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AI keeps getting blamed for tech layoffs, but the numbers don't really line up
I keep seeing "AI took these jobs" every time a company does layoffs, and I'm not convinced it's the main driver. A few things I keep coming back to. The industry cut around 122,500 jobs in 2025, down from about 153,000 in 2024. AI was named as a direct reason in fewer than 8% of those announcements. So for the other 90 percent plus, something else was going on. Actual AI adoption inside companies is also lower than the marketing suggests. Full org-wide rollout is still in the sing...
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