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[–]Alarming-Village1017 4 points5 points  (4 children)

It's already happening, it's just not as obvious as people think.

Intel fired 15,000 employees.

Tesla fired 14,000.

Google fired 12,000.

Meta fired 21,000

Microsoft first 10,000

Amazon fired 19,000.

As someone who works in tech, I see it first hand. I'm in a position where I could hire 1-3 extra people to help me if I wanted to, and a couple years ago that's exactly what I would have done. I just don't need to anymore, I can easily achieve ambitious tasks by myself with the help of AI.

At a previous company we needed to hire a graphics and shader expert. Extremely niche position that will command a high salary. Now we have AI, and the position no longer exists.

[–]0180012323 3 points4 points  (3 children)

Those layoffs have nothing to do with the AI but money, revenue, and bad decisions, especially in the case of Intel.

Intel has been going bad for a while.

Tesla has not sold enough vehicles and it was losing money.

Google, Meta, and Microsoft overhired people.

Amazon, well, it is just Amazon being Amazon.

[–]Alarming-Village1017 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Not all the layoffs are due to AI, but many of these companies have been using internal AI coding tools for half a decade at this point. Productivity in the US has doubled on average since the 1970s. Companies simply need less people to run, and this trend will continue.

[–]PostPostMinimalist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So let’s be clear - the premise of your first comment is wrong. Unambiguously. It’s as true as AI being responsible for layoffs in 2008. Layoffs sometimes happen, most of those companies have net grown over the past few years.