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I often wonder how different AI sentiment would be today if all of the layoffs that were opportunistically blamed on AI by the company CEOs were instead blamed on the real reason (likely pandemic related over hiring). The root of the backlash started as a result of all those “AI” layoffs and the hyperscaler CEOs gloating how everybody was going to lose their job due to AI. So in the end, they reap what they sow. A growing backlash that is not going away anytime soon.

One thing about LinkedIn that profoundly bothered me when it got popular was the fact that you were expected to share a photo on your profile. Back in the day, in the US, attaching a photo to a resume was a big no-no, but here was a new way of recruiting that circumvented that principle. I found it shocking how readily and eagerly people threw that convention out.