Continuing the chronicle of the IT market reshaping. If you thought that the cases of Oracle (where 30,000 engineers were forced to train AI models and then thrown out in the cold to save on bonuses) and Coinbase were isolated incidents, then no. There are more and more reports of layoffs.

And they are not even laying off for cost reasons.

Last week, Cloudflare cut 20% of its workforce (more than 1,100 people). They are doing great with profits, stocks were rising. But CEO Matthew Prince directly states: this is not due to bad performance reviews or lack of money. It is a transition to an "agentic AI-first operating model." In three months, their internal use of AI grew 6 times, and processes were restructured so that a fifth of employees simply became a rudiment. Their tasks are now handled by agents.

You might say: "Well, that's Cloudflare, they're in Silicon Valley, they're just messing around."
Okay, let's look at the real sector. General Motors just cut more than 10% of its IT department (about 600 people). And immediately opened hiring for the same positions but with different requirements. Who are they looking for? AI-native engineers, data engineers, pipeline development and model tuning specialists. As insiders emphasize: they need people who can build AI systems from scratch, not those who just use ChatGPT as an advanced StackOverflow or a plugin in an IDE.

Are you preparing?