MikeVanDervort

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🚨BREAKING: The workers losing their jobs to AI are not the ones who use AI. Stanford's 2026 AI Index confirms it. Unemployment is rising faster among workers least exposed to AI than workers most exposed. The threat was never having a job AI can do. It is having a job AI cannot reach. For two years the entire conversation has been built on one assumption. AI takes the high-exposure jobs first. The lawyers. The analysts. The programmers. Every layoff headline reinforced the same story. Stanford just inverted it. The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI tracked unemployment changes across occupations sorted by AI exposure. They expected to find workers most exposed to AI losing jobs faster than workers least exposed. They found the opposite. Workers in low-exposure occupations are losing jobs faster than workers in high-exposure ones. The mechanism makes sense once you see it. Companies are not firing AI-exposed workers and replacing them with AI. They are using AI to make those workers more productive. Then they cut elsewhere. The cuts come from departments where AI is not yet a tool. The AI-exposed workers are not the casualties. They are the leverage that justifies cuts everywhere else. The numbers make this concrete. Software developers aged 22 to 25 saw employment fall nearly 20% from 2022 to 2025. But experienced developers in the same field grew their headcount. The cuts within tech are concentrated in entry level. The cuts outside tech are concentrated in jobs where AI never arrived. The pattern is consistent across every dataset Stanford pulled from. The marketing team using AI gets to keep its 12 people. The procurement team that is not using AI loses 4 of its 10. The accounting team using AI gets to keep its workflow. The facilities team that is not using AI absorbs the layoff. The savings have to come from somewhere. Stanford documented exactly where. McKinsey's 2025 executive survey confirmed where the next round is heading. A third of organizations expect AI to shrink their workforce in the next year. The cuts they named were not in the high-exposure categories. They were in service operations and supply chain. Departments that have to absorb the cost savings the AI-exposed teams are generating elsewhere. The detail most coverage missed: productivity gains from AI are not appearing in tasks requiring more judgment. The 14% gain in customer service and 26% gain in software development are real. In tasks requiring legal reasoning, financial judgment, or strategic decision-making, productivity gains are weak or negative. The work AI is actually doing is concentrated in narrow task categories. The work AI is supposed to do, that justifies the layoffs, is not showing measurable productivity at all. If you spent the last two years assuming your job was safe because AI could not do it, the Stanford 2026 AI Index just confirmed your job is exactly where the cuts are landing. Source: Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, 2026 AI Index Report PDF: hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-…

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Here is the letter Meta Platforms $META just sent to employees about the cutting laying off 10% of the workforce: "Over the last few weeks we have been working on some changes to our organization that will result in us laying off around 10% of the company on May 20, and closing about 6,000 open roles. Normally, we would want to nail down more details before communicating about this broadly, but since this has leaked, I want to share what I can right now. I know this is unwelcome news and confirming this puts everyone in an uneasy state, but we feel this is the best path forward, given the circumstances. We’re doing this as part of our continued effort to run the company more efficiently and to allow us to offset the other investments we’re making. This is not an easy tradeoff and it will mean letting go of people who have made meaningful contributions to Meta during their time here. We will support those who are laid off with a generous severance package which, in the US, will include 16 weeks base pay plus two weeks for every year of employment. We will also cover the cost of COBRA health care coverage for US employees and their families for 18 months. Packages outside the US will be similar but vary by country, as will local timelines and processes. We will also offer career services to support people in finding another role, and immigration support for those who need it. We’ll share more of these details in a follow up post ahead of May 20. For notifications, we will follow the same process we have before: on May 20, anyone who is impacted will receive an email to their work and personal accounts – please make sure your personal email is updated in Workday. I know this leaves everyone with nearly a month of ambiguity which is incredibly unsettling. We will try to answer your questions here in the comments but as we’re still working through the details we aren’t able to share much more until later in May. Meanwhile, you can find more information on the People Portal which includes our standard FAQs and logistical details for layoffs."

🦔Microsoft is offering a voluntary retirement program for the first time in its 51-year history, making approximately 8,750 US employees eligible based on a formula combining age and years of service totaling 70 or more. The program is open to employees at senior director level and below. Eligible employees will be notified May 7 and have 30 days to decide. Financial details haven't been disclosed yet but will include a payout and extended healthcare coverage. Microsoft laid off more than 15,000 employees last year and has been requiring Seattle-area workers to return to office three days a week since February. My Take Voluntary retirement programs are standard practice in telecom and manufacturing, industries that have spent decades managing workforce transitions in aging organizations. Microsoft introducing one for the first time in 51 years says something about where the company thinks it is in its own lifecycle, and about how it wants to be seen doing what it needs to do. Microsoft is spending heavily on AI infrastructure, has already cut 15,000 people through layoffs, and is now offering its most expensive, longest-serving employees a dignified exit before the alternative becomes less dignified. The age plus service formula targeting people with 70 combined years effectively concentrates the offer on employees in their late 40s and 50s with deep institutional knowledge, exactly the demographic that is hardest to replace and most expensive to retain. Whether this reads as generous or as a softer version of what Oracle did with its vest-date targeting depends entirely on what the package actually contains, which Microsoft won't say until May 7. Hedgie🤗

BREAKING: Apple CEO Tim Cook steps down. Cook has served as CEO since taking over for Steve Jobs in 2011.

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44% of Gen Z employees are secretly destroying their company's AI systems from the inside. They're literally poisoning the data, faking the results, and making AI look like it doesn't work. This new survey of 2,400 workers by Writer and Workplace Intelligence is genuinely unbelievable... 29% of ALL employees admit to actively sabotaging their company's AI strategy. Among Gen Z workers? 44%. Nearly HALF. What they're doing: - Feeding proprietary company data into public AI tools on purpose - Tampering with performance reviews to make AI look like it's underperforming - Deliberately generating garbage output so leadership thinks the technology is broken - Refusing training - Refusing to log in - Some are even manipulating analytics dashboards to HIDE any productivity gains AI actually delivers They have a name for it too: FOBO. Fear Of Becoming Obsolete. And it honestly makes complete sense when you look at what their CEOs are telling them. Palantir's CEO stood on a stage at Davos in January and said "AI will destroy humanities jobs." Direct quote. Then added "You're effed." Anthropic's CEO said AI could eliminate HALF of all entry-level white-collar jobs. Microsoft's AI chief said ALL white-collar work could be automated within 18 months. These aren't random Twitter predictions. These are the CEOs of the companies BUILDING the AI. Telling the workforce directly that they're about to be replaced. Then those same companies turn around and say "please adopt this tool that's going to take your job." And they're genuinely confused when employees fight back. The data gets even worse though: 60% of executives say they're considering FIRING employees who refuse to adopt AI. 77% say they'll block promotions for anyone who resists. Accenture is literally monitoring weekly AI login data to decide who gets promoted. Meanwhile the job market for the people being told to "adapt or die" looks like this: - Entry-level software postings dropped from 43% to 28% since 2023 - 43% of US graduates aged 22 to 27 are underemployed - 60% of entry-level jobs now require 3+ years of experience - 80,000 tech workers have been laid off in 2026 alone AI was the LEADING cause of job cuts in March 2026 for the first time in recorded history. So the math is simple: CEOs are telling workers AI will replace them. Then demanding they use it. Then threatening to fire them if they don't. All while the job market outside is collapsing. And they wonder why 44% of Gen Z is burning it from the inside. But here's the part that surprised me the most: 75% of the executives in the same survey admitted their company's AI strategy is "more for show than a meaningful guide to outcomes." 3 out of 4 companies don't even HAVE a real AI strategy. They're forcing adoption of tools they don't understand. For strategies they haven't built. While threatening the livelihoods of people who see through the entire charade. 54% of executives also said AI is "tearing their company apart." Well... no shit. This is the first organized sabotage campaign against a technology in modern corporate history. The last time workers systematically destroyed the machines threatening their jobs was the Luddite movement in 1811. Factory workers smashing textile looms across England. History books treated them like idiots. Turns out they were 200 years early. The only difference is that today's sabotage is invisible. Corrupted data, faked metrics, and an entire generation quietly making sure the robots don't work. And the craziest part is that the executives threatening to fire them are the same ones who can't tell the AI is being sabotaged. Because they don't understand the technology either.

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