatives and the cuts are rolled back or business suffers, those bonuses and promotions aren’t revoked if anything it’s turned as a positive „the company is doing so good they need to increase staff numbers, yay!“
If anyone actually suffers from this it’s the staff layed off or the remaining staff who have to take on the extra work of the lost staff, it’s not some executive.

They don’t regret it, now they can refresh teams (new hires, new ideas, new talent) at a lower cost.

This was literally the most predictable freakin thing in the world. Every mid- and c-level who advocated for this should be fired – if not for stupidity then for terminal lack of foresight

Just like the gold rush, the only people making money are the ones selling shovels. Everyone else is a sucker.

Any company that actually were laying off people due to AI as a real justification were morons.

Not because AI does not have use cases and business benefits – it does in some cases, and hey, it might even make certain roles irrelevant. But because its unproven tech where all they had was marketing hype.

If you make drastic business decisions based on hype, you are an idiot.

I am keeping a list of the companies that laid people off for AI, so that I know who to never work for

Feelgood propaganda. Don’t fall for it.

I don’t understand how these companies don’t see the writing on the wall. By offloading your work to AI, you’re literally making yourself subservient to those businesses. AI companies are trying to lock businesses into a subscription model that they can’t get out of.

And now they’re going to hire people back for a fraction of the pay and benefits they had before

And every single one of them need to go out of business and the C-Suite execs brought up on some kind of charges. I don’t know what kind, something might stick but they destroyed lives over a piece of technology that everyone *knew* wasn’t ready for such use. They only saw dollar signs.

My previous job had been desperate to decrease spending on employees. I’d survived 7 rounds of layoffs. They said it was completely random but I watched people who had been with the company 20+ years immune to this. Senior level architects and developers: immune. Upper management: immune.

And suddenly I got the meeting invite in my calendar. I knew.

I had *literally* just finished an entire sprint’s worth of work (two weeks) in 6 clock hours. One business day. Because I’m that good.

They had just ranted about not being able to hit a critical deadline for a new feature that they had screwed over several times and wanted it done in two months. On firing me, they left *exactly* one pure developer on the team. There was a second one but he focused on data, database, and legacy code (VB6).

They’re conflating increased productivity and sudden ability to complete complex tasks quicker with competence in AI.

They don’t understand that AI isn’t AI but a really good chatbot and is only as good as what you bring to the table, how you prompt, and your own discernment.

And they fired everyone with experience capable of making AI work *with* the company hoping to make AI their workforce.

Every single investor needs to move to have them removed. All of them. Every single company exec who did this needs to be behind bars. Again, I don’t know what charge would stick but it is fitting that they’re convicted of something even though being an egregious heinous example of what not to be when you grow up isn’t illegal.

I fucking *loved* my job. I was good at it. The work saved lives in a quantifiable way. I stopped job hoping and took hits on my income because I loved what I did.

Fuck these people.

Gosh, you mean that the thing we all told you was being sold at a loss to trap you into changing everything you do to be reliant on it, is actually now starting to become more expensive?

That the trillion-dollar AI company that has NO PROFITABLE TIER of service would, one day, want its money back?

And you ignored that and sacked long-term staff because you just didn’t want to believe it?

Whoops.

Maybe there should be one last candidate for being replaced with AI before you abandon that policy.

You.

Fortunately, they’ve rehired the same employees they laid off AND paid them back pay as an apology, right?

No?

Well, at least the people who made those decisions got fired for them, yeah?

Why are you laughing?