Let it burn 🔥

AI goes well: mass layoffs.
AI goes poorly: mass layoffs

Truly the best system

It's happening !!!

Article is from Feb 2 FYI.

Oh fuck. This is going to really, really hurt.

And for people that might be gloating about it: it's likely to hurt the very most for the people not in the upper 1% of 1%.

Poor java :(

No sympathy for people who work for oracle/blizzard/ea/etc.

They deserve all the abuse they get.

AI needs to die

Have we finally stopped pretending the layoffs are being caused by AI replacing workers?

To the surprise of zero sane people 😮‍💨🤬

First sign of the bubble bursting?

So oracle eats its seed corn to build even more fucking data centers rather than accept the risk evaluations of their lenders.

Man, what god damn geniuses over there. I bet they can't wait to have their ghost writers felate them over this decision in their future "autobiographies" that will be for sale at the airport. Oh wait, silly me, there's no ghost writers anymore!

I was just at lunch with family members from around the country, and two of them said that big data centers had recently been turned down by their local politicians.

Oracle is refashioning as a bank

Oh shit the first domino has fallen.

Bla bla national security, bla bla too big to fail, bla bla government bail out, bla bla stock buy back

Wow not only do they plan to lay off tens of thousands, they want customers to help pay for data centers and bring their own hardware. Oracle is acting like they're poor.

Updated2 Feb 2026

guess the cloud free tier is about to get axed...

For any wondering about yet another round of layoffs at Oracle, no, this is the same report from last month, not a new one.

The irony of the article including an option for an AI summary is hilarious.

Normally, if a bubble bursts, you can here a soft "pop". Normally.

when this one bursts? We're gonna start a world war because someone will think the "pop" was a fucking nuke detonation.

I love it. Laying off staff to fund data centers to run AI that people don't want so that other CEOs can lay off more staff.

Why exactly aren't we chopping their heads off and use them as vases? I must have forgotten, I bet there's a good reason.