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AI agents might be replacing jobs in the future, so executives are cutting profit generating employees in the present?



> profit generating employees

Good professionals are being hit by these layoffs, but I suspect the vast majority create little to no value for their employers.


The point is that if they are not letting go of employees for economic reasons i.e. they are no longer economically viable because of the environment, then they must be getting rid of them while the employees are actively valuable? otherwise the AI agent argument holds no water, because the employees aren't creating value anyway, so their dismissal is orthogonal to the AI agent question.




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