Tesla told employees last month it would impose a $200 per week limit for staff’s AI spending beginning July 6, according to an internal memo, a sign that even companies committed to using the technology to transform their operations and products are having to watch their costs. Over the past ...
Some businesses already have. Take Ford for example.
Edit: I guess they’re not being hired back because they’re “cheaper”, but rather because AI couldn’t effectively do their job. I suppose that turns out to be cheaper in the long run.
I think Ford and the rest are using AI as an excuse to do a rank and yank - everybody is let go, then some are invited back. This isn’t anything new - Florida Power and Light (which is about 1/10th the size of Ford in terms of engineers) did this “fire everybody and make them reapply for jobs” thing back in the early 1990s. It’s a way of “cleaning house” without singling out the bad apples.