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The Dumbest Move in Tech Right Now: Laying Off Developers Because of AI (ppaolo.substack.com)
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[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

The problem is that the AI won't take a bribe to issue a return to office mandate to prop up their real estate holdings.

But we can patch that in version 2, I guess?