IBM is a Dying Company, Nowadays It Kills Red Hat With Slop
Minutes ago (when your last day is a national holiday in IBM's country):
Earlier this week:
After the Oracle layoffs we are expected to see a "bloodbath" at IBM, including Red Hat (many of the latter's staff are now "IBM"; they got bluewashed entirely, some as recently as this year and this week). Judging by these comments about Red Hat replacing people with slop (a worrisome trend dictated by IBM to fool shareholders), things are looking bad for Red Hat. The author of this exclusive report correctly described what Red Hat's 'pivot to slop' represents:
You really would think that, wouldn't you?
It is just unaccountable to me how anyone can be deranged enough to think this is a desirable outcome. But then I am not a manager. I have fallen foul of RH [Red Hat] management before.
One of the guiding principles I have for life since I reached middle age is this:
The vast majority of adult humans are just bluffing it. They are winging it, improvising their way through life and hoping nobody notices and calls them on it.
Some do have a bit of a clue what they are doing and do make serious efforts to _understand_ how things work and why. They do their best and their best is actually quite good much of the time.
Most just keep faking and praying nobody notices. Most managers but also most workers. They don't really understand anything much but so long as they keep going through the motions someone keeps paying them and so they keep making it up. They faked it, they made it, and so now they have to keep faking it.
When you don't really understand anything much about your world, then a mindless bot that understands nothing at all but spews out endless slop as if it does and it looks about right and sounds about right and sort of fits and kind of sort of works ish if you squint, then that is good enough.
Elon "Dilbert Stark" Musk had about 2 good original ideas ever -- "let's land rockets and fly them again," and "let's make actual desirable electric cars people would choose over ICE cars". This has made him close to a trillionaire although he's had no good ones since, and few if any before.
He bought Twitter because someone called him on a joke post and he couldn't escape. He laid off 80% of the staff. Lots of incomprehending pundits said it would now definitely fail and you couldn't just fire 3/4 of a company and keep it running.
Yeah you can. It worked. It still works.
Way more than 3/4 of the people in a typical organisation are those incomprehending bluffers who don't really know what they are doing but are just winging it and improvising and hoping.
They are incompetent by a harsh definition but they play pretend well enough that it mostly works and they survive.
Well, now, incompetent managers have an excuse: they can fire all the other incompetents who were just pretending and replace them with bots who just pretend. It will stumble on for a while.
Then a massive collapse will occur and all the fakers and the entire companies and economies will collapse.
With any luck, we'll survive and there won't be a war.
The magic bullshitter bots' real prices will be exposed, as _at least_ an order of magnitude more than they cost now, but I suspect that in fact 2-3 and maybe even 4 orders. Once they are seen to be just pretend, don't work, and are also REALLY FSCKING EXPENSIVE for everyone concerned, the next AI winter will begin and all these wretched chancers will end up out of work, I hope forever. A few deserve to rot in jail for life.
That's Liam. I spoke to him some months ago and some time soon we'll cite his analysis of slop, which I put in High Court filings.
Someone else there points out the legal risk:
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/30/sap_reltio/
(1) "Big Data" at RedHat
(2) Who knows if there's any copyright material in the "big data"....
(3) And of course the last people to find out.....are the copyright holders themselves.
Rinse and repeat elsewhere....Google, Meta, Amazon, ORACLE, Microsoft, OpenAI......
Slurp.....slurp....slurp........
"Not here"......or......."fair use"................
Sigh!
Red Hat is doomed. IBM is deprecating Red Hat and turning everything into slop (to the extent it believes this can work; it won't work!).
The author suggests that people brush up their Debian skills/experience, but readers push back (in many comments) by saying systemd has already infected Debian, whose "Core" is managed by "Microsoft Pranksters". █