It is a little ironic that this article reads so much like an AI-generated one.

Preaching to the HN choir - great for upvotes but does anyone read anything new in this? Feels like I’ve seen the same article about this every month and I don’t think business people care.

Cutting people because of AI makes no sense, you know these people are good without AI, you'd want to keep them! Freeze the constant over-hiring instead, and take care of the people you know aren't lobotomized yet, and train them if needed. I'm seeing so much shedding of knowledge workers though, even though AI clearly isn't ready to replace people, just ready to augment them currently, that it looks like looney-tunes currently.

One datacenter rack of NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs costs $8 million. These data centers are not going to pay for themselves.

I still think AI is just a cover story for these job cuts. Tech companies are still "rightsizing" after unsustainable growth during the pandemic. At the same time we're clearly headed into a recession.

Investors like growth, not shrinkage. Claiming AI is replacing those jobs helps avoid the appearence of shrinkage, while also feeding the AI hype machine that many of these companies have invested heavily into.

No. Get rid of the useless non-tech folks who make dance reels inside company premises, attention seekers who make day-in-life videos, youtube ad-money who'res who make "How I cracked <FAANG> company" videos, "staff" and "lead" engineers who write 40 page AI based design docs which reads like vomit, "mid" engineers who reply using AI when you're helping them to troubleshoot their issue, "thought leader" M2s and VPs who buy into every trend they read on Medium, etc...

Tech companies are bloated AF. Most of these people are not as crucial as it would seem.

The problem that software engineers and product teams often face is that the time from roadmap to feature is quite long, and AI has offered a clear, meaningful speedup to some parts, like writing tests and boilerplate. In many cases, the same ticket flow can be managed much faster with AI. So, what? We're not quite at the point where people have transitioned this into demand for more product deliveries faster. As soon as that occurs, it doesn't matter how great the AI is, because the current pace will be slow. Why stop at what the current roadmap is? Why not ask for double the features? When we gave everyone power tools that didn't dramatically make construction easier, it just enabled more complex buildings.

Relatively speaking, a company could obtain AGI first merely by just by keeping their critical thinkers while the rest of the industry offloads their thinking to LLMs. It wouldn’t be AGI, just GI, like we’ve always had before before GPT arrived