HP plans to save millions by laying off thousands, ramping up AI use

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• DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  We already knew that HP was a shit company. No change there.

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• BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Only firing thousands, you can do better I dare HP to replace everyone with AI.

  I’ll watch the fireworks 🍿

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• reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  LLMs are such an unstable technology right now, literally changing every few weeks. I don’t understand why companies are willing to fold it into their workflows in the current state.

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  • vateso5074@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Guessing either:

    1. Leadership lives so deeply in techbro echo chambers that they are completely oblivious to the volatility of the market.

    2. These companies have a poor financial outlook and are hedging their bets that an AI pivot can give them access to income they need.

    To me, the fact that they’re starting with layoffs means that they are in dire straits and need to cost cut badly, and are hoping that declaring a dedicated push to adopt AI will retain some measure of confidence from the market.

    If a company was doing well prior to adopting AI, they’d fold it into their workflows first and then start looking at who is redundant and who should stay.

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  • Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I blame the drive to use anything new before the competitor does and gets an advantage, added to worse and worse IT departments that don't really know what they're doing. There could be some companies that have a good IT that just get overruled, of course.

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• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  LOL. just hang around the parking lot at HP and management will call you back in an hour. Get a raise out of it.

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I predict failure.

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• LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The drivers and software for their printers is such garbage already even if the vibe-coding breaks them entirely I won’t be able to tell the difference

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• Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Reminder that HP created and maintains the biometric apartheid systems for the terrorist state of Israel

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• not_me@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Dump HP,

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• superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I removed every single HP device I could find in my house a few years back.

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• deforestgump@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Hopefully HP will finally die.

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• glimmer_twin@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Depending on what “AI use” means, at a certain point it’s probably just cheaper to use humans. Leasing compute isn’t cheap. Data centres aren’t cheap. Chips aren’t cheap.

  What’s actually happening every time you see a “we’re sacking humans to use AI” story: the economy is fucked and layoffs would have happened regardless. This is just a fig leaf they can use to hide that fact.

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  • Sunforged@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Using the AI bubble as the reason investors shouldn’t panic over the AI bubble.

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