AI bet goes awry: Oracle fires 21,000 employees | The Jerusalem Post
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Oracle laid off ~13% of its staff to fund a $300B computing deal with OpenAI. Now, a credit downgrade and $7B in required power grid guarantees put the massive project in jeopardy.
  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    70·
    2 months ago

    Start forcing users to use AI
    lose staff
    Fire staff so that AI can take over
    lose staff
    Find out AI can’t replace the users, get devalued
    lose staff

    seems pretty toxic

    • Cheebus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      2 months ago

      My last day at a dumpster fire AI slop company is next week, and I can’t wait.

        • Cheebus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          Morally I feel I made the right decision, financially probably not but I’ll choose morals over cash any day.

          Won’t know if I’ll stay in IT yet for a few months at this new job, or if I need to pivot harder