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The Dumbest Move in Tech Right Now: Laying Off Developers Because of AI (ppaolo.substack.com)
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[–] Zenith@lemm.ee 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It doesn’t have to make sense or make the outcome be better, the only thing it has to do is make the company look better on paper to its shareholders. If something can make the company look better on paper it will be done, the quality of the work is not relevant

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 4 points 6 hours ago

Not only the shareholders. If some of the higher level administration can get richer in the short run, even if that might actually hurt the shareholders in the medium run, you can bet that many of them will do so.