206dev here...
Oh yeah, call out a tech city and all the butt-hurt-ness comes out. Perfect example of "Rage Bait".
People here aren't hurt because of AI - people here are hurt because they learned they were just line items in a budget.
When the interest rates went up in 2022/2023 and the cheap money went away, businesses had to pivot their taxes while appeasing the shareholder.
Remember that time when Satya went to a company sponsored rich people thing with Aerosmith or whomever playing while announcing thousands of FTE's being laid off? Yeah, that...
If your job can be done by a very small shell script, why wasn't it done before?