It's depressing to see logic and reasoning in discussion replaced with name-calling and tribalism.

"You're on the side of the <insert pejorative descriptive here>" should rarely (if ever) be a valid rebuttal.

Yeah but the CEOs said it, so it must be true.

Nothing they said is a defense of anything.

I work with AI every day. It can do some amazing narrowly focused things and the ability to do so is a bit terrifying. But it (still) loses its mind and goes wackadoodledoo when faced with the nonlinearity of a typical employee's day job. Therefore, attributing these layoffs to AI means TLAs are idiots or it's cover for getting rid of people that should have never been hired, or maybe both?