Layoffs or an AI pivot? It's hard to tell the difference now

Last year, Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes said that his company would have more engineers working for it in five years than it did then.

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Am I getting laid off, or is my company announcing a big AI pivot?

These days, it's probably a bit of both.

A weird thing is happening in Corporate America....