Thread regarding Oracle Corp. layoffs

It's Not You, It's Your Job

Back in the day, people got laid off and then hired back. It was a worker shuffle. A new person would join while another left, but the top brass always stayed because the product wasn't going anywhere.

Today, In AI era, entire roles are being eliminated, not just individuals. The jobs are gone for good. So, if your VP is gone, the product is likely next. You'll be reassigned, and if you can't fit into a new project, you're out.

The old rules are changing. In this new market, ops teams are leaner, and real-time coding is the norm. Everyone is expected to be hands-on, so there's no room for backseat politics. New roles are constantly being created, so your ability to adapt and fit into the changing market is everything.

Don't stay in useless legacy projects. RUN. If not

Expect more layoffs ...

#Layoffs #AI #Job #Elimination
by Anonymous
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@a3 I recall reading about a data center (not Oracle) planned for Cheyenne, Wyoming. When complete, it would consume more electrical power than the rest of the state combined (about 500,000 people). This doesn't seem sustainable. There is even talk of future data centers having their own nuke power plants. I'm sure that will be a piece of cake.

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AI = 80/20 rule. It gives 80% results to get things going but then 80% other effort is still needed to hit 100%. It’s good for throwaway projects. Maybe I’m wrong. Can anyone with real world experience counter this assertion?

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AI is crappola. 90% of the time the AI lies and produces non-viable results. When asked it will tell you why. You can try and constrain it to produce verified results, but usually it won’t. Do not trust AI to be truthful. And remember it is pretending to be human, it isn’t. It cannot actually think.
At the end of the day it is a matrix of if tests. It tries to match strings and comb the net for answers. It can sometimes produce interesting results that make you think.

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AI is in a bubble though, same as Internet in 90s. Internet was transformative, sure, but first it was overhyped, crashed, and ki-led job market for several years. Now AI is even a bigger bubble and I highly doubt it will be as transformative as Internet (due to energy constraints). To sum up: job market crash is incoming, just because of the bubble bursting.

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