the depressing thing about this is AI gets so much of the operations stuff wrong but the yardstick here isn’t quality or service but rather profit
Cloudflare’s CEO explains why despite over 30% revenue growth, they are laying off 20% of staff.
He argues that there are 3 types of workers; builders, sellers and measurers (middle managers, legal, HR, operations, etc).
AI makes it possible to automate the last group and he expects everyone will