Tech Industry job layoffs looking scary

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Today is when the Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout​

Today is when Amazon brain drain finally caught up with AWS

column: When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works

www.theregister.com

When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works

At the end of 2023, Justin Garrison left AWS and roasted them on his way out the door. He stated that AWS had seen an increase in Large Scale Events (or LSEs), and predicted significant outages in 2024. It would seem that he discounted the power of inertia, but the pace of senior AWS departures certainly hasn't slowed — and now, with an outage like this, one is forced to wonder whether those departures are themselves a contributing factor.

 

[IIVI]

Recently got promoted to the A.I team and codebase at my work. I was hoping to join the Embedded Systems/Hardware team but apparently two of the A.I folks are leaving to work at bigger companies after the knowledge they picked up and they needed people fast. Onboarding started last week. Some of this stuff is crazy but is honestly simple. Working with A.I really has come a long way from writing and training your own to simply pipelining OpenAI upstream.

 

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Recently got promoted to the A.I team and codebase at my work. Onboarding started last week. Some of this stuff is crazy but is honestly simple. Working with A.I really has come a long way from writing and training your own to simply pipelining OpenAI upstream.

Congrats on the promotion breh

 

[IIVI]

Congrats on the promotion breh

Appreciate it breh.

It’s been pretty crazy. Some services have become insanely simple and are now nothing but middlemen/routing to OpenAI.

Rather than using Voice Transcription libraries they basically funnel the input audio channel into OpenAI, set the conversation style and connect the Audio Channel output back to the user and store the metadata/details. It used to take a ton of libraries to do this.

Reminds me of when we used to carry a lot of different gadgets to now only using smartphones with a bunch of their software counterparts as apps. I can see a similar lane for A.I happening if it hasn’t started already.

 

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Appreciate it breh.

It’s been pretty crazy. Some services have become insanely simple and are now nothing but middlemen/routing to OpenAI.

Rather than using Voice Transcription libraries they basically funnel the input audio channel into OpenAI, set the conversation style and connect the Audio Channel output back to the user and store the metadata/details. It used to take a ton of libraries to do this.

Reminds me of when we used to carry a lot of different gadgets to now only using smartphones with a bunch of their software counterparts as apps. I can see a similar lane for A.I happening if it hasn’t started already.

Yeah I know what you mean I'm not advanced advanced like you. But things that used to be a tedious and long have been cut by like 80% for me. Which allows me to do other stuff but I know the top heads dont see it like that

 

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Walmart halts H-1B visa offers amid Trump’s $100,000 fee increase - Bloomberg​

https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/walmart-halts-h1b-visa-offers-amid-trumps-100000-fee-increase--bloomberg-93CH-4299865

 

[Silkk]

This might be that big Blackhat event that was inevitable....

 

[DJSmooth]

Walmart halts H-1B visa offers amid Trump’s $100,000 fee increase - Bloomberg​

https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/walmart-halts-h1b-visa-offers-amid-trumps-100000-fee-increase--bloomberg-93CH-4299865

Them Indians have been losing their mind on team blind.

 

[Apollo Creed]

 

[TRUEST]

One thing I find amusing is that only the tech workers are expected to keep up with the latest technologies. Not the ceos. If they were mandated to stay current like everyone else things would change fast.

 

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Police: Remote IT employee worked for state, at GlobalFoundries at same time​

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/sheriff-remote-employee-worked-state-malta-time-21103584.php

An information technology employee
who worked remotely allegedly bilked taxpayers out of $50,000 by working for a contractor at GlobalFoundries in Malta while he was on the clock for his state job, officials said.

Mehul A. Goswami, 39, of Colonie, was charged with second-degree grand larceny on Wednesday.

https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/us-news/indian-origin-ny-resident-arrested-in-us-for-working-two-jobs-faces-15-years-in-jail/4018321/

 

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that's the "everything bubble" talk

 

[IIVI]

One thing I find amusing is that only the tech workers are expected to keep up with the latest technologies. Not the ceos. If they were mandated to stay current like everyone else things would change fast.

I posted a video awhile back of someone making the comparison between a SWE and a Medical doctor. At the end of the day, they’re both life-long learning careers. If you want to be a thorough, knowledgeable SWE, then like a Medical Doctor you’re going to have to read some intensive technical books on whatever you’re trying to learn and that knowledge keeps updating as well.

This isn’t really the industry to stop learning once you make it. The more knowledge you build the more valuable and flexible you are as a professional. At the end of the day, these CEO’s want the bleeding edge and some kind of moat to push their company to the top and keep a competitive advantage.

Even many traditional engineering roles from Civil to Electrical don’t expect the same knowledge growth over a career. I know some people working in those fields for about 20 years who haven’t stepped outside much of what they learned in college. While we’re looking for breakthroughs, Physics does set a lot of constraints and Ohm’s Law is still valid. In comparison, a SWE would be basically a pass if all they knew was the MEAN stack (unless at a very deep level) after 10 years although it was a standard and everywhere for a couple years. You’d have to find a very specific job at that point.

 

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Mitchell: The double standard on reshoring in manufacturing vs. tech​

Mitchell: The double standard on reshoring in manufacturing vs. tech

Onshoring manufacturing comes with tariffs, credits and content rules for shifting production. But in tech, offshoring runs unchecked.

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Onshoring manufacturing comes with tariffs, credits and content rules for shifting production. But in tech, offshoring runs unchecked. Each year, U.S. companies offshore more than 300,000 high-skill tech jobs, often outsourcing entire departments without disclosing the number of jobs relocated or the U.S. wages displaced. IT is now the most outsourced business function, offering companies a cheap shortcut with no oversight, reporting or import-like taxes.

We’ve put tariffs and tax credits behind factory jobs, but let high-skill tech jobs quietly slip overseas — undermining the AI ambitions that Washington champions. Domestic tech jobs drive wages, strengthen national security and fuel AI innovation. If the United States is serious about its economic and tech future, it needs to rebuild its domestic workforce.

Now, 37% of IT tasks are performed overseas. At the same time, the 400,000 H-1B visas approved last year — 65% of which are for tech — are competing with entry-level roles that should be filled by American graduates. Instead of easing unemployment, they exacerbate the issue by sidelining a generation of U.S. talent.

Outsourcing may look cost-effective on a balance sheet, but when the code for banks, grids and hospital systems is built or maintained offshore, we import foreign-law exposure, vendors that are difficult to audit and slower response times when things break. That “efficiency” is a national security risk.