#ai

C suite off most companies taking boards and staff for ride with cooked up nos on AI impact

Fake data generated to show productivity gain from AI to justify layoff of old staff and hiring of low cost new staff . Long way to go before AI is proven reliable

I’ve been hearing there’s ai now that can do our jobs… and that the entire SWE chapter but almost exclusively application engineers are targeted for ENGINE asap.. is there truth to this? Tbh I’ve been looking for jobs since last August with zero interviews so I’m really really worried. Any insight would mean a lot, thanks !

So maybe I'm dense, but I don't understand leaderships FOMO of AI , these guys are trying to throw AI at every problem, when most of T business models have nothing to do with AI directly, they complain about churn, and think AI is going to find some missing demographic, or want to use AI for lots of internal development, yet we're constrained by regulatory limits that don't play nice with GENERATIVE features of today's models.. Help me understand...

https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/office-software/microsoft-teams-will-start-snitching-to-your-boss-when-youre-not-in-the-office-and-this-update-is-coming-in-december

I don’t care as my team knows I’m not in office, but between this and AI taking 80% of jobs (or some similar dire forecast), it’s absurd to give anything to the company beyond the minimum.

Happy Oracle AI World 2025!
https://www.oracle.com/ai-world/

SAS has been pushing this angle for the past year.......a line repeated in several executive presentations.

TRUSTWORTHY AI: Ensuring AI systems are trained on diverse datasets to avoid bias and promote equitable outcomes.

Lyondellbasell has terminated roughly 85% of its IT (or Digital buzzword) staff (originally announced as 100 employees but real numbers are around 300+) that had 8+ years..with the company in an effort by an ex-Shell fool named Kayoor to outsource American jobs to TCS outsourcing Indian shared services, keeping only Senior leadership and dozens of 'directors' that are solely responsible for saving their own jobs ' and not the ones performing the actual work for the company.
Claiming they want to industrialize utilizing AI , these individuals have adopted an old model of cheaper, less experienced and less knowledgeable workers hoping they can recoup money lost due to a CEO thats agenda was to make a plastics ccompany not develop plastic.
Lyondellbasell is circling the toilet bowl.

Reading posts for far too long without contributing aside from a thumbs up or down.
All the bit$hing about layoffs and RTO can be summarized and understood by understanding the un mutable living fact. Which is, 100 MILLION of us will be displaced by AI by 2030.
Fact, not fiction. There will be civil unrest. There will be difficult times. This vast wasteland called T is the least of our worries, Look to your right and to your left. I promise you those employees will be unemployed.

With SAP and almost every other company flushing billions down the toilet chasing a phony dream, what happens after the crash?

https://www.commondreams.org/news/artificial-intelligence-bubble

MarketWatch reported on Friday that the MacroStrategy Partnership, an independent research firm, has published a new note claiming that the bubble generated by AI is now 17 times larger than the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s, and four times bigger than the global real-estate bubble that crashed the economy in 2008.

Perkins told Axios that he’s particularly wary because the big tech companies are claiming “they don’t care whether the investment has any return, because they’re in a race.”
“Surely that in itself is a red flag,” he added.

“I think that there will be a lot of capital that’s deployed that will turn out to not deliver returns, and when that happens, people won’t feel good,” he said.

This zero-innovation management team would be gone yesterday, and employees at all levels (management are also employees) who think spending 8 hours a day being in an office building translates to 8 hours a day of productivity would be culled in favor of those who understand 80% of your results come from 20% of your effort.

Effective employees avoid the other 80% of effort because it's almost always useless. AI could hold an earnings call and draft a better earnings email than any of the current management team. It would certainly sound more professional than WF's Chief uhm-ahh Officer.

This is because AI investments are not yielding significant results. Companies like Meta have laid off top-performing employees after spending heavily on AI initiatives.

https://www.crn.com/news/ai/2025/ibm-9-5-billion-ai-book-of-business-drives-q3-growth-across-company-s-software-hardware-and-consulting-segments

"booming demand for cloud services, as artificial intelligence adoption rises."

https://m.economictimes.com/tech/technology/ibms-slowing-cloud-growth-eclipses-upbeat-third-quarter-results/amp_articleshow/124751571.cms

I am seeing all sort of initiatives along this line, I am not sure if it is just managers trying to show how much they align with the latest buzzwords or it is a genuine and desperate search for ideas to make us competitive in this field.

It does sound and look like "when you only have a hammer everything looks like a nail"

ain't nobody buying AI podz, AI Canvas, AI defence, AI Webex

ai canvas is a year too late and full of nasty (soul crushing) security flaws and bugs
ai podz are crazy expensive for a rack server + gpu
ai defence is yet another promising acquisition crushed under the fatty folds of cisco bureaucracy

and who the heck uses webex?

Trying to play in AI and Quantum Computing with no credidibility.

What will be the impact at SAS with AI in the coming years? Are you worried?

Calacanis warned: "Before 2030 you’re going to see Amazon, which has massively invested in [AI], replace all factory workers and all drivers … It will be 100% robotic, which means all of those workers are going away. Every Amazon worker. UPS, gone. FedEx, gone.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/bernie-sanders-agrees-with-billionaire-elon-musk-i-fear-he-may-be-right/ar-AA1P07Qr?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=68faad410dea4c86a5b3449004875a5e&ei=16

If not you better get on it because you can bet they are busy right now training AI to replace you! It should go without saying that they will try to hide this from you by saying they are "swamped with work" after the last RIF, or that they "have decided not to work hard anymore", etc

Meanwhile, the more co-workers that you show management you can replace, the more valuable you look to Team Oracle

This is the second tech AMA where you are only allowed to discuss "AI". Why not let the meeting serve its original purpose? Let associates ask what they are wondering about. Sure, ask AI questions, but people should be encouraged to ask what they want. What a tone deaf joke given the state of morale.

Be prepared

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/meta-plans-to-cut-600-jobs-in-its-ai-superintelligence-labs-6717116

Another reorganization — new names, the same long-entrenched inept leadership.

No real changes. No products. Quality keeps sliding while the company waits for someone — anyone — to make sense of AI, since the so-called AI teams clearly can’t.

Directionless “AI strategy” built on vaporware, riddled with defects, and outsourced to contractors following Chinese-grade security practices — meaning none at all.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/ibm-q3-2025-earnings-report.html

Love how AK brags every qtr about the "huge and growing AI and hybrid cloud backlog". Yeah right! ISC forecasts by sales is TOTAL BS!!!!! Just put AI or cloud in the product title and bo-m the backlog goes to $1T. SMH!

• Meta will lay off roughly 600 employees within its artificial intelligence unit, a spokesperson confirmed to CNBC.
• The cuts come as Meta has poured billions of dollars into AI to keep pace with rivals like Google and OpenAI.
• Meta’s chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, announced the layoffs in a memo to staff.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/meta-layoffs-ai.html

Reposting for visibility. The original question was why address design structure in the wake of a 2 billion dollar loss on ev side of the business.

@ff I would say both. Studio for reasons mentions by a few people here. It's honestly an antiquated group within the company. Very old school way of thinking there. As the company evolves around them they are stuck in a bubble of arrogance. Way too top heavy on the salary structure, just look at the amount of level 7/8s there vs how many people actually do the work. Others areas at wtc might have one L8 covering hundreds of workers. Over there it feels the opposite.

As far as design when it pertains to production parts and process's I would say there is some bloat on that end as well. You start talking about DREs that "own" one or two widget parts on the car or maybe a couple models. They didn't design the part, there might not be changes to the parts, there might have been no issues since the part was designed but for some reason we need to have a whole group support it. That goes for almost every system and part put on the car. Leadership is scrambling trying to right the ship but they are cutting the wrong items out of our proven process's. Ask yourself why we still have multi thousand car floats that need repair at ALL of our plants... I'll answer for you... We didn't actually test anything like we used too because some out of touch boomer thinks AI and virtual reality will solve the companies problems. While we are at it why is so much money being dumped into battery development at this Wallace lab and the shuttering of mock up. The public has spoken, not many people want evs, especially without the tax credit. maybe Steve Jenkins can answer at the next Cole podium fireside lunch and learn brought to you by Starbucks

https://stocktwits.com/news-articles/markets/equity/ibm-stock-idynamic-name-to-own-in-ai-revolution-says-analyst/ch6CYdnR3Yd

And then I go on to say more, even though I said (period).

First company to sub 2nm node. TSMC won't be there for years potentially as their node launching in 2026 is 2nm.

Now on track with GPU's and have shown how easy it will be to catch up with their line of consumer GPU - which came out of nowhere

The best client CPUs ever made. Lunar Lake is very good.

Strong in server and very very strong in some workload

Excellent partnership with India. India are loyal to Intel. I know everyone, people who will choose Intel over lower cost

Excellent parternship with China vs others

Excellent partnership with US government, better than any other company in the world. If you love America, you will love also Intel

No thank you to the other companies here causing dissent.

Gotta love these headlines, can’t make this up

What will he do when there is no one left to fire?

Ah, silly me. That means it is acquisition time!

Looks like they want to replace a lot of claims positions and coding roles with this new AI system Optum Real?

VSP talks are on-going with unions in France. Some details leaked in the press.
They plan on reducing head count by 20% in France due to shift of focus on A.I.

I'm kind of thinking it happens soon. Oracle is laid off so many talented smart people, they've terrified the remaining people with talk about how AI is going to replace them or they're going to get laid off, and they're driving away any kind of decent talent from ever applying...

it turns out being a greedy psychopath a--hole id--t is really expensive

Quality appears to be suffering. Non-production level code is shipping.

Was QA and testing replaced with Copilot?

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/microsoft_bug_keyboard_mouse/

Bucket 1 — Already, approximately 35% of health insurance and technology worker’s jobs have been transferred from Americans to non-American workers (e.g., H-1B Visa, Offshored).

Bucket 2 — By end of 2026, AI (artificial intelligence) will replace 45% of the Human workforce, eliminating their life sustaining employment.

The big question, where does that leave you, if you do not belong to one of those two buckets?

Yes, this keeps getting repeated over and over but it is very important persons realize what is going on in our very own country and the repercussions it will have on unemployment and our way of life BEFORE it is too late.

To make a difference, consider writing your Congressman and tell them that you are for American (human) employment. And ask them, “are they?!”

The company appears to be cutting costs by encouraging resignations or creating performance-based grounds for termination, such as enforcing a four-day office attendance policy. Profitability challenges, particularly in the Optum business due to CMS V28 changes, are straining finances. Heavy investments in AI are unlikely to yield short-term returns, if any. Meanwhile, executive perks—luxury travel, corporate jets, security, double-digit raises, and millions in stock options—remain untouched. Instead, the company is pressuring its most vulnerable employees. This is a textbook case of mismanagement driving a company into the ground. Leadership is dominated by yes-men and yes-women, with dissenting voices pushed out. If you have alternatives, consider leaving this toxic environment. If not, make the best of your situation and be grateful to still have a job.

Well said, @2rc+1k6jmpfts.

Just got back from Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Some of our technology execs were there. New tracking software and authentication software will be rolling out soon. In a nutshell, every device we use for work will have tracking and timestamping abilities.
Don’t get me started with how they’ll be using AI in the company.

Every time I think we've hit rock bottom, they find a new way to stress us out. The constant changes, PIPS, the fake pep talks, the micromanaging, layoffs, AI... It’s draining everyone. Do they want to have a completely demotivated workforce that only does the bare minimum? Is that the goal here?

Has anyone else heard that Doug is going to Apple to assist with their in-house AI program? A few people mentioned this during a meeting late last week.