RE: https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/116561043652311822
Layoffs given AI tools is stupid beyond belief.
The value of a team is institutional knowledge.
The value of a team is understanding customers and systems and the history of tradeoffs.
Throwing that away is just fucking stupid.
Computers have gone from being a bicycle for the mind to a motorcycle for the mind. Harness the power of those minds.
The push for this is about labor, and is about power. CEOs all around the world have wet dreams of never having to pay people ever again. Of never having to hire people.
Slaves would be good though.
And AI "agents" is the closest CEOs can get to slaves. The next closest thing are employees that are too terrified of getting fired to stand up for themselves.
No surprise, then, that in this same blogpost, in the same breath, GitLab's CEO announced layoffs.
