As usual, I think the truth lies somewhere in between. AI eliminates jobs and creates new ones. It makes us work more (all research points to this; yet another report on it came out just yesterday that supports this).

What I'm hearing from companies laying people off is that there's a real gain from AI that enables the layoffs but they're also "seizing the opportunity." I also somewhat believe in the "necessity is the mother of invention" angle. If you run things lean, people are forced to think harder.

And Peter Girnus doesn't work at Amazon. He's a well-known provocateur who, if you look at his timeline, writes as if he works at different companies to put forward a hypothesis about how he thinks things have played out, in order to shape opinion. So basically, he writes satirical posts about "AI implementations" at various large corporations.