What IBM Said About 2026 Layoffs and What's Happening in Practice
In recent hours someone explained what happened to him/her:
That one comment is believable because we saw stories like these many times before. Perhaps IBM assumes it can hire people who are not fluent but are "AI fluent" and then use chatbots to bridge the gap, e.g. with "vibe coding" and slop for E-mail. If it is a race to the bottom (lower salaries), then it'll leave IBM at the very bottom, in due course (customers will notice something profound has changed).
And speaking of "AI fluent" (as in, incapable of doing things like coding and writing, using plagiarism blenders instead), take a load of this quote from IBM itself:
It really is there in the Q4-2025 Earnings Call:
