it’s been about a week since I posted about the AI layoffs .. in that week there have been three additional layoff notices from the high tech industry .. The software is everything people ..these layoffs of at least 5% of their existing workforce are based upon restructuring in anticipation of improved productivity gains due to AI ..

We Are Laying Off — eliminating jobs [people] that are expected to be replaced by improved, more productive computer programs , ie, AI.

he who competes with a machine must become a machine –Kurt Vonnegut

takes me back to 2k– thank you mr. greenspan

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Ten percent of every tech startup’s employees are becoming a completely different species to the ninety percent. Because their productivity is now at this exponential scale and they are actually finding every single person around them and every other process to be slow,” he said.

His evidence: “Ninety percent of code at CRED is written by AI now. This number would have been maybe five percent a year ago.” Five to ninety percent in a year is a dramatic shift by any measure, and Shah made clear the company was still in the middle of figuring out what building agentically at scale actually looks like.