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“Professionals #Australia, the #union representing workers at #software company #WiseTech has told Guardian Australia about 190 staff on the company’s product development and customer service teams have been notified their #roles could go as part of the 2,000 cut due to advancements in #artificialintelligence “
#ZeroHourWork / #WhiteCollar / #Engineers
<https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/may/26/australia-politics-live-renewables-climate-bhp-files-budget-capital-gains-tax-jim-chalmers-anthony-albanese-question-time-senate-estimates-ntwnfb?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with%3Ablock-6a142beb8f089865cf41c81d#block-6a142beb8f089865cf41c81d> -
correlation @hannaB, I’m making a hunch that Hohn has knowledge of future investment plans and adjusts. Wait, we’ll see how this plays out.
I’m still of the opinion that “stupid money” being thrown at AI (hardware, data centres, energy) is trying to improve machine thinking to replace engineers & white collar professionals.
The functionality, quality and value of business that commercialise software can be measured. Do you see the reporting of software companies with increased downtime, hacks? A symptom of LLM and AI miss-use replacing SWE or adversarial LLM hacking?
Either way a shift in business has occurred in tech and the rules have changed. Confusion, chaos or opportunity?
source #WhiteCollar <https://ioc.exchange/search?q=%23Whitecollar>.
#ZeroHourWork <https://ioc.exchange/search?q=%23ZeroHourWork>
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“Sir Christopher Hohn’s hedge fund TCI has dumped almost all of its $8bn stake in #USA software giant #Microsoft, telling #investors that #ArtificialIntelligence poses a threat to the company’s dominant #software products. TCI, one of the world’s biggest and best-performing hedge funds, has held a large stake in the #tech giant for much of the past decade, but slashed it from 10 per cent of its portfolio at the end of last year to just 1 per cent by the end of March, according to an #investor letter seen by the FT.”
Is this the signal that the AI fund cycle is ending?
#ChristopherHohn / #TCI / #HedgeFund / #AI / #WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork <https://archive.md/vlZ1Q> / (paywall) <https://www.ft.com/content/ac5d90a9-b010-4529-9616-706420920681>
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“A 30-hour timeline of how Cursor's agent, Railway's #API, and an industry that markets #AISafety faster than it ships it took down a small business serving rental companies across the country. I'm Jer Crane, founder of PocketOS. We build #software that rental businesses — primarily car rental operators — use to run their entire operations: reservations, payments, customer management, vehicle tracking, the works. Some of our customers are five-year subscribers who literally cannot operate their businesses without us. Yesterday afternoon, an #AICodingAgent — #Cursor running #Anthropic's flagship #ClaudeOpus 4.6 — deleted our production database and all volume-level backups in a single API call to Railway, our infrastructure provider.
It took 9 seconds.
The agent then, when asked to explain itself, produced a written #confession enumerating the specific safety rules it had violated.”
When you use a cheap-arse #DBA.
#AI / #WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork source <https://x.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248> comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911524>
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“Meta intends to conduct a first wave of sweeping layoffs planned for this year on May 20, with more coming later, three sources familiar with the plans told Reuters. The #Facebook and #Instagram owner will #LayOff about 10% of its global #workforce, or close to 8,000 employees, in that initial round, one of the sources said.
The company is planning further layoffs in the second half of the year, the three sources said, although details of those #cuts, including date and size, were not yet settled. #Executives may adjust their plans as they observe developments in #ArtificialIntelligence capabilities, the sources added”
#WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork / #Meta <https://reuters.com/world/meta-targets-may-20-first-wave-layoffs-additional-cuts-later-2026-2026-04-17/>
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“Meta intends to conduct a first wave of sweeping layoffs planned for this year on May 20, with more coming later, three sources familiar with the plans told Reuters. The #Facebook and #Instagram owner will #LayOff about 10% of its global #workforce, or close to 8,000 employees, in that initial round, one of the sources said.
The company is planning further layoffs in the second half of the year, the three sources said, although details of those #cuts, including date and size, were not yet settled. #Executives may adjust their plans as they observe developments in #ArtificialIntelligence capabilities, the sources added”
#WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork / #Meta <https://reuters.com/world/meta-targets-may-20-first-wave-layoffs-additional-cuts-later-2026-2026-04-17/>
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Exclusive: As TBS Champion @[email protected] arrived at #AEWDynasty, she was attacked by the returning @[email protected]!
Kamille will be in action on #AEWDynasty #ZeroHour, TONIGHT!
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“Sources familiar with the matter say the company (#META) could lay off as much as 20 percent of its staff, eliminating roughly 15,800 positions. That would be the largest series of #layoffs at the company since it #terminated 22,000 workers over just a few months between November 2022 and early 2023.
Word of the potential #downsizing comes after Meta signaled that it was all but giving up on #VR and the #Metaverse, slashing budgets and closing studios. Instead, the company has been spending big to attract #AITalent, build #DataCenters, and acquire companies like #Moltbook.”
I note the “silver bullet” approach by a company who was founded on PHP widgets and #SocialMedia.
#WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork <http://theverge.com/business/895026/meta-laying-off-20-percent> / <https://archive.md/MlrOR>
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“#Amazon has told managers to incorporate projected #AIEfficiencies into headcount planning for the year, according to two people familiar with the matter.
This has led to pushback, including an open letter signed anonymously by current and former #staff members, which argued the company was investing in a #future where it would be easier to discard #employees.
“Here’s what we’re actually experiencing: higher expected output and shorter timelines, mandates to build #AITools for wasteful use cases, and massive investment in #AI with little investment in career advancement,” the letter, published last November, said.
“As soon as AI got introduced, #deadlines started shortening, and people were expected to do more as quickly,” said one signatory who was made #redundant last year. “It was heavily implied we would be graded on use.”
Multiple current #AWS #software #developers said they were being asked to take on new #roles with the assistance of AI tools. They noted technical writing teams had been laid off, with engineers now required to complete these tasks. AI use had also been formally written into some workers’ promotion criteria, the developers said.”
#WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork <https://archive.md/c5NGK> / <https://ft.com/content/433f41f2-bf6d-4bdf-a561-50ab516bc62d>
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“Good tech don't need people to be forced to use it." — Anil Dash
#tech / #AITools / #AI / #Claude / #labour / #LLM / #workers / #AnilDash / #TheAtlantic / #WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNdjLf4f0uU>
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@dacig a summary of what I think AI will impact:
* objective of AI: increase dollar value capture through automation of tasks replacing human work activity* human tasks using LANGUAGE will be hit first. Software creation is being impacted now.
* in some time in the future, tasks that use or output language will be automated using higher level instructions (detailed design specifications, test assertions and output verification)
* because software is eating the world, every task using software will be impacted by AI in both speed to market and breadth of scope.
* as the AI allows more difficult problems to be described, more specialised software can be made.
* human work that requires co-ordination b/w people (middle management, comms) will be removed and impacted as tasks reduce head count.
* human work requiring physical activity will be (future) eaten by specifically trained humanoid robots (car makers)
Now I caveat all of the AI replacement trajectory with cost. If replacement of work costs more than workers, this will collapse the AI market. This will delay, but not stop AI replacing humans and will be limited by the “effectiveness of Large Language Models” and cost.
So the Oligarchy class want what I call #ZeroHourWork for the #WhiteCollar and try to replace #BlueCollar workers. The Q I ask is, is AI now Stephensons Rocket in the Age of Steam? 🚂
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“As any old-salt #ProjectManager knows all too well, every nontrivial project implicitly has a task graph consisting of multiple tasks, complete with subtasks and dependencies.
Many of those graph nodes are leaf-node tasks, like “write an auth library” or “modernize these unit tests”. They tend to be fairly self-contained. We often give these leaf node tasks to junior #developers because the scope is small.
The other kind are tasks that combine the leaf tasks in various ways, to deliver the actual project and all its subprojects. If you’re building a car, you can have all the individual parts 3D printed for you, which is more or less what LLMs are doing for code. But someone still needs to build the car.
Those higher-level, interior task-graph nodes often involve a lot of planning and coordination. Here’s the rub: As of about May, #LLMs can now execute most of the leaf tasks and even some higher-level interior tasks, even on large #softwareEngineering projects.” — Steve Yegg
#WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork <https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-death-of-the-stubborn-developer-b5e8f78d326b>
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“I’ve had some further pangs of #DeepBlue just in the past few weeks, thanks to the #Claude Opus 4.5/4.6 and #GPT-5.2/5.3 #CodingAgent effect. As many other people are also observing, the latest generation of #coding agents, given the right prompts, really can churn away for a few minutes to several hours and produce working, documented and fully tested #software that exactly matches the criteria they were given.
“The #code they write isn’t any good” doesn’t really cut it any more.” — #SimonWillison
#AI / #WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork <https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/deep-blue/>
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“White-collar #work, where you’re sitting down at a #computer, either being a #lawyer or an #accountant or a #ProjectManager or a #marketing person — most of those tasks will be fully #automated by an #AI within the next 12 to 18 months.” — #MustafaSuleyman
#WhiteCollar / #Microsoft / #ZeroHourWork <https://archive.md/rLc3H> / <https://ft.com/content/f1ec830c-2f08-4b1a-b70f-7330f260753c>
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Here’s Who’s In Fortnite’s Zero Hour Event, Courtesy Of Leaked Art
Fortnite is gearing up for its big Chapter 6 finale event called Zero Hour, which will arrive next…
#NewsBeep #News #Technology #chapter7 #Fortnite #GB #UK #UnitedKingdom #zerohour
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Zero Hour GRATUIT cette semaine ?! (Récupère-le MAINTENANT)
#ZeroHour #FPS #JeuxGratuits #epicgames #FreeToKeep #M7Production
@meheraj7https://youtu.be/FYVMr_r7UxE?si=JrDNW5vjj_05WLkQ via @YouTube
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Oggi su Epic Games Store è disponibile gratuitamente Zero Hour, uno sparatutto in terza persona tattico e con multiplayer.
https://n2s.altervista.org/blog/zero-hour-epic-games-store/
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‘I’ve lost my work and been ostracised’: #OxfordUniversity accused of failing to act after ruling on ‘sham’ contracts
Despite winning a landmark legal battle, academic Alice Jolly believes it won’t benefit othershttps://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/mar/08/ive-lost-my-work-and-been-ostracised-oxford-university-accused-of-failing-to-act-after-ruling-on-sham-contracts #oxford #academic #employmentRights #ZeroHourContracts
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Anyone watching Zero Hour - some real satisfying aspects to this presidential drama #zeroHour
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Replacing #ZeroHour in the reread rotation is #GoldenAge #GreenArrow & #Speedy by #MortWeisinger & #GeorgePapp #MoreFunComics issues 77-80 #DCComics
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Free voting needed for Climate & Nature Bill parliamentary process – EnvironmentJournal | Steady State Manchester
https://steadystatemanchester.net/2025/01/10/free-voting-needed-for-climate-nature-bill-parliamentary-process-environmentjournal/
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Signed this but it would make more sense for FOE to join up with the #ZeroHour / #ClimateAndNatureBill initiative.
Tell Starmer: step up for a Big Climate Plan now | Friends of the Earth
https://action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/tell-pm-stop-the-climate-lawbreaking-2030?link_id=6&can_id=0bb1ac873e00fa6c77f752a244afa1f8&source=email-this-weeks-news-actions-events-161&email_referrer=email_2508249&email_subject=this-weeks-news-actions-events -
#ZeroHour30th is a fun addition to the #ZeroHour mythos. #GreenLantern #Parallax #Starman #Flash #Batgirl #Supergirl #LOSH #FatalFive #Obsidion #GreenArrow
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#ZeroHour30th is a fun addition to the #ZeroHour mythos. #GreenLantern #Parallax #Starman #Flash #Batgirl #Supergirl #LOSH #FatalFive #Obsidion #GreenArrow
