About as bad as the last company I worked at, a VP would say folks who were laid off were "promoted to customers".

This is the type of "dickery" that surpasses all measurements, the one that is, honest to god, trying to be nice.

In short, he's really, REALLY stupid.

Oh yeah Timmy? Who's hiring them in this industry, let alone this economy? Go fuck yourself.

Ai is going to bankrupt a lot of stupid business owners

my company of 50 went down to 22 because of "AI productivity gainz" - then we had the biggest dip in client retention in its 10 year history and those clients that do remain all have massive issues with getting what they want and there are constant "fire drills" to keep them happy.

The greatest employees in the world, for someone else to hire!

Also a stream of game programmers learning basic security concepts and transitioning into cybercrime too hopefully.

They can start with companies they know inner-workings of.

Everytime this dirt bag speaks, I wish I had more Epic accounts to cancel.

He manages to toot his own horn and be completely tone-deaf in a single sentence.

Honestly, I do respect the decision to publicly declare that the laid off employees were very good. I've done job searching while laid off and it does suck the suspicion through which you're viewed by interviewers when they ask about it

The worst part of job hunting was tailoring your reaume to match a job posting for each job....just to try and get by the AI filters and get humans to look at it.

Once i learned how to fool most HR filters, i started to get calls from companies.

Its all a fucking game

He needs to be dropped into a deep well and forgotten.

So he's...bragging about losing talent???

No, employers will REJECT all those great resumes, because they're firing their best people, too.

All this uncontrolled giddiness about AI is entirely, 100% because they are so excited about the opportunity to FIRE as many disgusting human workers as possible. They have already declared the human workforce dead, and they are replacing us ASAP, often before our computerized replacements are even ready.

Remember all those racists chanting about being replaced? It isn't the Jews, or the immigrants, or whatever was in their pea brains, it's the AI/Robotics that absolutely WILL replace us.

Upending the lives of all of these people is actually a GOOD thing for the industry. ~ Tim Sweeney

Bragging about leaving people who deserve better jobless, avoiding the use of humanizing language (mentions the resumes, makes sure not to mention "quality" people).

employers LLM screening bots will see (and swiftly reject) a stream of résumés (regardless) of once-in-a-lifetime quality

It really didn't take him long to spend what little goodwill he got for punching Apple in the mouth.

Right up there with the 30000 from Amazon.

Yes because everyone who got laid off is seeing once in a lifetime opportunities and not a lot of automated rejections based off of crappy LLM setups.

"I worked on the team that implemented Vulkan support for Unreal Engine 5, and have created over 200 shaders for AAA retail games."

"Sir, this is a Wendy's"

Living it right now. Me: "We've sold off or had resignations from ¾ of our engineering" Boss: "We'll rebuild".

Also Boss: "Our value is in our people".

Another brilliant CEO decision that is definitely worth his massive pay.

The EGO on this man "because I hired all of these people, they're amazing. Pay no attention to the fact that I had to lay 1k of them off due to poor planning."

If they're so talented and experienced, then why'd you fire them for no reason? Surely the company expects to continue growing and will need more employees, not fewer.

No, more like the data crunching algorithms that ingest and evaluate the resumes will fine tune down to determining some kind of pattern or set of patterns, which describes what skill sets Epic apparently no longer needs.

Then, that data will be sold to some business intelligence / market strategy development consultant, who will then adjust their advice that they give to other tech clients.

Sweeney also fully knows this is what will happen.

Because he has similar consultants or perhaps an inhouse team, going over the same kind of data, that told him to let all these people go.

None of these C suite types actually do any advanced, in depth, strategic planning.

They have the BI guys write those up for them, like how the military has a set of potential war plans to be followed or activated when some set of cinditions are triggered, or a General decides its time to do it, or w/e.

The C suite folk, they're literally just a big social club, all they do is collude with or against other C suites.

Like... that's how this actually works.

It would be immensely easier and generate huge savings for big firms to automate their C suites, not the actual specialists or team leads with deep systemic and specific knowledge.

They're the most expensive employees, by far, and they are the most likely to act irrationally, with outsized negative impacts on the whole business.

... But thats not the point.

The point... is to pamper the C suite people's egos and wallets.

Yep.

That is the actual ultimate end goal.

Its a rigid class system, with an incompetent and haughty nobility... that just kind of pretends to not be that.

Techno-feudalism.

He doesn't say that they're good quality. Just, once in a lifetime quality. Interpretation is up the reader.