Remember my series of posts (one, two) about how the decade-old “learn to code” movement has become horribly dated?
A couple of months ago, Dhanush N wrote a piece for Developers Global after Oracle’s layoff of 30,000 employees. Much of the post is only available to Medium subscribers, but the beginning is visible to all.
And it’s not a feel-good beginning.
“They told you to learn to code. You did. They told you to upskill. You did. They told you to embrace AI. You did. Then they used the system you helped build to replace you.“
Since that layoff, it’s been revealed that companies ended up overspending on AI.
Before the bot takeover, Oracle moved…twice
Wonder what the conversations are within Oracle’s California Texas halls right now.
And within Texas government, which previously issued statements such as this.
“In a statement, Gov. Greg Abbott welcomed Oracle’s relocation to Texas and credited the state’s business-friendly climate, low taxes and strong workforce for what he called the “tidal wave” of businesses relocating to Texas.”
Of course, even before everyone not named Ellison at Oracle was replaced by a bot, Texas found out that it wasn’t the big winner after all.
“In 2021, a Tennessee panel approved $65 million in state incentives for Oracle, with the company planning to bring 8,500 jobs and an investment topping $1 billion to Nashville over a decade. Then-Mayor John Cooper’s office announced that the company, currently based in Austin, Texas, planned to build the new campus with 1.2 million square feet (111,400 square meters) of office space….
“Frist, a doctor and businessman, asked Ellison why Nashville was chosen. Ellison, whose company bought electronic medical records company Cerner in 2022, called the city “a health center.”
“”We’re moving this huge campus, which will ultimately be our world headquarters,” Ellison said. “We’re moving that to Nashville.”
“Ellison then joked that he “shouldn’t have said that.””
But where will Oracle’s workforce (either bots or a return to flesh-and-blood) reside in 2028? Qatar? India? We’ll see.
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