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Cloudflare to fire 1,100 staff whose jobs just aren’t AI enough (www.theregister.com)
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[–] 92 points 4 months ago (21 children)

Every company that fires people for AI is going to regret it so much in the long run...

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago

    it's also resulting in fresh grads that don't know anything. this is naturally by design. within the past couple years I've come across so many new devs that just don't know jack. can they answer tickets? sure. can they provide prompts to an agent? yes. beyond that? good luck. and their salaries reflect this.

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    Nah I'm sorry you're dead wrong. My last job we straight up got rid of 95% of our HR department and all of our interns and were replaced with ChatGPT Enterprise licenses. Then they laid off the graphic design department and left just the head of the department and 2 staff. Then I was laid off alongside over half of the IT department.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    both of my bros suffered job loss, or "sidelined indefnitely. one got layed off since 23, and the current one have been "on the bench" since last year.

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  • [+] -10 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    If your company did indeed lay off 95% of HR and replaced it with ChatGPT you need to find another job somewhere like now. They are about two lawsuits from not existing.

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    Had you read all the words in my comment, you'd see I'm no longer at that job.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    Yep I missed that part, sorry. Good for you. Well not the being layed off part. Hopefully you found more employment. But companies like this are toxic at best, or just downright stupid.

    I’ve had the misfortune of working for companies during the dotcom boom that had horrible business plans that I was lucky enough to leave before the bottom fell out.

    Edit: typo

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    No worries! I did find employment not too far after but it definitely doesn't pay anywhere near the same or provide nearly as good benefits but given the job market, I'm lucky to be employed.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Tons of people are getting fired because the owners think AI can replace them. Doesn't mean the AI can do the work properly, but they are getting fired anyway.

    I know a person that works at an AI startup and they convinced a company to replace their HR department with AI a while back. Funnily enough, that startup's "AI" is largely "Actually Indians." Their service is an agent that writes its own "tools" to solve problems/complete tasks, but the tools often don't work, so they have a large team of devs in India rewrite them or do the tasks.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago*

    sounds like a troll, but they started massively laying off since 2023, both my bros were affected severely, and then the company my older bro got bought off down the line. im in a tech hub in the west, and all they are peddling in the tech conference is all AI related, before it use to be a variety of software/tech, now its the same tech with more AI.

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