#generativeai

And most definitely less efficient and reliable. Small satisfactions. I might be jobless, but it will still be fun to watch it unfold.

I accomplished something today in about 20 minutes with my manager using Copilot a project that would have taken the India team 11 hours to accomplish. 1 hour to explain. 6 hours to read the document and do the work. Another hour to re-explain what I wanted because they did it wrong, and then another 3 hours to finish the project.

The co-pilot answer was structured, tabular, concise, without excessive use of passive voice that makes my brain hurt.

Definitely the future

Here’s the current tech market we all work in, and a warning below:

“There are many different ways to lose your job. On Thursday, two tech giants decided to take different paths in dispatching thousands of their employees.

First there was Microsoft, which is said to be offering voluntary retirement to thousands of its workers. About 7% of of its US employees will be eligible for the buyouts, something the legacy giant has never previously done at this scale.

Then there’s Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta. The company shot out a memo on Thursday saying it planned to terminate 10% of workers, or roughly 8,000 employees, starting May 20. Meta employees have spent much of the year fretting about job cuts, which already hit the Reality Labs division and other teams. Now many more are coming.

So what’s driving the continuing, arguably accelerating series of mass terminations across tech companies? AI.”

WARNING

FIS are pushing AI usage really hard.

They will tell you it’s an amazing new tool that will revolutionise what you do.

Maybe.

But ultimately it is a tool that must pay for itself just like any other. And more than that - it’s providing corporations with an easy way to reduce resource costs.

The next time you load copilot at FIS and automate something or speed up tasks - what you are actually doing is helping FIS to eventually reduce headcount.

Everyone su-king up to AI right now needs to wake up and think about this. You are not an AI champion, you are an AI as-----n.

If you lose a trusted colleague or one day you yourself get that tap on the shoulder - you only have yourself to blame…

Dear Intel HR, and Lip BuTan,

My former undergrad mate went to Wharton (MBA finance), entered the industry and was mentored by the likes of Dan Niles. His view on justifiable Head Count for Intel Inc.

Design team = 20,000
Manufacturing = 40,000
Total = 60,000

Scrutinize, double scrutinize and triple scrutinize each and every engineer and upper management, especially the dead wood at HIGHER grades. Most of them are needless overheads and only serve to drag the company down. This is the ERA of AI assisted development...
Leverage AI assisted development to layoff DEADWOOD.

As an INTEL INC's investor (long term) and a significant retail investor of INTEL INC.,
I humbly request the above in the BEST interest of Intel Inc - for all INTEL employees, all investors, all partners, and the entire semiconductor industry, ...

Thanks and best wishes,
A US citizen and Intel Inc long term investor

We all see the massive cost, lack of efficiency, and the lack of ROI.

AI is massively subsidized by companies burning money to prop it up. For every dollar we spend the AI company loses $3-8, SERIOUSLY LOOK IT UP! At some point they will need to turn a profit. If that was today it would mean increasing the cost 300-800%. The hope is making it more efficient, but can they really make it 300-800% more efficient in the near future? Open AI burns 100 BILLION DOLLARS a year, without making a dollar. Even if they make it 200% more efficient, they will still need to more than double the price to make any money.

With how leadership is "adopting" the AI future, AI won't replace jobs, the massive unstoppable loss will.

Anthropic and OpenAI are honey potting companies like BNY into building infrastructure supported by thier products and will lock us in to a massive bill we can't avoid.

If you care about longevity in your career or a stable and evolving strategy...stay away from Cigna. Not sure whose bright idea it was to have a group of fresh college kids and HIH create an AI slop fest of tech. Not to mention all the senior technologists are the ones who managed to create a cr-p show for us at express scripts.

Expect them to do what they did to a lot of us in esi.

Run. Run far and away

https://youtu.be/2oivxM6K4pw

Meanwhile I'm here, where they outsource more yearly and we have Project LLM (Project Literally Lose Millions) to accelerate slop to force us all to swim so slowly in garbage. Omg

While the media fawns over Michael Dell hitting the $1B mark in "donations" to UT Austin, let’s look at the predatory math behind the headlines. This isn’t a gift to the public; it’s a masterclass in how billionaires use the Trump-era tax code to privatize our social policy.
Dell isn't donating "hard-earned cash." He’s offloading highly appreciated stock to his own private foundation to wipe out his tax liability. Every dollar he "saves" in taxes is a dollar stolen from the public treasury—money that should have funded basic community clinics and rural hospitals. Instead, it’s being funneled into high-tech "AI medical hubs" that serve as high-interest monuments to his corporate interests.
The "20-year promise" of his child investment accounts is even more insulting. He’s promising a few thousand dollars for a child in 2045, paid for by the massive tax breaks he gets today. Meanwhile, those same parents are drowning in healthcare costs. Family premiums have jumped nearly 50% in a decade, and high-tech centers like Dell’s only drive those costs higher by forcing an "innovation arms race" that hospitals pay for by hiking your rates.
We are literally subsidizing billionaire legacies with our own medical debt. This is the endgame of extreme neoliberalism: a world where the 0.1% decides who gets to survive based on which social problems look best on a building. We don’t need more billionaire "favors"; we need a tax system that doesn't treat the middle class like a piggy bank for the elite.

To Project LLM

Literally Losing Millions

Fiserv CIO doesn't use nor understand AI properly even as a fintech and throw an LLM at everything even in finance. So I think the name makes sense. hbu?

If you can imagine Gen AI doing your job, you need to be looking for a new job because you can bet your bottom dollar it's only a matter of time (and not that much time) before you are replaced.

Roles are going to Poland or AI.… “too much work” that’s what they say. Now they track how long we are active, production expectations through the roof, people getting ROD or PIP…. I heard June and July. Possibly FIU first?

https://hoodline.com/2026/04/oracle-plugs-san-jose-ai-data-centers-into-massive-bloom-energy-power-deal/

Oracle is locking in a mountain of electricity for its AI ambitions, signing on for up to 2.8 gigawatts of Bloom Energy fuel-cell power to feed its data-center buildout. An initial 1.2 GW is already under contract and is being rolled out across Oracle projects this year and through 2027. The deal highlights how the AI bo-m is forcing cloud giants to secure their own on-site power instead of waiting in line for slow utility interconnections.

Some of the employees that were recently laid off due to “AI” are being replaced by previous DISH employees in Boulder with no AI experience and a new title at Qualcomm. Sounds like the new CIO is bringing in ex-DISH employees to replace perfectly good San Diego employees.

https://fortune.com/2026/04/08/gen-z-workers-sabotage-ai-rollout-backlash/

Here’s the real situation on Qualcomm layoff rumors right now — what’s confirmed, what’s circulating internally, and what’s just speculation.

🔍 What’s Confirmed (Public, Verifiable)

These are not rumors — they’re official:

• A small WARN filing (5 employees) in San Diego for May 26, 2026
• Previous rounds in 2024–2025:• 226 employees across 16 San Diego sites
• Earlier 1,250+ cuts less than a year before

• Qualcomm continues targeted, small-scale reductions as part of its shift away from smartphone dependency toward AI PCs, automotive, and edge compute

These are documented and not rumor-driven.

🔄 What’s Rumored (Inside the Industry)

These are circulating in semiconductor circles, but not confirmed by filings or press:

1. “More micro‑layoffs coming in San Diego”

• Several engineers report that Qualcomm may continue small WARN filings (5–20 people) throughout 2026
• Pattern matches the April 2026 filing
• These would be team-specific, not company-wide

1. “Modem teams may shrink again”

• Because Apple is reducing reliance on Qualcomm modems
• Some internal chatter suggests select modem sub-teams could be trimmed
• No official documents yet

1. “AI PC push is causing internal reshuffling”

• Snapdragon X Elite and AI PC roadmap are pulling resources
• Rumor: some legacy teams may be merged or dissolved
• This usually leads to role eliminations or reassignments

1. “Automotive division hiring while other groups freeze”

• Not layoffs, but a shift in headcount allocation
• Some groups feel “frozen” while auto/AI groups continue hiring
• This often precedes targeted cuts

🧭 What’s NOT Happening (Despite Online Speculation)

These rumors are false or exaggerated:

• ❌ No evidence of a large mass layoff
• ❌ No sign of a 10%+ workforce reduction
• ❌ No confirmation of layoffs tied to the rumored Intel acquisition exploration
• ❌ No broad hiring freeze across the company

Qualcomm is doing surgical, strategic cuts, not sweeping layoffs.

📌 Why Rumors Are Spreading Now

Three reasons:

1. Smartphone demand is still soft
2. AI PC transition is expensive
3. Qualcomm is reallocating talent, which always creates anxiety inside engineering teams

When a company shifts strategy, rumors fill the gaps before official announcements.

Very positive article, as it's nearly proof-of-concept that we're one step closer to getting executives completely replaced by AI bots.

• IBM's Dave McCann is using an AI agent to prepare for client meetings.
• He said "Digital Dave" helps him save five hours a week by eliminating 30-minute prep calls.
• Companies from tiny startups to the biggest firms are building AI agents to take on routine work.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-agent-saving-ibm-consulting-leader-hours-every-week-2026-4

By: Tim Paradis |
Apr 9, 2026, 1:06 PM CT

Dave McCann oversees thousands of humans, and also an AI agent he named after himself: Digital Dave.

One of the most valuable things it does is conduct research, including on the company's customers. That's a big help for McCann, who, as a global managing partner for transformation at IBM Consulting, is responsible for thousands of clients, including Nestlé, Ericsson, and Riyadh Air.

The agent — it's actually a collection of AI agents and assistants — scans McCann's calendar for client meetings and drafts a list of 10 things he needs to know for each one. The goal, McCann told Business Insider, was to free up time he and his staff spent preparing for the meetings.

Under the old setup, people on his team would put together a briefing document with him and typically have a 30-minute prep call ahead of the client meeting.

"All that's now gone," said McCann, who is tasked with helping transform the global IBM Consulting business, which has nearly 150,000 employees.

He generally talks with about 10 clients a week, so the agent saves him roughly five hours of prep time, McCann said.

"All the time I used to invest in client prep, I can now see more clients," he said.

Freeing up the team

McCann's research agent, which he and his team began building this past fall, is based on a tool that a group at the company had started to develop as part of an annual internal competition.

The agent reviews in-house data, what IBM and the client are doing in the market, external data, and account details — such as project status and services sold and purchased, McCann said. It can also identify industry trends and client needs by, for example, reviewing a firm's annual report and identifying a corresponding service IBM could provide.

Digital Dave also saves McCann's team time, he said, because the three or four staffers who used to spend hours pulling together insights for the prep calls are now free to do other work.

"It's not just about driving efficiencies, but it's really about transforming how work gets done," McCann said.

The agent's research abilities aren't limited to client reports. McCann has also begun using it to help him assess the hundreds of IBM Consulting partners he evaluates each year. The goal, he said, is making informed decisions and giving the execs good advice about their strengths and weaknesses as part of their performance evaluation.

McCann said the data the agent reviews can include the services execs sold and the profits they generated, the training they provided, and the impact they had on their teams' development. Before the agent, he said, his approach involved perhaps a dozen spreadsheets culminating in "the worst pivot table of your life."

Now, McCann said, all of the data goes into a model, and he can ask pointed questions and make queries about top performers in a particular parameter.

'That multiplier effect'

One benefit of building agents, McCann said, is that IBMers who develop them can share them with others on their team or more broadly within the company, "so it immediately creates that multiplier effect."

Many of the people who report to him have created agents, he said. There's a healthy competition, McCann said, to engineer the most robust digital sidekicks, especially because workers can build off of what their colleagues created.

Across industries, companies are developing AI agents to take on knowledge work — especially tedious tasks — once handled by humans. From one-person startups to consulting giants, firms are using agents across functions such as HR, IT, finance, communications, and training.

Agents can handle a range of functions, including gathering information, processing paperwork, drafting communications, taking meeting minutes, and pulling research. It's still early, but these systems are quickly becoming a major focus of corporate AI efforts as companies look to turn generative AI into something that can actually take work off employees' plates.

One challenge McCann sees with clients and building agents is having access to data. IBM Consulting's most advanced clients — maybe a Fortune 100 or Fortune 500 company — might have given access to data to several hundred people, but not to 5,000 people in their finance division or 10,000 people in HR, McCann said. Concerns about security and how to manage the innovation can be roadblocks.

Until you unlock the data, individual workers might be able to get more done, but "you don't get that multiplier effect of the productivity," he said.

For McCann's work, Digital Dave means that he gets critical time back on his calendar.

"I can have much more focused attention out with our clients and with our humans while I have the operations of the business now being run more digitally," he said.

It feels like we are just playing a new meta… “look how much we are using AI for everything! Omg it’s amazing!”

Meanwhile, I’m dying to work on any customer problem. 😆 is it just me or are we in crazy town?

No need to give specifics, but I am just curious about everyone's experience with AI outside of conversational chat, so I'm not talking about prompting Copilot to help with summarizing stuff, helping debug a coding problem, or writing user stories... I mean like actually using Copilot agents to streamline tasks, etc.. I've found that in all the cases where we've tried to chase down AI tools or agents, all the ideas have failed to be implemented properly or are still ongoing, but not very hopeful about the end result.

I'm not anti-AI because I know that Copilot chat can be helpful, but when we get a push to add AI in everything, it's like we always go towards the conversational chat components and not in the other direction of actually innovative solutions like agents, etc. I am open to learning more since this seems to be the future, but I just haven't seen the return on investment from my perspective.

Why Oracle is cutting so deep, so fast
The layoffs are directly tied to Oracle’s aggressive and debt-heavy expansion into artificial intelligence infrastructure. According to analysis from TD Cowen, the job cuts are expected to free up between $8 billion and $10 billion in cash flow — money the company urgently needs to fund a massive buildout of AI data centers.

This Layoff was entirely orchestrated through AI and ML tools inside Oracle. This is the first AI orchestrated layoff completely done end to end in IT industry. The mail were scheduled on time, the slack channel were turned off (Just like last time). but all the rest of orchestration like monitoring a person in his laptop, blocking all access, automated mail access removal and shut down of mail and finally laptop shutting down.
Automated Severance calculation and everything goes smooth.

But the way Layoff was conducted was totally InHuman and people who worked 15+, 20+ years or 30+ years deserve some respect and it could have been handled better. They were thrown like bread crumbs.

Copilot will do your job
:(

Managers stack rank their teams. There is obviously bias if you have a strong relationship with your direct or skip. But if you have not performed and can’t justify your salary, then you are likely gone. It’s not a charity, and they have to cut jobs somewhere to fund AI. Sales is still bloated at Oracle.

Speaking for sales, if you look at your team and you think there’s a chance you’re bottom 3, you’re likely gone. The March 31st layoffs are no joke. And co primes are in serious trouble.

Not trying to be cynical, just being honest. There are too many people who collect $150-200k year salaries and haven’t sold anything of significance or shown value, and a good relationship with your manager can only buy you so much time.

If folks think otherwise, please let me know. But we are about to see the most significant cuts in Oracle history.

We have co primes who are double paid on deals that they seldom have direct involvement with. Inside sales reps who push paper less effectively than AI could or field sellers. We are still bloated.

They will cut big time and the One Oracle and AI selling models will be figured out come June 1.

Are you guys allowed to use Cursor + latest LLM models to code?

Do you feel embarrassed talking to tech friends from other companies when the topic of AI comes up? They’ve been telling me for TWO YEARS that I would get to use AI. So far zilch, nothing, just stories from the home page by people I don’t know with Indian accents. Apparently only foreigners are worth investing in a subscription to ChatGPT. Engagement — ZERO

Looks like the US is heading into a collapse over the next decade with the relentless jobs being lost due to H1B visas Ofdshoeing and AI.

I wouldn’t be surprised at all if we see over 50% of white collar jobs completely gone over the next 5 years.

This is a real SHTF scenario and most people still have their heads up their as--s when it comes to this

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.

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.

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

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".

Isn’t it cool how the bank is training us in AI and encouraging us to try to automate some of our processes? No free lunches here. Every process you automate is one more step towards your own layoff. Even the things that aren’t successful highlight to the LLM what is important on the front line and what should get automated. Think you’re gonna get a nice bonus for alll that AI work you do? I have a Tuesday meeting set up for you. Don’t train your robot job destroyer .

Following block , OpenText will use this at its new narrative

Before it was “Covid” then it was “tariffs/trump” now it’ll be AI

This is the only option they know

McKinsey suit aka Big Al is going to run roughshod on Verizon pretty soon. This firm is going to be so different to what it was 6 months ago. Dismantling the layer upon layers of upper Management fat and bringing in a consulting rigor that might help the firm in the short term, but is going to bleed the firm dry long term. The biggest issue is the utter lack of vision to make Verizon stand out and out compete by being innovative. All we see is bean counters proposing more job cuts to reduce costs while having no plans for what the day after is going to look like. No matter what, Verizon will never be as cost competitive as T-Mo as we have Wireline assets that a real money sink. No firm run by a consultant is going to thrive in the current tech environment.We need someone of the likes of Musk or Bezos or Jensen Huang or Hock Tan, not some suit who uses fancy words like North Star, granularity, blue ocean etc

Labor cost margin

https://fortune.com/2026/03/10/ceos-ai-labor-cost-margin-workforce/

what are your thoughts on shanon as the new AI leader compared to savnay? do you think she has a vision to turn it into a core flagship offering or will it remain optional feature with limited adoption?

https://search.app/TKwZo

Any news of layoffs from AI taking over entry level roles?