https://youtu.be/uOIPmQrrgnQ?si=6h1vMBB1FLWtW5P9
Skip to @6:20 for the lowdown.
SAS could awaken to this and make the painful cuts and radical changes necessary to carve new opportunities in niche markets. Not thinking a “Viya facelift” but instead brand new initiatives using freed up cash flow from radical cuts.
Agree, AI creates permanent change such that ordinary 1x programmers are no longer needed.
Put another way, the work of a senior developer mentoring two junior developers can now be done by a senior developer with an AI. The AI can code almost any common algorithm that the juniors can.
Any Board of Directors, given the chance to save the cost of two employees, will find it an easy decision.
Already left SAS, but these trends are still concerning in general. Sure, the tech companies most likely over-hired in that bo-m period, but then the rise of AI at roughly the same time as those mass layoffs occurred seems to be giving way to a permanent shift in the demand for this type of labor or a shift to different labor. The "10x programmer" can probably now be "20x". The "5x" can maybe be "10x". Why would industries need normal "1x" folks? What do they do? The video didn't seem to explain where those laid off went, unless I missed it.
A facelift won't help Viya. Throwing more money at a bad investment is never a good idea.
It will never happen.
It should. Maybe eliminate some of the bazillion managers and senior managers, directors and senior directors, VPs and SVPs ... imagine the savings.
But it will never happen.