IBM - Like Microsoft - is a Dying Company and Perishing Brand ("AI" is a Lie and Decoy)
"Arvind [IBM CEO] is cutting costs (layoffs, PIPs, forced RTO, etc...) like crazy. IBM offices are closing all over the place in the US." -10 hours ago
"Microsoft employees aren’t getting much time to take a breath between layoff rounds as thousands could be let go in early July," says a Bill Epsteingate-funded site today ("Reports of coming layoffs swirl at Microsoft as workers worry they’re next").
Quoting further (from a pro-Microsoft publisher): "Bloomberg News reported last week that Microsoft was planning another round, aimed at thousands of people with a heavy emphasis on sales and marketing roles. The outlet reported Tuesday that more cuts were coming for Microsoft’s gaming division, doubling down on a report from The Verge in early June that gaming layoffs were looming around the end of the fiscal year on June 30."
Just like the last time, it's vastly bigger than they disclose. The "unsaid" part is, many of those "Redmond-based" and "based in Washington" staff that the above article alludes to are not Americans but foreign workers on visas. Microsoft already cheapened (and overworked to death) its workforce as much as it could. It wasn't enough. So now it's cutting... and cutting... and cutting. At one point it'll simply employ people with no coding experience and call that "AI" (to make excuses for poor code quality). The same has been happening at IBM. Watch IBM's CEO kowtowing to dictators who can bail him out:
Bow to your masters. This video is just over a month old.
Oil, not science.
Two weeks ago someone wrote, regarding Microsoft: "I'm noticing more and more that people, especially young developers, are not testing their code properly. They'll run code quality tools and use that to say their code is good quality. They rely on unit tests instead of actually testing their code by hand or writing full functional test cases."
"It’s AI," someone responded 3 hours ago, "you can’t fire it."
They lie about it being "AI" [1, 2]. It's just a way to tell investors it's not the business that's failing but rather it's "AI" - whatever that is! - succeeding. █
Old (January): No, Microsoft Does Not Invest $80B in Hey Hi (AI), It's Just Full of BS, Lies, and Over $80B in Debt