Kai Riemer
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 10 Jul
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Who really chopped off Chopper's ears?
Probably.
In two different ways, right?
On the one hand, AI is being used in software development itself.
Now we've seen cuts across many IT software, software as a service companies, um, but they were much smaller, usually around five to ten percent, seven percent is what Meta cut and a few others at Lassian, which is sort of a some people said it was more like a cyclical
reaction because we've, you know, sort of gorged up on STEM talent for quite a while, as you said, during COVID and qu a bit of a boom in software as a service.
So part natural correction a little bit around AI, but software development is changing, but this doesn't explain a twenty percent cut.
And what is happening here is that the industry is facing lots of cost pressures.
And the cost pressures right now are coming from an uptick in hardware prices, especially storage and RAM, so memory.
It used to be GPUs that were really expensive and they're still not cheap.
But the latest impact of the AI boom, meaning building big data centers, inference machines.
People are buying Mac Minis and lots of computers to run agents on, has uh played out in uh storage and in RAM.
And if you're building a console, which is sort of very tightly packed.
um hardware, uh what you pay for those components is quite significant.
So consoles, PCs, all the hardware is going up.
That goes towards affordability.
Affordability is not great in the economy right now at any anyway.
So you know demand for um games might uh drop or you know gamers might make more cost conscious decisions which
impacts the industry, which then impacts the economic decisions that the industry has to make.
Hence that might explain in a roundabout indirect way some of those cuts.
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