#ai

Many HR functions could be handled far more efficiently by AI. Tasks like managing job offers, coordinating interviews, handling relocations, and processing employee concerns need accuracy and consistency, and AI is way better at that than traditional systems. less delays, less errors.

So this was just a “let’s sell you on AI” meeting?
This spin is infuriating. Don’t pi-s on my leg and tell me it’s raining.
AI already took jobs. Just because they were taken first doesn’t mean AI didn’t replace them. In a way I guess it’s true because those who are still employed just have the additional burden of trying to get the job done - until AI can learn. But leadership will keep repeating that it’s not taking jobs. Maybe if we keep hearing it we will believe it?
And are we really bragging that 3 employees were “repurposed” so people start feeling safe?
Just stop. It’s insulting.

Here’s what you can start doing:
Be honest about what the vision is for this company and who has a true future with Canon. Give people the resources to develop marketable skills and move on if your long term plan does not include them. People have families to raise.

This is pretty crazy:

https://time.com/article/2026/03/11/anthropic-claude-disruptive-company-pentagon/

I'm sure there's a large amount of effort that goes into validation, but yikes. Meanwhile, AI from MS lags pretty far behind, so WF people are safe for a bit. Has anyone seen any actual AI agent automation being experimented with in any meaningful way at this point? If so, tell us what it's doing!

Here is the rundown:

Moving to a 'open contribution' model. Near 100% adoption of AI across the company.
Moving to an 'AI first' mindset. Ty Thorsen (SVP) announcing new 'AI transformation' team to force the use of AI across the board for all engineers.

Still have no growth strategy, just directions and empty promises, AI is taking over increasing burnout, you know what that means...

Moving fast fast fast and faster, more speed more acceleration more efficiency, aiming higher doing better bigger goals yap yap yap typical corporate jargin bla bla bla be excited about company growth (dont ask for more pay)

Karlheinz wurm could not pronounce 'cost', kept saying 'co-k'

Overwhelming negative feedback in the Q&A about RTO.
The anonymous questions are funnily brutal, the top voted one:
"As an office-first organization, shouldn’t all the leaders on this call be present at their main collaboration sites?"

Ty Thorson (SVP) """"answers"""" RTO concerns:
'While individuals might be more productive at home, teams are more productive working together in person" holy cope

"we are not the only ones doing this..." slap to the face

"Were leading this with a carrot, not with a stick. We are hoping the people will appreciate coming into the office for their team" trying to blame YOU for their bad decisions

Then they start blatently deleting all of the tough-to-answer RTO questions. Absolutely comical as more and more people ask "Why are you deleting RTO questions". So much for being a transparent company.

The rest of the questions are sidestepped and doesnt really answer anything, typical corporate vetted PR talk around the use of AI and how its going to change the world.
Constantly reciting the absolutes, like "all", "most of", "best", "must", "fully", "completely" etc.

People are asking some really brutal questions now, example:
"Someone deleted the question??? Please have all leaders show who is currently in the office if we are to believe you are leading by example"

They keep deleting questions rapid-fire.
Atmosphere gets tense.
No actual questions answered.

"I see concerns about topics like RTO, please message xyz if you feel this way"

"Will we compensate people for gas and time lost coming into the office? Thats not part of Cisco's policy its your responsability to take care of that" lol thanks lets create a problem and expect you to pay for it

The questions in Slido get REALLY heated now, moderation is working overtime deleting messages. More and more questions on compensation not increasing with inflation.

Out of all the leadership speakers, only 4 were in the office.
Everyone couldnt even come into the office to give a talk about returning to the office.
Great lead by example.

The rest of the meeting was a big nothingburger.

It cannot be any clearer how dogshit current leadership is.
If you havent quiet quit by now, this is your signal.

Did you use AI today? Did you automate your job so we can fire you?

IBM announced thousands of job cuts in late 2025. The company reduced its global workforce by about two percent. Despite these reductions, IBM plans to triple entry-level hiring in the US in 2026. New roles will focus on customer engagement and AI management. IBM's total workforce stood at 286,800 employees as of December 31, 2025.

Armonk, New York

https://www.thestreet.com/investing/stocks/ibm-employees

https://www.thestreet.com/investing/stocks/ibm-employees

Key Points
IBM employs hundreds of thousands of workers as of December 31, 2025.
The company operates in more than 170 countries and is headquartered in Armonk, New York.
IBM is cutting jobs while increasing entry-level hiring, especially in cloud and AI fields.

Looks like the US is heading into a collapse over the next decade with the relentless jobs being lost due to H1B visas Ofdshoeing and AI.

I wouldn’t be surprised at all if we see over 50% of white collar jobs completely gone over the next 5 years.

This is a real SHTF scenario and most people still have their heads up their as--s when it comes to this

Hearing confirmed from senior leadership that layoffs will be impacting the Database org over the coming weeks, ~2,900 roles in total.
It looks like this will roll out in phases, starting with US and then extending to EMEA.
From what's being speculated, areas most impacted include redundant roles (code fixing and ai replaceable tasks), parts of platform, as well as functions tied to performance and time-based metrics.

I see a lot of worry about ai here.

ai actually can do all things promised.

Verizon doesn't have the infrastructure, management, talent to do any of it.

Most of the requests are rejected because they are rule based problems not ai problems.

There's a fundamental lack of knowledge of what ai even is at Verizon. Whatever knowledge that exists at Verizon is at the highschool level and limited to basic prompting.

Let that sink in. The top leadership at Verizon has a grade school equivalent level with ai.

I've let my feelings known many times so I hope i get riffed because I am not learning anything here.

Tldr; anybody at vz saying anything about ai has no business doing so.

Rant over

The current AI push from senior management and the directors will bring this company to its knees. These people are too old and out of touch to understand what this technology actually is. It can be utilized in productive ways by individuals that have experience using LLMS and have a solid grasp of what LLMS are and what they are not. You cannot vibe code our systems. You need to hire and train journeymen so when the seasoned experts retire you have competent people to take the reigns that actually comprehend what they're looking at. Script-kiddies used to be a bad thing, now we're building on the backs of something much worse. For any manager reading this, when has copilot ever told you an idea you have is bad? Or even offered a different suggestion? It hasn't, because these models are trained to retain users. And the best way it does that is through sycophantic praise. I thought we had intelligent people at least making decisions for us. After seeing that AI ignite training I now understand that we are in for a very tumultuous time ahead. For any coder on here, keep learning and cutting your teeth on the stack. You will be needed once our leaders destroy this company. And for the process and maintenance techs, don't let them make you feel inferior or easily replaceable. These systems are powerful but we need the creativity and problem solving of you to make this company succeed. My heart weeps for any young person getting into what used to be a very presitigious career path. Please do better for the sake of the families that GF keeps fed.

Just look at Amazon. Their engineers are losing it because AI code is wrecking systems.

I know Jeff was swinging the axe yesterday and some poor 400 souls got hit sadly. The real question on my mind is did he completely obliterate the Data&AI group or are they still around. I know a director was let go in January/February. I'm just curious if he managed to plug the Data&AI money hole for good...

https://share.google/yCnfFlv0cN1lZFXeM

Dell only cares about storage followed by AI servers, nothing else matters. The traditional server business has almost been destroyed and I am guessing that it will soon lose its number one standing in the industry. I am certain that Dell does not care and the people associated to these products will eventually be let go. SAD!!!

DT is funneling free cash flow to build their AI center with Nvidia. Watch for bigger changes by Q3, cuz there's not much more cuts to be made at this point.

Well guys, should we consider unionizing now or wait until they either outsource all of our jobs to India or replace us with AI

"Join us for a live session to learn about professional production-grade software development via vibe coding."

Yes OTEX "leadership" really are that stupid.

They think Vibe coding with cheap replacements in India that do not understand the products will work.

What could possibly go wrong?

People that were laid off were lucky. They are no longer subjected to nonsense like this.

Longtime KTLA reporter Ellina Abovian was fired last month. She stated local TV news must adapt its storytelling. The industry faces consolidation and cost cutting. Broadcasters like Nexstar are restructuring operations. They invest in AI due to declining streaming revenue.

https://letsdatascience.com/news/local-tv-industry-faces-consolidation-and-layoffs-d8bccc80

Forced Ai training. And soon to be forced to use Ai. While my director and mangers openly joke and laugh about how Ai is so great and will eventually take will our jobs. Great morale boost while they actively talk about wanting to boost morale.

I have never been more energized and excited to be a Vteamer than this week with the rollout of AI Unlocked - at scale! Here’s what I know to be true. Our leaders are building a future proof workforce and we can trust them to deliver as they always do! I deeply believe the bullet points and the post it notes. Our credo and culture OS are world class art of the possible.

There is no need to beat around the bush.

Everyone know FISERV CIO has initiative to move all jobs to INDIA.

The company is on a DOWNWARD SPIRAL for a LONG TIME.

It does not INNOVATE.

That is why we want AI, because there are already MINIMAL STANDARDS.

So if you don't like it? Find a NEW JOB.

Otherwise, It's NOT WORTH IT.

Or else stay at Fiserv and have your job OUTSOURCED.

If not deal then deal with LOW QUALITY,

And MORE AI,

And more OUTSOURCING,

And more being TREATED LIKE A CHILD.

Its part of the DOWNWARD SPIRAL.

Stephen Miller is ON THE SIDE OF PROFIT, NOT YOURS.

Understand?

I’m so frustrated. I feel like no one is using critical thinking anymore. Everyone’s in a race to automate their work and use co pilot to do their jobs but they aren’t taking the time to validate if any of it makes sense. I’ve found so many mistakes due to automation. No one is challenging or validating data anymore. If it looks fine it must be right. No….. This creates unnecessary fire drills which leads to the blame game.

Co pilot and automation should never replace critical thinking and quality control.

Higher pay?
Remote?
not AI first?
not using enough AI(Copilot)

Watch for more RAs in Consulting very soon. . .

https://www.businessinsider.com/consulting-management-ai-agents-future-ibm-2026-3

By: Lakshmi Varanasi
Mar 23, 2026, 4:01 AM CT

• IBM's consulting arm monitors the work of AI agents using a real-time dashboard.
• IBM says AI agents have sped up security investigations, cutting task time from 45 to a few minutes.
• IBM Consulting's revenue reached $21 billion in 2025, driven by demand for AI solutions.

At IBM's consulting arm, the future isn't a slide deck or a strategy memo — it's a live dashboard where humans monitor the work of AI agents in real time.

Earlier this month, Mohamad Ali, senior vice president of IBM Consulting, walked Business Insider through the dashboard that the company both uses internally and recently released to clients.

"Every hour I can see what's going on with all the humans associated with digital workers," and vice versa, he said. "That is the new consulting model going forward."

The dashboard is known internally as "Consulting Advantage." The company unveiled it in 2024 to help its own consultants build and manage teams of AI agents. This January, it unveiled "Enterprise Advantage," a similar version of the platform for clients that allows them to build and manage AI agents at scale.

In recent years, the firm has made itself the testing ground for building and deploying digital workers as it prepares clients for a future defined by AI. Ali said the firm has digital staff working side by side with humans on more than 150 client engagements.

Take the example of a typical security operations center, he said. When an alert comes in, a human investigator would normally spend about 45 minutes combing through logs to figure out what went wrong and what to do next. At IBM, he said, that process is increasingly handled by AI.

Digital workers first "generate an investigation plan." Then they execute it in real time. Multiple agents tackle different parts of the problem simultaneously, passing tasks back and forth, he said. Then they run a risk analysis and produce a report. The process now takes just a couple of minutes. The findings are then passed back to a human — with key actions highlighted — and the human verifies it.

In January alone, IBM used this approach to complete 52,000 investigations, Ali said.

IBM has evolved dramatically from its early days as a maker of mainframe computers into a key player in the AI bo-m. The company said its generative AI department was valued at $12.5 billion during its fourth-quarter earnings call.

Its consulting department, especially, has seen an uptick due to demand for generative AI and services that help clients implement it. Consulting revenue for 2025 came in at over $21 billion, up from about $20.7 billion in 2024.

IBM Consulting has been around for decades. The company acquired PwC's consulting arm in 2002. PwC would later rebuild its consulting business after a five-year noncompete clause expired.

IBM Consulting now employs about 150,000 employees and says its work overlaps with the Big Four and more technology-focused firms like Accenture.

"We don't do, like, what markets you should be in," Ali said. "We do strategy around 'how do you take your corporate strategy and implement it?'"

And right now, he said, there's a big question in corporate strategy: How do you prepare for a world where humans work alongside AI agents?

Welcome BNYs new Agentic Platform! Here you get to help create your very own AI employee that will eventually take your job!

This place is a joke.

https://www.businessinsider.com/bny-managers-teams-humans-agentic-ai-digital-employees-robin-vince-2026-3

He’s so obsessed, and wasting millions

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi offered a stark view on AI's impact. He stated many executives privately admit AI will displace millions of jobs. Khosrowshahi estimates AI could replace 70-80% of human work. He acknowledged autonomous vehicles will eventually fulfill most Uber trips. This candid assessment contrasts with public statements from other tech leaders.

https://moneywise.com/news/top-stories/dara-khosrowshahi-uber-ceo-says-execs-are-lying-about-ai

….well here is my new AI skills showcasing a tale around the Humana experience in the last 8 months.

Once upon a time, in a kingdom not marked on any map, there stood a towering castle called Evergain. From the outside, its golden spires gleamed with promise, and travelers spoke in hushed admiration of the opportunities said to lie within its walls. But those who worked inside knew a different story.

The ruler of Evergain was a calculating figure known only as the Steward. Cloaked in polished words and grand proclamations, the Steward often spoke of loyalty, fairness, and shared success. Each year, the Steward would gather the castle’s workers—scribes, builders, planners, and keepers—and speak of how deeply their contributions were valued.

One winter, as frost clung to the castle windows, the Steward announced a grand offering: an Early Departure Pact. Those who accepted it would be rewarded with generous coin and the chance to leave their duties behind with dignity. The hall buzzed with cautious excitement. Many who had long served the castle saw this as a rare and welcome gift.

But there was a catch.

The Steward declared that certain roles—those deemed “critical to the kingdom’s future”—were forbidden from accepting the pact. These workers, who often carried the heaviest burdens, were told they were too important to leave. While others were given a choice, they were bound more tightly than ever.

Still, many accepted the offer and departed with relief. Yet not long after the farewell feasts had ended, something strange began to happen. New faces appeared in the castle—fresh recruits filling the very roles that had just been vacated. Whispers spread through the corridors: If the roles could be filled so quickly, were they ever truly meant to disappear?

Meanwhile, those labeled “critical” found their situation growing heavier. Despite their increased workload and unwavering service, no additional coin was granted to them when the time for raises came. The Steward praised their importance in speeches, yet their purses remained unchanged.

Then came the Festival of Rewards, when bonuses were distributed based on the kingdom’s success. In years past, this had been a time of celebration. But now, the coins handed out were fewer than expected. The Steward explained that the kingdom’s fortunes were tied together—that the performance of all determined the reward of each. And so, even those who had labored tirelessly received less than they had earned.

The workers began to see the pattern clearly.

Those who could leave were encouraged to go—but then replaced.
Those who could not leave were praised—but not rewarded.
And all were told the system was fair—while feeling, deep down, that it was not.

Among them was a quiet group who began to speak—not loudly, but persistently. They did not shout or rebel. Instead, they shared truths, compared stories, and held onto a simple idea: that words alone were not enough, and that fairness must be shown through action.

Over time, their voices grew stronger—not through force, but through clarity.

And though the Steward still ruled from the high tower, something had shifted in Evergain. The illusion had cracked. The workers no longer mistook polished promises for justice, nor praise for fairness.

And as in all good fairy tales, that was the beginning of change.

Upload the annual budget statement to Claude and ask it to analyze the document for cost‑reduction opportunities. Most expenses come from WIM, and there appears to be a potential savings of $800M by lowering those costs.

Scrutinize, double scrutinize and triple scrutinize each and every engineer, especially the dead wood at Grade 10 and above. Most of them are needless overheads and only serve to drag the company down.

This is the ERA of AI assisted development. Leverage AI and eliminate DEAD WOOD.

From my LinkedIn feed:

I used Claude Code to create a new HDL and vibe coded a compiler in a couple of weeks of my spare time. (Yeah very little left after a busy day at work ;-) ) Now I am very certain say 80% likelyhood we won’t need half of design or verification engineers in max two years from now. I think we’re going back to a full stack frontend engineer model again. For a medium complexity accelerator chip, you need 1 architect, <10 AI native frontend engineers (doing design, verification, synthesis, timing,) 2 verification/emulation specialists for integration testing. I don’t know enough physical design to predict there.

my opinion, complete waste of time. Department trying to justify their wasted "AI" investment.

Is Powerflex only place like this or its across whole ISG or Dell?

In recent weeks its like AI and nothing else matters.. each meeting each demo each talk is always AI.. half of people dont even know what to do.. so they ask AI, then send AI responses to other in slack/jira. slop times.

I love when folks on demo are more focused to say how windsurf or other LLM tool help them or did all VS why and what they actually did.

Its like AI psychosis.

Verizon has a long history of successful execution on transformative and bold initiatives at scale. From go90, aol, yahoo, plus play, hum, blue jeans, finance transformation, Verizon global services, return to office, project 626 for customer service, and more - we have a record we can be proud of. Our leaders are experts in organizing teams in ways that result in role clarity, expertise, and results. This winning culture will do the same for our transformative AI initiatives. I have zero doubt how this will play out. Let’s go team!

Snowflake confirmed "targeted" staff cuts. These adjustments align teams with the company's long-term strategy. The cuts specifically affected its technical writing and documentation team. Snowflake aims for operational efficiency and more AI products. Other tech companies also made layoffs due to AI focus.

https://www.businessinsider.com/snowflake-layoffs-strategy-ai-growth-2026-3

Did anyone heard anything? This quarter seems like they are not going to have any profits or acquire any major customers. Bonuses will be sh-t and management will blame AI while promoting AI.

Pega is AI to track your work and mouse movements. It's not about efficiency or work processes. Sitting in a meeting, actually paying attention and not multitasking. Not moving your mouse will lower your Pega. No joke, you don't meet whatever number they want and you will be out .

You know, once we're all replaced by AI and unemployed?

L1 and L2 hiring freeze while ATS and other organizations assess the impact of AI and determine why we have 40,000 workers more than Verizon. In my opinion, the big one is coming this summer.