Ivana Tilca

Oracle is confirmed cutting 20,000-30,000 jobs but sources inside are saying the real number is closer to 45,000 I'm hearing this isn't just about AI data center costs Word is they've been running pilot programs with AI agents doing database administration work for 8 months One source told me a team of 47 DBAs in Austin got replaced by 3 senior architects plus automated Oracle Cloud Infrastructure management The agents are handling routine maintenance, performance tuning, backup verification - stuff that used to require armies of L4 and L5 engineers Internal metrics show the AI systems are catching 94% of database issues before human intervention needed But here's the terrifying part: they're not just cutting the obvious roles I'm hearing entire solution engineering teams are getting eliminated - the people who customize implementations for enterprise clients Apparently the new AI workflow can generate custom database schemas and migration plans in 6 hours instead of 6 weeks One insider said they watched a 12-person team that handled Fortune 500 implementations get told their roles were "redundant effective immediately" The severance packages are allegedly massive - 18 months salary plus equity vesting acceleration But that's because Oracle knows these people can't find equivalent work anywhere Every other enterprise software company is running the same playbook One source said it best: "We're not getting laid off, we're getting archived"

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There's a toxic culture coming out of the AI industry that keeps trying to get us not to think. The message is everywhere. Don’t read the code, just vibe-code. Don’t try to understand all the text, just let AI summarize it. Don’t bother educating yourself, it’s too late. Don’t worry about the errors. Trust that everything will be fixed in the next version. The theme is the same. Don’t think too hard. Just keep swallowing the slop.