<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Layoffs on A Blog for the Uninitialized</title><link>https://www.nilpointer.blog/tags/layoffs/</link><description>Recent content in Layoffs on A Blog for the Uninitialized</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><copyright>&lt;a href="https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Licensed under Apache 2.0&lt;/a&gt;</copyright><lastBuildDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:47:15 -0700</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.nilpointer.blog/tags/layoffs/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>A word about company loyalty</title><link>https://www.nilpointer.blog/posts/2026/04/a-word-about-company-loyalty/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:47:15 -0700</pubDate><guid>https://www.nilpointer.blog/posts/2026/04/a-word-about-company-loyalty/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Early in my career, I was given a great piece of advice. Advice that I&amp;rsquo;ve recently lost track of following, unfortunately.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;You can be as loyal as you want to a company, they will never be loyal back.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;I think it goes without saying in today&amp;rsquo;s environment, but I think it&amp;rsquo;s important to reiterate again.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Today, Oracle laid off 30,000 employees, many of whom have been there 30 or more years!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Jensen Huang on AI Layoffs</title><link>https://www.nilpointer.blog/posts/2026/03/jensen-huang-on-ai-layoffs/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:56:02 -0700</pubDate><guid>https://www.nilpointer.blog/posts/2026/03/jensen-huang-on-ai-layoffs/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is my commentary from a blog post I found &lt;a href="https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/out-of-ideas-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-dismisses-ai-job-loss-fears-blames-recent-layoffs-on-lack-of-imagination-11773995361646.html"
 
 
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&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jensen Huang is the current CEO for Nvidia, the man being credited with taking the company to stratopheric heights in the last 10 years. This is mainly because Nvidia creates the best GPUs that are used in the core model training algorithms for anything AI related.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What I wanted to quickly write about was about something he said during a recent interview with Jim Cramer (yes, &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; Jim Cramer) that reasonated with me.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>