IBM Misleads and Gaslights Investors With Slop Sold as "AI" (the Business is Waning, Mass Layoffs Continue)
"Intelligent" (or "Super-intelligent") is the new "smart". They call everything new "artificial intelligence" instead of "smart", even if it's neither new nor really AI (or if they just pepper it with "AI" like IBM needlessly peppered things with "blockchains" half a decade ago). Throw in some more buzzwords/adjectives like "advanced", "agentic", "generative" "era" and "revolution"... even "arms race" or "existential crisis".
People who do this are dishonest. They should not be put in charge.
Sometimes we look at thelayoff.com and see people there repeating our arguments (or words) almost verbatim. Which means they read us. Sometimes they link to us or to sites that we link to. That's particularly true when it comes to IBM-centric discussions at thelayoff.com.
IBM is basically a dying company, denying the obvious and hiding facts from shareholders. Many people are leaving and there are NDAs being signed; so good luck figuring out what really happened!
Here's another departure, as posted to Microsoft social control media early on a Sunday (in the US):
We see these all day long, with some of them specifying a department (not just departure) or company, e.g. Red Hat.
In recent hours people began discussing (again) the lies IBM told Wall Street last week:
Notice the latest comment: "This piece of garbage reminds me of another when IBM was beating the drums of "Cloud computing" and all the extraordinary success achieved by IBM in that space. I was part of an organization within IBM, where I saw sales no related to "Cloud" being labelled "Cloud wins". IBM cabal of Indians is cooking the books using the same tactics. They are replacing the word "Cloud" with "AI". I do not believe, Among IBM technical leader, there is one person smart enough to tackle AI or perform any high quality research in that space. Most of them are re--rded id1ots good to make charts and spew nonsense."
Indeed, this is what Microsoft does as well (more so than other GAFAM companies). They just reclassify things; be it "cloud", then "AI", then whatever...
This gives a false impression or a mere illusion of "growth". At IBM, people must resort to cheating to get ahead:
These comments from recent hours (based on recent history) show how bad the work culture or etiquette became there.
Remember what happened to Novell with Ron Hovsepian* (former IBMer who became Novell's last CEO, as he wrecked the company with Microsoft). 20 years ago he took advice from Microsoft moles like Miguel de Icaza and basically killed Novell.
"Every time a company hires an IBM Executive you should be really worried," someone said some hours ago, "as that person will bring and execute the IBM playbook… cut costs, layoffs, etc… Good luck."
Su (at AMD) is an exception, not the norm/standard.
IBM does not employ managers who excel at anything, except perhaps defrauding others and kicking the can down the road. █
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* Being from a patent maximalist/zealot/bully (IBM), he overvalued Novell's software patents and made an alliance with Steve Ballmer based on patents. We wrote about software patents earlier today in relation to Mexico, noting that "USMCA (or NAFTA) does this" to Mexico. "The USMCA and NAFTA trade agreements do this," someone said or rephrased this. They have expanded the scope of such patents through globalism or a form of "soft power" (corporate) imperialism. And "providing context helps," we got told, as "short [articles] can often be too short" and "many don't even think about patents and thus cannot know that both NAFTA and the USMCA were both about patents, including the rightfully maligned software patents..."
Miguel de Icaza came from Mexico and destroyed Novell using the horrible patent deal with Microsoft. This horrible deal is what gave birth to this site in 2006.