Post #2548036

2026-05-14 20:44 UTC

“The story is that a specific kind of executive, the one who needs a progressive headline every quarter, has been running an uncontrolled experiment on your workforce. The data on that experiment is now in, and it is not flattering.” This is good: https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2026/05/14/the-ai-layoff-bill-is-coming-due-and-ctos-are-going-to-pay-it-twice/

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@pointlessone@status.pointless.one 2026-05-15 07:09

@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com @davetron5000@ruby.social The takeaway is not that only 5% of AI initiatives bring any kind of profit but to price in the rehiring. 🤦

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@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com 2026-05-14 20:44

(via @Wilto@front-end.social)

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@mrkeen@mastodon.social 2026-05-15 00:48

@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com > Sarah Choudhary is CEO of ICE Innovations and executive advisor with expertise on quantum AI There's the marker to stop reading.

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@kimcrawley@zeroes.ca 2026-05-15 02:23

@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com No, it's not. The author says "I'm not anti-AI!" 🫠🫠🫠🫠

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@netzhexe@chaos.social 2026-05-15 06:37

@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com it IS good. Quote that just made me go❗️: Two out of three chief executives are buying a tool they cannot evaluate, cutting staff on capability claims they cannot verify and calling the result a strategy. On a conference stage, this is called vision. On a balance sheet, it is called an unfunded liability.

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@dch@bsd.network 2026-05-15 07:42

@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com the best part about this is that tita coming from somebody who “ships AI every day”. If even the AI Accelerators can’t do it then the 95% who can’t should be enough to give the IPO-driven insanity bubble an abrupt deflation.

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@stepheneb@ruby.social 2026-05-15 13:45

@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com “Gartner projects that 50% of companies that attributed headcount cuts to AI will rehire for similar functions by 2027. Forrester found that over half of companies that cut staff for AI already regret the move. A Careerminds survey went further. One in three employers spent more on restaffing than they saved from the original layoffs. That is not efficiency. That is a wire transfer with extra steps.”

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@qhstone@mstdn.social 2026-05-17 17:29

@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com And this is even before the bubble bursts.

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