#ai

Dell only cares about storage followed by AI servers, nothing else matters. The traditional server business has almost been destroyed and I am guessing that it will soon lose its number one standing in the industry. I am certain that Dell does not care and the people associated to these products will eventually be let go. SAD!!!

DT is funneling free cash flow to build their AI center with Nvidia. Watch for bigger changes by Q3, cuz there's not much more cuts to be made at this point.

Well guys, should we consider unionizing now or wait until they either outsource all of our jobs to India or replace us with AI

"Join us for a live session to learn about professional production-grade software development via vibe coding."

Yes OTEX "leadership" really are that stupid.

They think Vibe coding with cheap replacements in India that do not understand the products will work.

What could possibly go wrong?

People that were laid off were lucky. They are no longer subjected to nonsense like this.

Longtime KTLA reporter Ellina Abovian was fired last month. She stated local TV news must adapt its storytelling. The industry faces consolidation and cost cutting. Broadcasters like Nexstar are restructuring operations. They invest in AI due to declining streaming revenue.

https://letsdatascience.com/news/local-tv-industry-faces-consolidation-and-layoffs-d8bccc80

Forced Ai training. And soon to be forced to use Ai. While my director and mangers openly joke and laugh about how Ai is so great and will eventually take will our jobs. Great morale boost while they actively talk about wanting to boost morale.

I have never been more energized and excited to be a Vteamer than this week with the rollout of AI Unlocked - at scale! Here’s what I know to be true. Our leaders are building a future proof workforce and we can trust them to deliver as they always do! I deeply believe the bullet points and the post it notes. Our credo and culture OS are world class art of the possible.

There is no need to beat around the bush.

Everyone know FISERV CIO has initiative to move all jobs to INDIA.

The company is on a DOWNWARD SPIRAL for a LONG TIME.

It does not INNOVATE.

That is why we want AI, because there are already MINIMAL STANDARDS.

So if you don't like it? Find a NEW JOB.

Otherwise, It's NOT WORTH IT.

Or else stay at Fiserv and have your job OUTSOURCED.

If not deal then deal with LOW QUALITY,

And MORE AI,

And more OUTSOURCING,

And more being TREATED LIKE A CHILD.

Its part of the DOWNWARD SPIRAL.

Stephen Miller is ON THE SIDE OF PROFIT, NOT YOURS.

Understand?

I’m so frustrated. I feel like no one is using critical thinking anymore. Everyone’s in a race to automate their work and use co pilot to do their jobs but they aren’t taking the time to validate if any of it makes sense. I’ve found so many mistakes due to automation. No one is challenging or validating data anymore. If it looks fine it must be right. No….. This creates unnecessary fire drills which leads to the blame game.

Co pilot and automation should never replace critical thinking and quality control.

Higher pay?
Remote?
not AI first?
not using enough AI(Copilot)

Watch for more RAs in Consulting very soon. . .

https://www.businessinsider.com/consulting-management-ai-agents-future-ibm-2026-3

By: Lakshmi Varanasi
Mar 23, 2026, 4:01 AM CT

• IBM's consulting arm monitors the work of AI agents using a real-time dashboard.
• IBM says AI agents have sped up security investigations, cutting task time from 45 to a few minutes.
• IBM Consulting's revenue reached $21 billion in 2025, driven by demand for AI solutions.

At IBM's consulting arm, the future isn't a slide deck or a strategy memo — it's a live dashboard where humans monitor the work of AI agents in real time.

Earlier this month, Mohamad Ali, senior vice president of IBM Consulting, walked Business Insider through the dashboard that the company both uses internally and recently released to clients.

"Every hour I can see what's going on with all the humans associated with digital workers," and vice versa, he said. "That is the new consulting model going forward."

The dashboard is known internally as "Consulting Advantage." The company unveiled it in 2024 to help its own consultants build and manage teams of AI agents. This January, it unveiled "Enterprise Advantage," a similar version of the platform for clients that allows them to build and manage AI agents at scale.

In recent years, the firm has made itself the testing ground for building and deploying digital workers as it prepares clients for a future defined by AI. Ali said the firm has digital staff working side by side with humans on more than 150 client engagements.

Take the example of a typical security operations center, he said. When an alert comes in, a human investigator would normally spend about 45 minutes combing through logs to figure out what went wrong and what to do next. At IBM, he said, that process is increasingly handled by AI.

Digital workers first "generate an investigation plan." Then they execute it in real time. Multiple agents tackle different parts of the problem simultaneously, passing tasks back and forth, he said. Then they run a risk analysis and produce a report. The process now takes just a couple of minutes. The findings are then passed back to a human — with key actions highlighted — and the human verifies it.

In January alone, IBM used this approach to complete 52,000 investigations, Ali said.

IBM has evolved dramatically from its early days as a maker of mainframe computers into a key player in the AI bo-m. The company said its generative AI department was valued at $12.5 billion during its fourth-quarter earnings call.

Its consulting department, especially, has seen an uptick due to demand for generative AI and services that help clients implement it. Consulting revenue for 2025 came in at over $21 billion, up from about $20.7 billion in 2024.

IBM Consulting has been around for decades. The company acquired PwC's consulting arm in 2002. PwC would later rebuild its consulting business after a five-year noncompete clause expired.

IBM Consulting now employs about 150,000 employees and says its work overlaps with the Big Four and more technology-focused firms like Accenture.

"We don't do, like, what markets you should be in," Ali said. "We do strategy around 'how do you take your corporate strategy and implement it?'"

And right now, he said, there's a big question in corporate strategy: How do you prepare for a world where humans work alongside AI agents?

Welcome BNYs new Agentic Platform! Here you get to help create your very own AI employee that will eventually take your job!

This place is a joke.

https://www.businessinsider.com/bny-managers-teams-humans-agentic-ai-digital-employees-robin-vince-2026-3

He’s so obsessed, and wasting millions

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi offered a stark view on AI's impact. He stated many executives privately admit AI will displace millions of jobs. Khosrowshahi estimates AI could replace 70-80% of human work. He acknowledged autonomous vehicles will eventually fulfill most Uber trips. This candid assessment contrasts with public statements from other tech leaders.

https://moneywise.com/news/top-stories/dara-khosrowshahi-uber-ceo-says-execs-are-lying-about-ai

….well here is my new AI skills showcasing a tale around the Humana experience in the last 8 months.

Once upon a time, in a kingdom not marked on any map, there stood a towering castle called Evergain. From the outside, its golden spires gleamed with promise, and travelers spoke in hushed admiration of the opportunities said to lie within its walls. But those who worked inside knew a different story.

The ruler of Evergain was a calculating figure known only as the Steward. Cloaked in polished words and grand proclamations, the Steward often spoke of loyalty, fairness, and shared success. Each year, the Steward would gather the castle’s workers—scribes, builders, planners, and keepers—and speak of how deeply their contributions were valued.

One winter, as frost clung to the castle windows, the Steward announced a grand offering: an Early Departure Pact. Those who accepted it would be rewarded with generous coin and the chance to leave their duties behind with dignity. The hall buzzed with cautious excitement. Many who had long served the castle saw this as a rare and welcome gift.

But there was a catch.

The Steward declared that certain roles—those deemed “critical to the kingdom’s future”—were forbidden from accepting the pact. These workers, who often carried the heaviest burdens, were told they were too important to leave. While others were given a choice, they were bound more tightly than ever.

Still, many accepted the offer and departed with relief. Yet not long after the farewell feasts had ended, something strange began to happen. New faces appeared in the castle—fresh recruits filling the very roles that had just been vacated. Whispers spread through the corridors: If the roles could be filled so quickly, were they ever truly meant to disappear?

Meanwhile, those labeled “critical” found their situation growing heavier. Despite their increased workload and unwavering service, no additional coin was granted to them when the time for raises came. The Steward praised their importance in speeches, yet their purses remained unchanged.

Then came the Festival of Rewards, when bonuses were distributed based on the kingdom’s success. In years past, this had been a time of celebration. But now, the coins handed out were fewer than expected. The Steward explained that the kingdom’s fortunes were tied together—that the performance of all determined the reward of each. And so, even those who had labored tirelessly received less than they had earned.

The workers began to see the pattern clearly.

Those who could leave were encouraged to go—but then replaced.
Those who could not leave were praised—but not rewarded.
And all were told the system was fair—while feeling, deep down, that it was not.

Among them was a quiet group who began to speak—not loudly, but persistently. They did not shout or rebel. Instead, they shared truths, compared stories, and held onto a simple idea: that words alone were not enough, and that fairness must be shown through action.

Over time, their voices grew stronger—not through force, but through clarity.

And though the Steward still ruled from the high tower, something had shifted in Evergain. The illusion had cracked. The workers no longer mistook polished promises for justice, nor praise for fairness.

And as in all good fairy tales, that was the beginning of change.

Upload the annual budget statement to Claude and ask it to analyze the document for cost‑reduction opportunities. Most expenses come from WIM, and there appears to be a potential savings of $800M by lowering those costs.

Scrutinize, double scrutinize and triple scrutinize each and every engineer, especially the dead wood at Grade 10 and above. Most of them are needless overheads and only serve to drag the company down.

This is the ERA of AI assisted development. Leverage AI and eliminate DEAD WOOD.

From my LinkedIn feed:

I used Claude Code to create a new HDL and vibe coded a compiler in a couple of weeks of my spare time. (Yeah very little left after a busy day at work ;-) ) Now I am very certain say 80% likelyhood we won’t need half of design or verification engineers in max two years from now. I think we’re going back to a full stack frontend engineer model again. For a medium complexity accelerator chip, you need 1 architect, <10 AI native frontend engineers (doing design, verification, synthesis, timing,) 2 verification/emulation specialists for integration testing. I don’t know enough physical design to predict there.

my opinion, complete waste of time. Department trying to justify their wasted "AI" investment.

Is Powerflex only place like this or its across whole ISG or Dell?

In recent weeks its like AI and nothing else matters.. each meeting each demo each talk is always AI.. half of people dont even know what to do.. so they ask AI, then send AI responses to other in slack/jira. slop times.

I love when folks on demo are more focused to say how windsurf or other LLM tool help them or did all VS why and what they actually did.

Its like AI psychosis.

Verizon has a long history of successful execution on transformative and bold initiatives at scale. From go90, aol, yahoo, plus play, hum, blue jeans, finance transformation, Verizon global services, return to office, project 626 for customer service, and more - we have a record we can be proud of. Our leaders are experts in organizing teams in ways that result in role clarity, expertise, and results. This winning culture will do the same for our transformative AI initiatives. I have zero doubt how this will play out. Let’s go team!

Snowflake confirmed "targeted" staff cuts. These adjustments align teams with the company's long-term strategy. The cuts specifically affected its technical writing and documentation team. Snowflake aims for operational efficiency and more AI products. Other tech companies also made layoffs due to AI focus.

https://www.businessinsider.com/snowflake-layoffs-strategy-ai-growth-2026-3

Did anyone heard anything? This quarter seems like they are not going to have any profits or acquire any major customers. Bonuses will be sh-t and management will blame AI while promoting AI.

Pega is AI to track your work and mouse movements. It's not about efficiency or work processes. Sitting in a meeting, actually paying attention and not multitasking. Not moving your mouse will lower your Pega. No joke, you don't meet whatever number they want and you will be out .

You know, once we're all replaced by AI and unemployed?

L1 and L2 hiring freeze while ATS and other organizations assess the impact of AI and determine why we have 40,000 workers more than Verizon. In my opinion, the big one is coming this summer.

Isn’t it strange that AI is being pushed down our throats and the more we use it the better it’s able to get? Just seems like we are contributing to our own downfall here as a human race. I feel like it’s a natural instinct to opt out of something like this.

Honestly, how many new bugs do you think Cisco will ship because of LLMs? Leadership seems to think it’s magic and makes everything faster. 😆

What is Forbes seeing that we aren’t…

https://simplywall.st/stocks/us/software/nyse-dxc/dxc-technology/news/a-look-at-dxc-technology-dxc-valuation-after-new-ai-offering

Microsoft is more bloated than other FAANGs, and is packed with legacy enterprise .NET devs - a skillset that is irrelevent in the AI era

Accenture stock rallies today...

Accenture reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings and revenue, which helped its stock rebound despite a steep decline over the past year driven by fears that AI could disrupt its consulting business. The company highlighted strong AI-driven demand and solid margins, and slightly raised its revenue outlook, but bookings growth remained weak and demand trends appear stable rather than improving. While some analysts see value in the stock’s low valuation and long-term exposure to AI and cloud growth, others remain cautious, noting that slowing revenue momentum and ongoing uncertainty around AI’s impact mean investor concerns are unlikely to fade quickly.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/accenture-earnings-stock-price-8b5d8c09

A massive reorg is being planned to reduce business units , and consolidate around AI document management systems. Think Content Server + Aviator.

HSBC Holdings Plc is reportedly considering significant job cuts. Up to 20,000 roles could be eliminated over several years. This reduction is part of an AI-led overhaul strategy. Non-client facing roles in global service are expected to be most affected. No final decision has been made yet regarding these plans.

https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/hsbc-layoffs-soon-wall-street-giant-may-slash-20-000-roles-amid-ai-led-overhaul-says-report-11773883152084.html

Is there any truth to this? This is roughly 10% of the workforce. Heard it was AI related (same as other companies are saying - fire thousands of people to invest in AI).
There is now even a freeze for hiring contractors.
Makes me sick working here.

AI isn't working as well as Mike would like. I hear 2026/early 2027 layoffs are delayed by 6-12 months. Mike is not happy. 115m dollars is being deployed to consultants to "make it work".

• Constant* project churning. Requirements either written by AI without considering what's actually possible, or just blatantly copy the competition as they do it better. Just copy, copy, copy, without understanding what works and what doesn't, and why it works or not. Demanding constant revisions over and over on UX work, in a rush.

Utter incompetence. I've worked on projects for months that go so long only because management is entirely incapable of making good decisions. Iterate, iterate, iterate, iterate.

The place has become a complete mess, with outrageous demands as they assume everyone is now a superhuman with these AI shortcuts (they've done nothing but make things worse for everyone but devs.) And dev wants nothing to do with UX, as they just see it as a bottleneck as they "vibe code" unplanned, unconsidered garbage.

Anyone with original ideas will have them stolen as management desperately tries to justify their employment, despite outright incompetence.

What a complete waste. It was a great place to work while it lasted, but now it's just absurd demands with absurd timeframes with absurd people.

And good luck if your manager decides (to alleviate his own guilt for throwing out a LONG-time performer) that he has to be entirely unreasonable and make absurd demands of you suddenly . Su-ks when the manager was already entirely incompetent at design - now he's going to demand your work gets far worse as he forces terrible decisions that don't make any sense. Just making a paper trail of "insubordination" for not heeding "just make the logo bigger"-type of feedback an amateur wouldn't make.

What a joke. Stay far away. They are going to be desperate for good employees soon. I've seen many companies make the same terrible mistakes, and it just gets worse and worse.

Interesting post on X, it's clearly not from a VP in oracle, but the numbers and sentiment in it is spot on. https://x.com/gothburz/status/2032125473199714767

What does your crystal ball see? Mine

• 2027 RIF
• 2028 Richmond goes to a terminal
• 2029 It's time to talk about increasing shareholder value - Split Upstream from Downstream etal. Separate companies; oh wait that's being discussed in 2026. Hi BR and others.
• 2030 Why do we need people? AI can take over 50% of remaining jobs. Just needs a few oversight chums.

It just feels accountant driven to just maintain/survive - entrepreneurial spirit no longer exists. Growth is gone.

What do you all think?

Dell has almost played this to a perfect T and has given other tech companies a 100 percent effective road map to get rid of human capital. Does it really matter nope, what matters is Dell a 15 billion dollar company at best and it will look and act like a 15 billion dollar company soon

This AI thing is unsustainable, however you slice it. But hey, at least the internet's having fun with Avocado sc--wup.