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Is it <waves hands towards the sky> AI? or is it years of overhiring? There was a great article I found on HN recently about how the recent layoffs in big tech
by ryaniscool 1y ago
Is it <waves hands towards the sky> AI? or is it years of overhiring?
There was a great article I found on HN recently about how the recent layoffs in big tech are actually the result of overhiring for years in a talent arms race.
Like, is AI now doing the former work of 25,000 people at Microsoft? Probably not.
- pm90 1y agoAlmost certainly not AI, just more users going from hosted windows solutions to azure + office upsell (eg with Teams). Microsoft pretty much dominates the non Apple Desktop ecosystem and is used heavily by healthcare, defense and manufacturing industries.