AI is coming for your job. Just ask Microsoft

Humans: Out. Software: In.

Microsoft just fired 9,000 people — again. That’s 4% of its global workforce, and the third major round of layoffs in just six months.
If you’re keeping track, the total since January? Over 7% of the entire company.

And no, they didn’t say “it’s because of AI” — but let’s not kid ourselves.
One third of Microsoft’s code is now written by software. Not by developers. Not by humans.

Oh, and 40% of the people laid off in May were software engineers. Coincidence?

“Performance-related reasons”? Please.

The official line is always the same: “restructuring”, “agility”, “performance”. But behind the scenes?
Microsoft is dumping people while spending $80 billion on AI infrastructure.
Because the future they’re betting on doesn’t need you — just your job description and some GPU time.

Welcome to the AI Hunger Games

This isn’t just about Microsoft.
Amazon’s CEO Andy Jassy literally told employees: yeah, AI is making us more efficient, and that means fewer of you.
In case you missed it, Amazon cut 27,000 jobs last year and is still trimming.

White-collar jobs — developers, project managers, data analysts — are no longer safe.
The AI revolution isn’t coming. It’s here. And it’s coming for the middle class.

But hey, Wall Street loves it

Microsoft’s stock is up. The cloud business is booming.
So what if a few thousand people are out of work?
In tech land, shareholders eat first.