Cisco to lay off more than 4,000 employees to focus on artificial intelligence::Cisco revealed plans to slash its headcount by 5% on Wednesday, which will affect roughly 4,250 employees across the tech behemoth’s global workforce.

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    8 months ago

    With all these companies pivoting to the creation of AI products, this seems like a great opportunity for someone to step in and create … Checks notes … absolutely anything else.

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      8 months ago

      I can’t wait to watch these companies all get their marketshare eaten by “ToddCo”, a company where a guy named Todd figures out that be can poach Starbucks employees and get better results than these AI deliver.

      The sixty minutes interview is going to be epic:

      “Then it struck me! Sure, James writes my name wrong on my cup every day, but he’s never once misjudged how many limbs I have!”

      • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        poach Starbucks employees and get better results than these AI deliver.

        Newsflash: Starbucks coffee already isn’t that great. Then they’ll take the savings from firing all the baristas and buy out “ToddCo”.