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points by rvz 1 day ago | 0 comments

They are not forcing you to do anything. In fact, companies like Microsoft want you to leave and go on strike forever.

These companies don't care and are too busy building homes (data centers) for agents.

What they are telling you is that you have no leverage against them since they will just replace you with 1 person with 100+ agents.

> So please, join me in my strike for one week of your choice in November 2026

You are free to leave your job and play GTA 6 in November.

[–] ironmagma 1 day ago

> Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative. [1]

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[–] rvz 1 day ago

Nope, he is free to do whatever. I am just telling the truth and looking at where the money (potentially the salaries of tens of thousands of workers) is going. [0]

Tech Giants Double Down on Their Massive AI Spending [0]

Google, Meta and Microsoft boost AI spending forecasts [1]

Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce [2]

I am telling you that these companies don't care about human (tech) workers striking, since they are too busy spending that money on data centers for AI agents.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/tech-giants-double-down-on-their...

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/b934037d-7fc6-4f93-acdf-a3ec75f45...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50245524

[–] ironmagma 1 day ago

So you honestly think one of the largest and most powerful AI-enabled corporations on planet earth is being stopped from firing these people because of a technicality or two on the books? Why hasn't it happened already?

[–] curiousaboutml 1 day ago

> What they are telling you is that you have no leverage against them since they will just replace you with 1 person with 100+ agents.

I'm not one to deny that current AI models can take you quite far along. But you know they can't replace all of us with LLMs yet. Strikes work if enough of us do it, that's why I made this post. And if you believe LLMs will eventually be able to indeed replace millions of engineers, then it's better that we strike now rather than in the future.

But honestly, I have no beef with AI technology specifically or people using it. This is all about being ethical, distributing the fruits of work equally.