Thread regarding SAS Institute layoffs

“AI” (large language models) are net negative productivity, and are just being used as cover for yet another huge offshoring push across the tech industry.

Agility Robots in logistics will be mass produced by 2025 - they will replace humans in factories and warehouses, etc... stacking and moving boxes and totes.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CblmmbFqlEw

Yikes, when robot goes rogue it's scary and dangerous!

Humanoid Robot PANICS Mid-Test – Nearly TAKES OUT Engineers in SHOCKING Incident!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDdcwo_UlRE

What if these trucks cause accidents?

All parties involved will deny culpability.

More jobs loss to AI. What if these trucks cause accidents? Scary!

Driverless Trucks In TX.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQrQrOPmszE

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/google-chief-scientist-predicts-ai-could-perform-at-the-level-of-a-junior-coder-in-a-year/ar-AA1F2s8z?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=6529c402985b472e9e5711f21be03228&ei=23#image=1

We are in the midst of a sea change. Between outsourcing and AI, the software engineering profession no longer has the bright prospects it had historically.

But not everything will be outsourced, and AI can’t do everything. The best software engineers will survive. Also, those with marketable domain specialties, such as computer security, defense work — or SAS V9.


Every software developer at SAS must acquire marketable skills, or make up their minds to finish their careers there. If you need to look for a job, prepare for a long search.

AI is already replacing software engineers.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/programmers-bore-the-brunt-of-microsoft-s-layoffs-in-its-home-state-as-ai-writes-up-to-30-of-its-code/ar-AA1ERjdN?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=495e358e9b8f49c49e30dffaacf245f5&ei=47

AI is taking jobs from software engineers.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/software-engineer-lost-his-150k-a-year-job-to-ai-he-s-been-rejected-from-800-jobs-and-forced-to-doordash-and-live-in-a-trailer-to-make-ends-meet/ar-AA1EKyt0?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=e1bb0143a9094c16b920ab97d65fe71c&ei=36

One can still find a job with SAS V9 skills. Finding a job with SAS Viya skills? Good luck with that unless you want to work at SAS Institute. And who knows the shelf life of a gig at SAS Institute.

It is sad to see so few jobs that require SAS. Most ask for R and Python… and Tableau.

Knowing SAS has gone from a scarce skill to a scarcely needed skill. The hype squad

As stated in the OP’s video, America has let most manufacturing go overseas, and specialized in high tech, where we have an edge.

Unfortunately, high tech does not employ the people who used to work in our factories.

That’s one reason our politics has become so divisive. Our working class has lost the American Dream, and they understandably resent it.

We can bring manufacturing back to America. But to make our factories competitive, we’ll have to pay the same wages that China and India pay.

It's unsustainable for labor costs to be so different in different countries. They will level out.

That may take another few decades. In the meantime, jobs — including jobs at SAS Institute — will continue to go overseas.

More American jobs at risk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXwjj2Dd5W8
499,000 US jobs at Risk – Car Brands Just CRUSHED the US Auto Industry! Tariffs, Trade War, EV
As Washington shifts focus from China to Japan, the repercussions are felt in factories across Ohio, Tennessee, and Ontario. Discover how Toyota, Honda, and Nissan, once American partners, are now reconsidering their investments in the U.S. and pivoting towards Asia.

When foreign labor costs 1/3 of American labor, of course jobs move overseas. That's just free-market capitalism.

Ma’s strongest point is that America had 13 wars in the past 30 years. Those wars gained us little; that money could have been spent creating American jobs.

Outsourcing will not stop until labor costs equalize. Our government could take action to smooth that transition. We have chosen conflict instead.