Jensen Huang Just Told Every CEO Hiding Behind AI Layoffs to Shut Up

jqpabc123

So it's OK to do it --- just don't talk about it?

carterschonwald

“sit with it a moment” or similar phrases is one of the more common anthropic tells ive seen. ughh

samsari

This is no specific comment on the article or its contents. But I am getting extremely tired of headlines that follow the "X just Y (and it changes everything you thought you knew about Z)" pattern.

stephc_int13

The reality is that many CEOs don't really know what they are doing. The disruption is not following their playbook. When faced with uncertainty we tend to look at past examples, the industrial revolution, the internet, electrification, etc. I think it is a weak predictor. We don't know. But I have the feeling that it is going to be worse before it is getting better. There are huge signs of capital misallocation and public sentiment backlash, the curve ahead seems likely to look a lot more like a roller coaster than a smooth ride.

drillsteps5

Direct quote: >We have covered this math before. The $725 billion that Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta are spending on AI infrastructure in 2026 has to come from somewhere. For many companies, the somewhere is headcount. Not because AI replaced the work. Because the budget line got moved to a different row on a spreadsheet. So "headcount" (because that's what we call people) is being cut because of crazy spending on genAI infrastructure (part of which btw goes to Mr Hwang's company). Or, if you're not a hyperscaler, crazy spending on tools/tokens. But no, you should NOT tie reductions in "headcount" to genAI. That's "irresponsible" and "lazy". Did I get that right?

Markoff

this is the actual source for the article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48290427

jauntywundrkind

Watching Jensen stick his junk in it and say again and again and again the PC market is going to be crushed forever and eve and ever and him being delighted about it feels barely any better. It's way way longer a video than feels useful, but there's quite the stream of quotes from Jensen relishing in fucking over everyone except the titanscalers, with gleefully predictions it will destroy every other form of computing forever. https://youtu.be/zyQwAhppWj8