Sounds familiar. “Everyone I talked to is consumed by AI—either how to use it, how to pretend to use it, how much they hate using it, how it’s going to eliminate their position or their company’s product,” he said.
https://www.wsj.com/business/how-working-in-america-became-so-joyless-a1976fd2?st=gtZ34P&reflink=article_copyURL_share
@jz oh I don't think it's sensible and in reality all they do is burn out whomever is left, just the logic behind them and that ai isn't replacing people, budget constraints are, same as always
@he I’ll buy that only up to a certain point. Based on information from a former SAP T5 architect who went to Oracle after SAP, Oracle TQMs were let go on the spot even with customer severity-1’s. That’s not strategic, that is customer relationship $u1c1d€.
@f6 so once again this isn't employees being displaced by ai but a strategic decision to cut need staff temporarily so that they can free up cash to pay for ai infrastructure that they have contracted to companies that can't pay for it. I'll give ck one thing, it's very good we didn't get into the air hosting business and left that with oracle and the hyperscallers
@dg Oracle’s pyramid looks like it just got carpet-bombed
https://rollingout.com/2026/03/31/oracle-slashes-30000-jobs-with-a-cold-6/
Chuck was at the top of the pyramid.
Now this position will remain empty forever.
@da The pyramid shrinks.
With the proviso that nothing is static...
The base of the pyramid is the junior resource. Most don't make it to the top anyhow. They can't preform it or move to other fields for other reasons.
The total number of senior people over time could shrink (likely), remain static, or grow. Doesn't matter.
The number of people that go into the field will be more carefully selected as they no longer need so many junior people to be at the bottom just to get the grunt work done.
Fewer but better selected people will go into the career funnel and rise to the top.
@ae But if we narrow down the junior positions but still need seniors because the models are all very smart but frozen where they are unless you tell them each time they make the same mistake, then were will those senior staff come from in ten years time once those seniors are promoted or retire? You can see a consistent theme through all this AI, short term cuts to fund an AI revolution that can't actually replace anyone by just doing without them for now with likely disastrous costs after those penny pinching accountants are long gone sat on top of their big piles of money without facing any consequence for their actions. Austerity always causes more problems and never solves any whenever you are talking about groups and only works when you talk about individuals and is the same mistake of treating the firm or the nation as the same thing as a household.
@ae the title was supposed to read joylessness consistent with the WSJ article. Damn spellcheck
AI is not eliminating jobs.
What it will do is narrow the pyramid of junior people as more senior people can use good AI for what a junior person used to be used for.
Someone still has to review and verify everything as LLMs are just probabilistic engines not thinking machines. Only a fool would trust anything produced without senior review and signoff.
The firings are purely driven by macro-economic factors.
Too many people have never seen a real recession because the Fed has been hiding them for a few decades.