Most of the time the companies say the layoffs are because AI is doing people jobs, but the reality is that making things that use AI is just a lot more expensive. And enabling employees to use AI more than the free tier is really expensive too. So, they need to cut cost elsewhere to balance it out.

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    Tens of thousands of employees and not one of them knows how to make a good error message

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      I was once told by Oracle engineers that it would take 18-24 months to add a drop down with auto complete to their ticketing system.

      They don’t have good engineers because Oracle is a law firm pretending to be a tech company.

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        They don’t have good engineers because Oracle is a law firm pretending to be a tech company.

        We call this the IBM business plan.