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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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[–] 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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