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Finally an honest headline: Oracle is cutting up to 30,000 employees to pay for AI data centres (ground.news)
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Most of the time the companies say the layoffs are because AI is doing people jobs, but the reality is that making things that use AI is just a lot more expensive. And enabling employees to use AI more than the free tier is really expensive too. So, they need to cut cost elsewhere to balance it out.

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[–] 53 points 7 months ago (11 children)

Tens of thousands of employees and not one of them knows how to make a good error message

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  • [–] 76 points 7 months ago (10 children)

    I was once told by Oracle engineers that it would take 18-24 months to add a drop down with auto complete to their ticketing system.

    They don’t have good engineers because Oracle is a law firm pretending to be a tech company.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    Not sure the engineers are entirely at fault for how long things take there. I'm guessing they must have some insane review and release processes with significant bottlenecks and it's all because of their structure

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I recall reading an ex oracle engineer say that the code base is basically spaghetti. Not only that, but you basically have to be lucky to get your pr in, as due to said spaghetti, there is a high chance that it will be broken by the pr merged before yours.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    I worked with a guy that used to work at Oracle and he pretty much said the same thing. Essentially if you sneezed anywhere within a 10km radius of Oracles code base (and it didn't matter which product) you ran the risk of it all crashing down. dudes spent more time talking about how to theoretically fix something as opposed to actually fixing it.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    These guys were blown away when I showed them the same feature in a competitor’s product.

    The company I worked for had just been bought by Oracle and we were under a directive to switch to all Oracle software, so I guess they weren’t motivated because there wasn’t extra money in it.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Okay, yikes. I didn't think it could be THAT bad, but I guess Oracle never fails to surprise.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    The worst part is that it was all down to our existing system being owned by Salesforce, and Larry Ellison hating the CEO of Salesforce.

    We could still use Amazon and Microsoft products but nothing from Saleforce because Uncle Larry was butthurt.

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