{"id":957363,"date":"2025-08-25T11:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=957363"},"modified":"2025-08-25T11:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T06:00:09","slug":"amazon-web-services-head-matt-garman-laying-off-engineers-for-ai-is-the-dumbest-thing-companies-are-doing-because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/25\/amazon-web-services-head-matt-garman-laying-off-engineers-for-ai-is-the-dumbest-thing-companies-are-doing-because\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Web Services head Matt Garman: Laying off engineers for AI is the dumbest thing companies are doing because\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman has delivered a sharp rebuke to companies replacing junior employees with artificial intelligence, calling it &#8220;one of the dumbest things I&#8217;ve ever heard&#8221; during a recent podcast appearance. The cloud computing executive warned that such strategies could devastate future talent pipelines while overlooking junior workers&#8217; superior AI adoption skills.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the &#8220;Matthew Berman&#8221; podcast Tuesday, Garman emphasised that entry-level employees represent the most cost-effective workforce segment and demonstrate the highest engagement with AI tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman has delivered a sharp rebuke to companies replacing junior employees with artificial intelligence, calling it &#8220;one of the dumbest things I&#8217;ve ever heard&#8221; during a recent podcast appearance. The cloud computing executive warned that such strategies could devastate future talent pipelines while overlooking junior workers&#8217; superior AI adoption skills. Speaking on the &#8220;Matthew Berman&#8221; podcast Tuesday, Garman emphasised that entry-level employees represent the most cost-effective workforce segment and demonstrate the highest engagement with AI tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}