Comment on Cisco to lay off more than 4,000 employees to focus on artificial intelligence

Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They’ll be fine for a time until competition emerges and their products become obsolete and this the cycle begins again

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  • sebinspace@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not really sure Cisco would fall even if the company fell. Cisco isn’t just a company that makes networking equipment, they’ve been influencing the architecture and paradigms behind the Internet for so long that their influence would be felt for years, even if they were to disappear today…

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    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What about juniper?

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• BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No matter what happens they’ll tell investors it was a huge success.

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• normalexit@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Their stocks are going up with every layoff and costs are going down. It’s working marvelously for the executives.

  Is it sustainable? God I hope not.

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• phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t know, but Microsoft’s free copilot stuff is so useful that it doesn’t make me feel the need to pay them for the business product

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  • captain_samuel_brady@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I paid the $30 today for their 365 Pilot and asked it to summarize a meeting for me that was recorded and it couldn’t even find the meeting.

    But hey, I’m sure Cisco will do a better job. Everybody I know keeps asking about Cisco’s AI. Maybe it will finally give a good answer as to why I should pay a subscription to own an access point.

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    • drislands@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m in agreement that this stuff is painfully useless.

      But “it couldn’t even find the meeting” sounds more like a configuration problem and less like a comment on the product’s quality.

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      • phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        From time to time Teams doesn’t show me a teams meeting that I have on my outlook calendar, so I’d believe it.

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      • captain_samuel_brady@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m not even sure how it’s configured. I added the license, added the app to Teams, and asked it to summarize a meeting that I knew had been recorded. When it couldn’t find the meeting, I asked it for a list of meetings that I had on that day. It responded with a partial list, not including the correct meeting. The correct meeting was visible in both the Outlook and Teams calendars.

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    • phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s my bad. I was trying to say it was so not useful. Poor wording on my part.

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