AMZN guts thousands of engineers in latest layoffs

[Anonymous]

Joe six pack CS undergraduates desirability will plummet… top notch CS folks will always be in demand ( much less than before though
CS premium vs others fields will plummet as well

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Today's news was more details about the 14K layoff announced previously.

(These layoffs were NOT because AI is doing the work. They are because companies are cutting projects to make room in budget for AI work.)

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/21/amazon-cut-thousands-of-engineers-in-its-record-layoffs-filings-show.html

We are going down. AI is going to bust.

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Anonymous wrote:Tech is dead fred. CS programs bleeding out as well. Bust out those basket weaving degrees!

You seem happy about that. Sounds like typical American.

And you are what exactly?

Untypical American. Educated, strategic, resilient, intelligent, not poor and not afraid of AI.

oh, also...family still intact and parents paying for college!

NP:

That's me too. Biglaw here. $25M NW.
Have embraced AI - in everything. It will change our world. Already has.
But, I wouldn't have my kids study CS - right now - or prob ever again.
Be strategic, people.

It’s refreshing to see that someone in the 1% is embracing AI. /s

You have enough money that 3 generations can live comfortable lives and never have to work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tech is dead fred. CS programs bleeding out as well. Bust out those basket weaving degrees!

We just go back to the old ways, where you got the good job because of who you know and maybe your gender and race, like the old days. Meritocracy, high tech degrees, hardly knew you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tech is dead fred. CS programs bleeding out as well. Bust out those basket weaving degrees!

You seem happy about that. Sounds like typical American.

And you are what exactly?

Untypical American. Educated, strategic, resilient, intelligent, not poor and not afraid of AI.

oh, also...family still intact and parents paying for college!

You sound just as obnoxious as the poster you replied to!

[Anonymous]

My DS is heading to college and then plans to spend a year working on a FIFO offshore oil rig. He thinks he needs the degree plus some hard, hands on skills.

[Anonymous]

time to deport all the h1b and f1 tech people

[Anonymous]

Bezos has always been the greediest MF around. in 5 years I bet they have 1/4 of current employees as they automated the distribution centers. The engineers are the highest paid employees so the trend is clear. No job is safe.

[Anonymous]

Look...it's a little bizarre that people speak of a company in terms of employees as though that's their purpose.

Companies exist to make as much money as possible with as little cost as possible...that's it.

Nobody cares about the guy who made the dating site Plenty of Fish. He wrote the book "The 4 Hour Workweek".

The guy decided that making like $5MM+ per year with zero employees and little work was absolutely worth it to him vs. getting VC money and trying to create the next Match.com.

My only point is nobody seems to care that he has no employees, yet he could certainly afford to hire a couple of people if he wanted...but why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look...it's a little bizarre that people speak of a company in terms of employees as though that's their purpose.

Companies exist to make as much money as possible with as little cost as possible...that's it.

Nobody cares about the guy who made the dating site Plenty of Fish. He wrote the book "The 4 Hour Workweek".

The guy decided that making like $5MM+ per year with zero employees and little work was absolutely worth it to him vs. getting VC money and trying to create the next Match.com.

My only point is nobody seems to care that he has no employees, yet he could certainly afford to hire a couple of people if he wanted...but why?

That guy didn’t actually sell anything except the myth of the 4 hour work week.

[Anonymous]

Tech has lost 500,000 jobs since 2023. If you follow the news.

[Anonymous]

It's funny to me all these people saying AI will change everything. I've tried really hard with it, and I find it makes everything worse. Flat, dead, slop-filled. The agents are inauthentic and inaccurate. Research and chat is unreliable. Sure, it helps me code, but you still need to know how to code--i.e. logically how programs work. I think this is more about the end stage financialization of our economy. Because no one makes anything anymore, the only way Amazon et al can increase their shareholder returns is to get more and more leveraged--either by cutting people or borrowing more / juicing their stock. I guess, net-net, I wouldn't advise my kids to get into tech because I think the whole tech facade is going to crash down, not because AI will take their jobs. Most people I know hate AI.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tech is dead fred. CS programs bleeding out as well. Bust out those basket weaving degrees!

Definitely time for humanities to shine. The one thing AI does poorly is anything creative. People who can write and tell stories are going to be in high demand and command astronomical salaries.

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Anonymous wrote:Tech is dead fred. CS programs bleeding out as well. Bust out those basket weaving degrees!

Definitely time for humanities to shine. The one thing AI does poorly is anything creative. People who can write and tell stories are going to be in high demand and command astronomical salaries.

Nah, that squishy stuff just goes to people who know people or have the right parents. Lots of people write and are good storytellers but end up as baristas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's funny to me all these people saying AI will change everything. I've tried really hard with it, and I find it makes everything worse. Flat, dead, slop-filled. The agents are inauthentic and inaccurate. Research and chat is unreliable. Sure, it helps me code, but you still need to know how to code--i.e. logically how programs work. I think this is more about the end stage financialization of our economy. Because no one makes anything anymore, the only way Amazon et al can increase their shareholder returns is to get more and more leveraged--either by cutting people or borrowing more / juicing their stock. I guess, net-net, I wouldn't advise my kids to get into tech because I think the whole tech facade is going to crash down, not because AI will take their jobs. Most people I know hate AI.

I generally agree with you...however, there is a decent amount of "slop" work performed by humans that AI can replace.

Let's face it, most commercial advertising is some form of slop. I think many of us find it mostly pointless and ineffective, but sometimes it's good to advertise a new product or a sales promotion or whatever. Do we care if the new Toyota commercial is created using AI actors and a crappy script...not really, as long as it's clear that they now offer 0% financing starting this day and ending that day.

Most corporate press releases are slop. As a public company, you have to put them out...but does anyone care how well your press release is written publicizing your quarterly financial results? No...though the numbers do have to be correct.

Seems we are finding a lot of popular music is slop because the big news item in country music is that some AI-generated song is the #1 country music song.

So, AI is great replacing relatively expensive slop with cheap slop.