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The Dumbest Move in Tech Right Now: Laying Off Developers Because of AI (ppaolo.substack.com)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This assumes it is about output. 20 years of experience tell me it's not about output, but about profits and those can be increased without touching output at all. 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

*specifically short-term profits. Executives only care about the next quarter and their own incentives/bonuses. Sure the company is eventually hollowed out and left as a wreck, but by then, the C Suite has moved on to their next host org. Rinse and repeat.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Often they only want the illusion of output, just enough to keep the profits eternally rising.