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   Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Mar-2026 01:23:18 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

   Meta reportedly plans sweeping layoffs as AI costs increase
   https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/13/meta-layoffs-ai

   > Sources tell Reuters layoffs could affect 20% or more of company as plans reflect broader tensions within big tech

   Of course Meta is pretending this is because "effectiveness gains in AI".

   But if an industry is laying off tens of thousands of people, maybe it's not magic, but an industry in deep crisis. Using "AI" as a convenient excuse to not have stockholders worried.

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     Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Mar-2026 02:28:48 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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     Called it:
     https://archive.md/20260313093508/https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-03-13/the-ai-washing-of-job-cuts-is-corrosive-and-confusing

     > A Resume.org survey of 1,000 hiring managers found that 59% say they emphasize AI’s role in layoffs because it “is viewed more favorably by stakeholders than saying layoffs or hiring freezes are driven by financial constraints.”

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     Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Mar-2026 02:28:50 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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     Of course eventually, chickens will come home to roost. Amazon has been laying off tens of thousands of engineers over the last few years, sometimes claiming to be replacing them with "AI".

     The result is brain drain, and thus outages big and small:
     https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/

     clacke@libranet.de is my main repeated this.