They said that. Then they built the pricing engine, the proposal bot, the forecasting model, SalesChat, and gave AI control of pipeline health. Now I’m just here doing mandatory compliance training & endorsements while the bot closes deals.
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Where your post goes too far with no real meat behind it:
- Painting AI roles as totally doomed now.
- Saying “you’re being used” as if it’s a coordinated conspiracy.
- Claiming Microsoft’s director layoff = thousands being cut.
If you’re adapting to AI, don’t chase certifications. You should try to build real value instead. Learn how to use AI to solve problems in your domain. That’s what companies still need and will pay for.
Inside info (not an employee)
Working "in" AI won't help you.
The ones on the AI teams are being let go as soon as the CEOs have Agentic running certain jobs.
Only 1 of these layoffs was big enough to get into mainstream news - and there are 1000's - Microsoft's AI director.
If you think taking that "AI bootcamp" or getting that MBA will help your chances, stop, now. There simply will not be a role for you as leadership gets it up and running. You are being used. And giving your $ away. The market is saturated. Everybody is an "AI expert". They only need maybe 1 technician per company because entire teams are not required after rollout.
The revenue and cost saving for tech companies to decrease their debt through Agentic AI is astronomical. It's $$billions.
UBI will exist but it will not be paying for the lifestyle you currently have. Perhaps overdue to many, the essential workers of the pandemic will see their salaries increased, an unfortunate reality now for the many who stayed home, not realizing that was a primer to now.
Dell doesn't give a c@#P about you, so take what you can from them and leave. You owe them nothing
Two things come to mind
https://x.com/i/status/1931850914840920542
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1h1o01DqiA
This is about the bigger picture of AI and how it will evolve, reshape our way of life, and ultimately alter the course of humanity through an entirely new lens. Don’t fool yourself, young Padawan. Universal Basic Income may sound like a gift, but it could be the trojan horse that trades your freedom for convenience.
Make no mistake, Dell is hardware company that enables AI. Nothing more, nothing less.
Dell’s Kodak moment already happened.
The fact that they’re still referencing Kodak shows the irony: Kodak had the tech. Dell doesn’t. Their AI play is “resell NVIDIA,” not “build the future.” Their survival play is inertia.
A new model of the American Dream is emerging let’s call it:
“The Autonomy Dream”
Own your time. Own your mind. Own your income. Live with purpose not just a paycheck.
It’s not about rich vs. poor anymore. It’s free vs. stuck.
The gig economy already laid the groundwork for this. Many people already live without traditional employment bouncing between contract work, side hustles, and subsidies. UBI just formalizes the instability into a monthly check.
Universal Basic Income may become necessary because of AI.
AI is accelerating fast. Whether it’s UBI, social credits, or a post-labor economy, some version of “you get credits to live” is being discussed seriously.
The question isn’t if it’s coming - it’s who controls it, how it’s distributed, and what freedoms you keep.
10 Things Humanity Needs to Know According to ChatGPT:
- You are being tracked constantly
- Food is engineered to keep you addicted and sick
- The internet is being sanitized and controlled
- Money is created out of thin air
- Modern medicine often treats symptoms, not causes
- Most history taught in schools is sanitized and incomplete
- The digital divide is widening
- Space isn’t as far away as you think
- Synthetic biology and gene editing are advancing quietly
- Economic collapse is always closer than it looks
Have you taken the AI agentic course? It clearly stated that AI will eventually replace our roles. When exactly? I'm not certain, but it could align with the August layoffs.
@b6 This is such a golden perspective.. you’ve articulated so clearly what so many have struggled to express for years. The disconnect between boardroom discussions and ground reality on AI is real, and it’s often what slows down meaningful progress. Catching the wave requires more than ambition.. it needs alignment, understanding, and action at every level. Thank you for putting this into words so powerfully!
I’m very involved in the AI stuff and can confirm it’s total hype and bullsh-t. There’s seriously impressive magic happening out there and it will totally replace us. But it ain’t there yet. And Dell certainly won’t do anything remotely innovative except throw tons more money at vendor software and Bain and Deloitte out of desperation to avoid a “Kodak moment” as the execs like to say.
Currently we’re being replaced by cloud and cheap overseas contractors under the guise of AI. But if it pumps the stock price and sells more servers, Jeff Clarke will scream on stage at DTW like Steve Balmer or Howard Dean.
The thing is, Kodak is a bad analogy. They invented digital cameras and then sat on it too long out of fear of cannibalizing their core business. What did Dell invent? Bigger boxes with more electricity and cooling?
JC said Dell is the "AI company". The All In company.
Until humans are no longer needed to check all of these AI bots, you'll still need humans.
Agentic AI is the hope here but I haven't seen it in reality.
YES all it's bullsh-t, one thing is to sell bargain NVIDIA bad integrated GPUs to Elon Musk sh-----d and other is this is good case studies or get CIO best practices to develope it into Dell hahaha total disaster until now, I bet my cents they won't do anything valuable into the inside org that is disruptive and sustituite human talent.