This fails when the hype doesn’t meet reality - shift back to cashiers from self-service checkouts as an example.
I think we’ll see something similar in AI where many companies will have over rotated and will end up rehiring sales, marketing and other roles that we thought AI could replace.
Except in this case it is like laying off the factory workers at the robot factory before the robots are built. Investing in AI still means investing in tech people to work on AI, but that's who just got laid off...
One might be inclined to think that it is a freeing up of dead weight accumulated during the COVID hiring spree, but we also know of industry-recognized people deemed very talented, who should be prime candidates for AI investment, that were let go, so...
There are a small number of CS-degree holding software engineers or statistical expert data scientists who can pivot into AI with a fairly direct application of their existing education and experience, but the vast majority of people who were laid off from "tech companies" do not have that background.
They replied something in the lines of "we sent your considerations to the department concerning buyings these things. We'll let you know" and then they didn't let me know