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SUSE to cut one in ten employees because of AI (www.theregister.com)
9 points by klhs •                         
klhs •                         
As the article says: "One in ten employees at SUSE are facing the chop [...]".

It would be interesting to know if the reason is truly automation. Apparently the equity firm owning Suse considered selling it off recently, see last paragraph.

dandaditya •                         
Is this article referring to suse Linux distro ?
klhs •                         
SUSE finances the maintenance of the openSUSE distro afaik.
sixtyj •                         
Imho 10% is normal… If you are a corporation, you employ a lot of redundant people. So sometimes you need to make let lose weak ones.

Pareto not applied here btw

klhs •                         
Compared to the future AI-worker we might all turn out to be weak. :)
add-sub-mul-div •                         
Invention's primary purpose is to replace human labor. It's explicitly stated by first party as reason for reduction of labor. Comments: "It would be interesting to learn if this has anything to do with AI."
klhs •                         
You could just reply to me directly, you know. I don't doubt that AI is able to fill some roles already but a company can obviously have other reasons to downsize, and maybe they just think "'twas 'cause of AI" sounds better. Then again, maybe I'm just coping, as the kids say.