"Part of why the moment feels so dreadful is the mass experience of management sprinting to cut costs — gleefully, enthusiastically, in many cases before the technology even fully works."

It hardly matters that generative AI systems are actually too incompetant to replace workers because the leaders making the layoff decisions are also incompetant and entirely delusional. The disenfranchised millions have every reason to panic.

A former coworker penned this timely and accurate article: