This was always about destroying tech worker’s leverage to demand a decent quality of life in exchange for their work, never about “intelligence” of any kind, and the only thing that could have stopped it was unionization.

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    20 hours ago

    I’ve long said the AI thing is a media distraction. The trend of performing mass layoffs while still actively recruiting started at least a decade before ChatGPT, and ramped up during the pandemic.