Thread regarding SAS Institute layoffs

The good news from a job security standpoint is that our “thought leadership” is fairly clueless. If there are job cuts it will not be because AI is replacing human workers.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/tech-workers-are-in-deep-deep-trouble/ar-AA1Q3UhP?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=21e4214d8c934b2ef4231a74a39b4ec3&ei=12

https://www.thestreet.com/employment/white-collar-workers-should-worry-about-this-concerning-trend

"Ensuring AI systems are trained on diverse datasets to avoid bias and promote equitable outcomes."

What a load of BS! SAS doesn't and will never have the resources to be in the business of training frontier LLMs, so how can they ensure that happens? ...unless of course, they're still talking about traditional machine learning models on structured data...which is news from two decades ago.

Is it really AI, though - https://bloomberry.com/blog/amazons-layoffs-tell-half-the-story-the-data-tells-the-rest/

Amazon just laid off 14,000. If you want a career, you must be able to do things that AI cannot do.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/business/amazon-layoffs

SAS is running down the "trustworthy AI" as a gambit. I suspect they've concluded it's not possible to compete with the direct AI companies. Here's a snippet from a SAS presentation:

Ensuring AI systems are trained on diverse datasets to avoid bias and promote equitable outcomes.

SO.................what do you think that means? Diverse and equitable are slippery slopes......

Both Microsoft and Google ...

Have you seen the buggy updates that Microsoft has been putting out? Here's just a few of the recent ones:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/microsoft_bug_keyboard_mouse/
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/16/windows_11_update_localhost/
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/13/windows_11_media_creation/

They laid off a bunch of testers years back and are now touting their AI for code generation? Sounds like a recipe for disaster.

To an extent, one can predict SAS by what the leading Big Tech companies are doing. Both Microsoft and Google report that more than 25% of their code is generated by AI.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-as-30percent-of-microsoft-code-is-written-by-ai.html

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/29/24282757/google-new-code-generated-ai-q3-2024

Not just AI but robot army? How scary!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/elon-musk-defends-1-trillion-pay-package-i-just-don-t-feel-comfortable-building-a-robot-army-here-and-then-being-ousted/ar-AA1P3nxA?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=b656637ddcf148418bf505bf1e086798&ei=16

All factory jobs that can be automated, will be. China is years ahead of America in this regard:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/10/12/why-western-executives-visit-china-coming-back-terrified/



In white-collar professions, a new study from Harvard agrees with Stanford that AI replaces junior employees. They often perform rote clerical tasks that AI can easily do:

https://observer.com/2025/09/ai-shrinking-job-market-junior-workers-harvard-study/

SAS will eventually embrace AI, for the same reason robots replace humans in factories. Every software company will do the same. In this new economy, if you want a job, you’ll have to be able to do things that AI cannot do.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2025/08/26/ai-ki-ls-jobs-says-stanford-study-at-least-in-these-circumstances/

In late September 2025, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon announced a three-year global hiring freeze for the company. The freeze, affecting Walmart's 2.1 million employees worldwide, is part of a plan to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) and reshape existing jobs to increase efficiency.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/smallbusiness/walmart-freezes-hiring-for-3-years-maybe-no-job-survives-ai-warns-ceo/ss-AA1NNcHL#image=2

AWS Outage That Took Down Internet Came After Amazon Fired Tons of Workers in Favor of AI
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/aws-outage-amazon-fired-workers-ai

Amazon layoffs: Is Amazon replacing humans with robots? Leaked docs reveal company's plan to replace 600,000 workers with robots by 2027.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/amazon-layoffs-is-amazon-replacing-humans-with-robots-leaked-docs-reveal-companys-plan-to-replace-600000-workers-with-robots-by-2027/articleshow/124727671.cms?from=mdr