Hundreds of millions already spent on AI with no benefits so far. None
1400 laid off does not balance the ai debt.
Shipped jobs to ITC and vendors who do absolutely nothing and are robbing us with inflated contracts that leadership is clueless about.
Tons of bloat, inexperience and toxicity in tech leadership and down.
Tech can’t drive excitement for product or make meaning commercials, but we’re sure not helping the sinking ship.
Trust me, Nike didn’t spend hundreds of millions of dollars on AI. They haven’t even come close to spending $100 million. Just because a tool has AI doesn’t mean they paid for it. Even the developer tools have been relatively low-cost investments. Those of us who used to work with our now departed teammates should remember that this is due to cost-cutting measures, not efficiency.
You don't fire everyone and replace them with AI, you fire the low performers and give the high performers AI to fill the gap, or you fire the high performers and give the low performers AI and hope like he-l it's worth the salary gamble. Replacing entire orgs is just silly
Industry has already moved on.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/28/ford-rehires-gray-beard-engineers-after-ai-falls-short/
Give us another two years and we'll course correct.
We should keep investing in AI because Wall Street said so.
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