[TheVerge] Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella seeks to reassure Microsoft employees in layoffs memo // Cements that A.I is the future

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adamsapple said:
Sad but true.

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Or we can ban AI and kill the people who made it and execute anyone who tries to bring it back

We don't need to live at the whims of the industrial/technological society like this. It's insane that some transhumanist psycho can come up with this and all of the sudden we need to rearrange our entire lives with no say in the matter. This is the way we've all been living for 200 years but take a step back and realize the lunacy and anti-human nature of it all.
 
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I'm gonna try translating that into a human language instead of corporate speak: AI is the future and we intend to replace more of your job with AI over the next few years, better update your resume and find another job
 
I'm not a corporate shell but from a tech/entrepreneur/real estate guy's pov like me, AI changes how people perceive earning money in a positive way.
 
Lot of naive takes in this thread. I work at a fortune 500 tech company and the reality is these companies will either figure out how to leverage AI to increase efficiency/reduce costs or they will get left behind in irrelevance. Understanding the scope of AI's impact on our workflows and methodologies is still in its nascent stages, but it's extremely obvious to anyone with a brain how important it's going to be. It's not about AI replacing engineers, it really isn't. But it is definitely about AI allowing one tomorrow-engineer to do the job of what three today-engineers can do. This is the reality of the business landscape, and whining about AI or complaining about greedy execs and all their profits isn't going to change a thing.

Companies which adapt and figure out how to leverage this most effectively will get ahead, period.
 
As I've been saying for years.
Nutella is the source of everything that is happening at Microsoft.
He wants to fire everyone and move the company to India to work exclusively on AI.
He's a zealot with a god complex.
 
intbal said:
As I've been saying for years.
Nutella is the source of everything that is happening at Microsoft.
He wants to fire everyone and move the company to India to work exclusively on AI.
He's a zealot with a god complex.
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Take your words back for dare saying Nutella when that is a beautiful thing and shouldn't be ascoiated with that son of a bitch. Take it back now or I will fight you.
 
Security is a top priority for us! Just not yours. We are more successful than ever and our talent that may be laid off at an uncertain future time is being recognized!
 
bigedole said:
Lot of naive takes in this thread. I work at a fortune 500 tech company and the reality is these companies will either figure out how to leverage AI to increase efficiency/reduce costs or they will get left behind in irrelevance. Understanding the scope of AI's impact on our workflows and methodologies is still in its nascent stages, but it's extremely obvious to anyone with a brain how important it's going to be. It's not about AI replacing engineers, it really isn't. But it is definitely about AI allowing one tomorrow-engineer to do the job of what three today-engineers can do. This is the reality of the business landscape, and whining about AI or complaining about greedy execs and all their profits isn't going to change a thing.

Companies which adapt and figure out how to leverage this most effectively will get ahead, period.
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if AI is so valuable to these companies then they should be forced to pay the full salary of anyone they lay off for 5 years.

Economy works for the people not the other way around. I'm just tired of this shit. of course simultaneously Nadella applies for 10,000 H1Bs so he is largely full of shit.
 
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AI is a double edged sword for me. Yes, companies can save money by employing less staff, but in the long run that's less people being paid (at least a salary that suits their expertise) to buy their products.
 
diffusionx said:
if AI is so valuable to these companies then they should be forced to pay the full salary of anyone they lay off for 5 years.

Economy works for the people not the other way around. I'm just tired of this shit. of course simultaneously Nadella applies for 10,000 H1Bs so he is largely full of shit.
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Like I said, just naive. Complex technological products don't just show up out of nowhere. They are extremely difficult to produce and cost tons and tons of money to do so. The bottom line is if American companies don't figure out how to leverage AI to reduce their cost basis and/or improve their products, Chinese companies will and we will continue to fall (further?) behind.

I do disagree pretty heavily with how the H1B system is used, but again, some more insight I can personally offer is that at least at my company there is a very strong push to hire non-H1B candidates, but for every open position we have at least 90% of the qualified candidates (skews more heavily among recent college grads) are from India or China. I am genuinely not trying to imply something or start some culture war BS when I say that American RCGs for some reason just do not show the same drive/work ethic to succeed. 70-80% of all fulltime grad students in the US (for engineering majors) are foreign students, why is that?
Topher said:
Uh yeah....that's called "replacing engineers" my man
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Some companies will reduce headcount as a result, sure. My company already has all of us stretched thin across many projects, and this push towards AI is to allow us to support the growing portfolio of products in a sustainable way. This is reality. Making complex, high quality products for as cheap as possible. If you allow another company to do a same/similar job as yours but for half the cost because they leveraged AI and yours didn't then your company won't exist for much longer.
 
bigedole said:
Like I said, just naive. Complex technological products don't just show up out of nowhere. They are extremely difficult to produce and cost tons and tons of money to do so. The bottom line is if American companies don't figure out how to leverage AI to reduce their cost basis and/or improve their products, Chinese companies will and we will continue to fall (further?) behind.

I do disagree pretty heavily with how the H1B system is used, but again, some more insight I can personally offer is that at least at my company there is a very strong push to hire non-H1B candidates, but for every open position we have at least 90% of the qualified candidates (skews more heavily among recent college grads) are from India or China. I am genuinely not trying to imply something or start some culture war BS when I say that American RCGs for some reason just do not show the same drive/work ethic to succeed. 70-80% of all fulltime grad students in the US (for engineering majors) are foreign students, why is that?

Some companies will reduce headcount as a result, sure. My company already has all of us stretched thin across many projects, and this push towards AI is to allow us to support the growing portfolio of products in a sustainable way. This is reality. Making complex, high quality products for as cheap as possible. If you allow another company to do a same/similar job as yours but for half the cost because they leveraged AI and yours didn't then your company won't exist for much longer.
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The fact that they've prioritised in reducing your headcount before your AI sustainability solution is even fit for purpose in the first place should already tell you that yes, the point is to indeed, replace engineers.
 
bigedole said:
Like I said, just naive. Complex technological products don't just show up out of nowhere. They are extremely difficult to produce and cost tons and tons of money to do so. The bottom line is if American companies don't figure out how to leverage AI to reduce their cost basis and/or improve their products, Chinese companies will and we will continue to fall (further?) behind.

I do disagree pretty heavily with how the H1B system is used, but again, some more insight I can personally offer is that at least at my company there is a very strong push to hire non-H1B candidates, but for every open position we have at least 90% of the qualified candidates (skews more heavily among recent college grads) are from India or China. I am genuinely not trying to imply something or start some culture war BS when I say that American RCGs for some reason just do not show the same drive/work ethic to succeed. 70-80% of all fulltime grad students in the US (for engineering majors) are foreign students, why is that?

Some companies will reduce headcount as a result, sure. My company already has all of us stretched thin across many projects, and this push towards AI is to allow us to support the growing portfolio of products in a sustainable way. This is reality. Making complex, high quality products for as cheap as possible. If you allow another company to do a same/similar job as yours but for half the cost because they leveraged AI and yours didn't then your company won't exist for much longer.
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You are a bootlicking shill and the company will throw you out the nanosecond it feels like it and nobody will care.

I am not saying this to be mean although it may sound this way. You are not the company and you are not AI. You're a person who does your job honestly and should be afforded some basic measure of respect, and you are not in this economy or in this country. You need to stop looking at it from the perspective of the poor put upon company and look at it from the perspective of a person who goes in and does their job fair and square. If the "system" we live under produces insanity like you describe then the system needs to change.

The Chinese companies you speak of, at the very least they work to benefit the Chinese people, by force if need be.
 
bigedole said:
Some companies will reduce headcount as a result, sure. My company already has all of us stretched thin across many projects, and this push towards AI is to allow us to support the growing portfolio of products in a sustainable way. This is reality. Making complex, high quality products for as cheap as possible. If you allow another company to do a same/similar job as yours but for half the cost because they leveraged AI and yours didn't then your company won't exist for much longer.
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Really shouldn't call others "naive" while downplaying folks getting fired in favor of AI. That's what is happening here. That's the "reality". It's naive to pretend it isn't.

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SomeNorseGuy said:
This is the enigma of success in an industry that has no franchise value. Progress isn't linear. It's dynamic, sometimes dissonant, and always demanding. But it's also a new opportunity for us to shape, lead through, and have greater impact than ever before.
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*ChatGpt, can you translate this corporate bullshit and give us strait?

*Sure, here's what this statement actually meant to say:
We achieved great success thanks to the hard work and talent of our first employees. However, since they also were the most well paid, we got rid of them as soon as we could to become more profitable. Now we don't have anybody that knows how to make good products anymore, so our only option to remain profitable is chasing fads to acquire capital and fire everyone to cut costs.
 



Phil Spencer:
"Looking forward, there is an interesting story for us of introducing Xbox franchises to players on other platforms to get them more interested in Xbox. We think there's a good brand value for Xbox there."

"You're going to see more of our games on more platforms, and we just see that as a benefit to the franchises that we're building… players love to be able to play."

One of the reasons for this decision is to grow the Microsoft Gaming franchises… in the next 5–10 years, console-exclusive games will be a smaller part of the gaming industry."

MS spent $100B on something the big boss doesn't give a flying fuck about... let that sink in.


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👆The biggest cuck in all the gaming industry
 
ChorizoPicozo said:



Phil Spencer:
"Looking forward, there is an interesting story for us of introducing Xbox franchises to players on other platforms to get them more interested in Xbox. We think there's a good brand value for Xbox there."

"You're going to see more of our games on more platforms, and we just see that as a benefit to the franchises that we're building… players love to be able to play."

One of the reasons for this decision is to grow the Microsoft Gaming franchises… in the next 5–10 years, console-exclusive games will be a smaller part of the gaming industry."

MS spent $100B on something the big boss doesn't give a flying fuck about... let that sink in.


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Phil has so much fucking money this man is living the dream. He is even doing that ozpempic while doing blow and top 10/10 fun times. What a fucking guy.
 
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