500 to 600 IT jobs gone at GM as of yesterday. Warren, Austin, gone. This is the third major workforce action in less than a year if you count October's salaried cuts and the Factory Zero situation in March. The company line is that they are transforming the IT organization and realigning skills for the future. That is always the language. What it actually means is that they over-hired for an EV transformation that did not materialize on the timeline they sold to investors, and now they are right-sizing in waves so the quarterly impact looks manageable. The people let go are real. Some of them built systems that are still running. The reorg narrative is cleaner than the reality.
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Sounds good.
Sounds good.
GM thinks AI will be able to…
GM thinks AI will be able to do the same thing humans can do. Just dumb.
The real issue the thread is…
The real issue the thread is pointing at is not whether AI can do these jobs. It is that GM has now run three major headcount actions in under twelve months and the stated rationale keeps changing. October was about efficiency. March was about EV realignment. Now it is AI transformation. When the story keeps shifting, the actual story is that the financial targets require a lower cost structure and leadership is cycling through whatever narrative is most defensible in the moment. The people being let go built internal systems, processes, and institutional knowledge that does not transfer. Some of what they built is still holding the company together right now.
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