@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social From my observations many (but of course not all) of the reductions have in fact very little to do with AI. It's just a convenient scapegoat, or it comes later, brought by whoever is left and trying to survive with same workload handled by a smaller team. Saying you're successful deploying AI and need less people as a result looks better than admitting overinvestments. Employees also often don't understand market conditions changing and their division numbers no longer adding up when the company as a whole has resources to invest into AI.