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eBay will lay off 1,000 employees — 9 percent of the company (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm betting AI will "fill the gaps" for a while until profits start to drop due to AI not being ready for primetime in most capacities. Then they'll start hiring back real people to fix the damage for a few years before trying it all over again.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

If AI could do all the work of engineers, the engineers would be using it right now to do their job, while relaxing on the sofa and getting paid.

I'm sure some enterprise jobs could be automated though. Stuff like filling in excel sheets with the same things every day.

[–] Miaou@jlai.lu 1 points 10 months ago

I've already seen this. If you know some programming and not a software person, you can probably automate a good chunk of your work