AI at your company and layoffs?
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Anonymous
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As I see all these corporate layoff announcements that vaguely reference AI efficiencies, I can't help but think about how terrible all the AI implementation has been at my company. Maybe we're some kind of outlier, but all the attempts at AI have either been counterproductive in terms of efficiency or just generally useless. Our accounting/finance department tried to AI pilot for vendor invoices and the error rates were sky high. We've also tried using AI in writing proposals, but the teams have spent more time trying to get the data into a format that the AI can use than they would have taken just writing the proposal themselves. We have an internal AI chatbot that is pretty useless and in a text format so I have to transfer it over to a powerpoint or whatever format I need it for. I've tried it on a number of projects and it spits out junk. The only thing it seems to do well is summarize long text and recordings of meetings. We also now have an AI voice doing all the internal trainings, which I suppose saves some small amount of time for whoever used to record that. I have heard that some folks who do software development say it has increased efficiency for them, although even there I've heard about the developers finding out after the fact that the AI created flawed code that took time to fix.
I've also seen a bunch of reports that seem to confirm my experience. https://cmr.berkeley.edu/2025/10/seven-myths-about-ai-and-productivity-what-the-evidence-really-says/ Is anyone else seeing real gains? |
Anonymous
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AI is an excuse
look at the corporations doing this, at the same time they are hiring thousands of H1Bs. https://fortune.com/2025/10/28/corporations-companies-mass-layoffs-2025-ai-tech-retail-tariffs/ |
Anonymous
| AI is trash. The people at my company who are relying heavily on AI just look less and less professional. Their emails are unreadable. |
Anonymous
So, the only real-world use of AI that i see working is for companies like where my kid works. He and other are ML engineers, SWE, etc...and they use AI in real-time as an extension of their development. They will write some code, then have AI write 50 lines of code to finish their thought, then correct the AI in real-time and then keep going. He will admit that it's generally a disaster to have AI write thousands of lines of code because it will take you longer to fix all the errors, then a human writing it from scratch. However, he is insanely more productive vs. just 2 years ago the way he incorporates it. So, by default if someone like my kid is now 5x more productive, well you need fewer people overall...unless you decide you will try to launch 5x more products or dramatically reduce upgrade launches, etc. |
Anonymous
I think it is a combination of this, AI and off shoring. But aren't we supposed to be in the golden age??? |
Anonymous
No, China is at its golden age. And it also knows what not to do after watching USA. |
Anonymous
| AI has been great for me because I am more senior and it improves my efficiency. I find I'm no longer willing to train younger employees who don't have a strong work ethic or a good attitude because it's so much easier to work with AI than with them. Happy to train good people, though, and in fact, they have helped me use AI! |
Anonymous
| AI replaces the lazy |
Anonymous
| AI replaces all |
Anonymous
| It is not just AI. Massive offshoring is contributing to layoffs. And it is not just India. Mexico is the next big thing. |
Anonymous
China is on the verge of societal collapse also. They suppress all outgoing info. |