Block lays off nearly half its staff because of AI

I could not imagine being a college graduate right now just trying to look for a job in tech. A discussion of whether this was “right” or “wrong” is honestly uninteresting, but figuring out how to survive when CEOs do stuff like this continues to take up space in my mind.

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Mine too. I also wonder how long this kind of aggressive cutting in favor of AI can hold out before expectation runs up against reality, and it turns out the machines don’t do what they’re supposed to. Will companies just…muddle on with slop? Or will they rehire and pull back on generative solutions?

I know I’m well into the “what if” territory.
Are we near limits of computer automation in the tech worlds current view? I don’t see where tech rehires to the 2022-2024 era, even if they shed the generative solutions, who would spend that on human salaries when that is what they despise so much?

Who makes the next level of automation if not generative solutions?