Cisco revealed plans to slash its headcount by 5% — roughly 4,250 employees across the tech behemoth’s global workforce — as it steps up its focus on artificial intelligence. San …

Cisco to lay off more than 4,000 employees to focus on artificial intelligence::Cisco revealed plans to slash its headcount by 5% on Wednesday, which will affect roughly 4,250 employees across the tech behemoth’s global workforce.

  • Asafum@feddit.nlEnglish
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    10 months ago

    So where are the 300,000+ AI computer companies that all these tech workers across the whole sector will so easily just migrate to?

    The argument is always “the new scary tool will just come with its own needs that need to be serviced which is where the displaced workers will go.”

    Yeah… IDK about that. The coal miners were supposed to be retraining to be programmers, we just decapitated that idea, so now what?

    I never had much of a great view of the future, but it only seems to be getting worse…