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re: AI-related job news / layoffs
Posted on 2/27/26 at 7:16 am to 4cubbies
Posted on 2/27/26 at 7:16 am to 4cubbies
I agree with you. That hypothetical world is chaos. The residential real estate collapse alone would completely take our economy off course. White collar jobs buoy real estate in every major market.
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Posted on 2/27/26 at 7:19 am to TulsaSooner78
Block hired 8k people over last 2 years I believe. So they're really up 4k completely within the "AI era" so to speak.
Posted on 2/27/26 at 7:21 am to NIH
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I agree with you. That hypothetical world is chaos. The residential real estate collapse alone would completely take our economy off course. White collar jobs buoy real estate in every major market.
Posted on 2/27/26 at 7:24 am to NIH
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Either these tech gurus are full of shite or congress should be hauling in them to explain how this nation functions with millions of jobs being rendered obsolete.
I'm leaving towards #1.
Where are the amazing products being created with only AI? I'm not talking about demos and prototypes.
And a guy who was famous for massively overstaffing at Twitter with nothing to show for it should now be considered the canary in the coal mine for AI?
Come on, now.
Posted on 2/27/26 at 7:26 am to TulsaSooner78
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Amrita Ahuja
Its AI alright. Another Indian.
Blue Collar workers laugh until their fields are flooded with laid off White Collar workers. We will all serve and suffer together!
Posted on 2/27/26 at 7:27 am to GetMeOutOfHere
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Where are the amazing products being created with only AI?
Are you being serious?
Posted on 2/27/26 at 7:33 am to TulsaSooner78
What do you do when learning to code has run its course?
Posted on 2/27/26 at 7:33 am to 50_Tiger
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Blue Collar workers laugh until their fields are flooded with laid off White Collar workers. We will all serve and suffer together!
Who is hiring you when all the white collar desk jockeys are laid off?
I don't get the blue collar baws celebrating these layoffs as it is not good news for them...
Posted on 2/27/26 at 7:35 am to NIH
The middle class, alot of us here, are going to hurt badly of they really want AI and robotics to take over.
This is how you destroy the heart of this country.
This is how you destroy the heart of this country.
Posted on 2/27/26 at 7:38 am to Flats
The change wasn’t as sudden but, did anyone cry for the wagon wheel maker? Changes are inevitable. How we adapt to the changes is the question. I hope corporations aren’t making drastic changes just for FOMO. No matter your services or product, and how efficiently you can produce it, you need consumers with the capital to consume it. Consumers needs jobs to create that capital. Where and what are the jobs for these displaced workers? Despite current shortages, you eventually only need so many tradesmen. AI will eventually eliminate portions of even those jobs due to new design, technology and efficiencies. It’s exciting and concerning as my kids are entering the workforce.
Posted on 2/27/26 at 7:39 am to Diego Ricardo
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Block hired 8k people over last 2 years I believe. So they're really up 4k completely within the "AI era" so to speak.
I see people harping on this and it could serve as the main reason, but the idea here is that all it takes is the first company to do it and others will follow suit.
In this case, it's easy to blame Jack Dorsey's overstaffing habits as the reason from the outside, but there will be others following their lead and citing AI as the reason for upcoming layoffs...and they are coming
Posted on 2/27/26 at 7:40 am to Flats
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Are you being serious?
Yes.
Before you mention some one off task you've used it for, or how you got it to create a web site one time, that's all fine and good.
If it's going to replace all white collar industry, it needs to do more than that, and it's not going to stay cheap forever.
Anthropic and OpenAI need to make money eventually, spending $200 of tokens to do parlor tricks of checking your email or calendar with Openclaw ain't gonna cut it for most people.
Posted on 2/27/26 at 7:45 am to Bamafig
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The change wasn’t as sudden but, did anyone cry for the wagon wheel maker?
Covered wagon to car is a subtle change.
The Tech Bro want to bring about an AI hellscape that is openly hostile to humans. Do you not see the difference?
The Tech Bros like Altman, Karp and Tiel are not shy about their hostility to the plebs and if given no guard rails want all of us dead as we are "useless" in their eyes.
Do you really trust the Tech Bro elites?
On another note -- Altman has admitted that there is no real path to make OpenAI profitable. How is this anything but a prolonged hype cycle?
Final meme that the Tech Bros either have not thought about or just don't care about -- just because you could does not mean you should.
Posted on 2/27/26 at 7:49 am to aTmTexas Dillo
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What do you do when learning to code has run its course?
Learn to fish.
Posted on 2/27/26 at 7:51 am to canyon
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Learn to fish.
Reminds me. I have to go clean fish.
Posted on 2/27/26 at 7:52 am to NIH
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Our economy is not built to handle millions of layoffs.
They better redesign it then. Its going to happen at some point.
Posted on 2/27/26 at 7:53 am to The Egg
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I see people harping on this and it could serve as the main reason, but the idea here is that all it takes is the first company to do it and others will follow suit.
In this case, it's easy to blame Jack Dorsey's overstaffing habits as the reason from the outside, but there will be others following their lead and citing AI as the reason for upcoming layoffs...and they are coming
The layoffs are coming and they hardly have anything to do with AI directly but perhaps indirectly. Of course, executives in the midst of a bad news cycle will say "AI this, AI that" because that gets investors clapping like seals but I think the core thing in the upcoming layoff spree across all sectors is that we are in a recession but don't know it yet.
Posted on 2/27/26 at 7:59 am to NIH
Bull, there will be a massive increase in construction. Get rid of the illegal taco benders and you work. Or retired.
Posted on 2/27/26 at 8:00 am to jdd48
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Repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead.”
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As opposed to cutting nearly HALF the company in 1 swoop?
Makes sense. Those still working can be comfortable that their job is somewhat secure instead of stressfully waiting for the other shoe, then the next, to drop.
Also, by stringing it out he risked losing some talent he'd rather keep, a lot of people will up and move on when under threat of round after round of layoffs. He avoids that this way.
Posted on 2/27/26 at 8:11 am to bluedragon
A lot of people are going to be SOL. For the last quarter century this country operated on the assumption that kids should take student loans out, get an office job, and they will have a middle class life
Even before AI you had a funnel problem where boomers were waiting longer to retire, keeping more senior positions filled and keeping people in lower levels longer. Now the junior positions are going to get wiped out
AI is awesome (its incredible how fast it speeds up market research), but I think people are jumping the gun. AI hallucinates a lot, and it makes a lot of mistakes. Im guessing there will be a lot more errors in the workplace over the next few years from people not double checking the work
Even before AI you had a funnel problem where boomers were waiting longer to retire, keeping more senior positions filled and keeping people in lower levels longer. Now the junior positions are going to get wiped out
AI is awesome (its incredible how fast it speeds up market research), but I think people are jumping the gun. AI hallucinates a lot, and it makes a lot of mistakes. Im guessing there will be a lot more errors in the workplace over the next few years from people not double checking the work
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