Forward looking statements are not now.

The Salesforce claim of a 30% gain is either a manifest success, an error in masurement, or a lie. I really have no way to tell.

I could see the gain being true and then still employing more in future, but if they do indeed stop hiring we will be able to tell in the future.

The future is not now.

Even people inside Salesforce don't know where this number is coming from. I asked some of my blog readers to give me insider intel on this and I only received information that there's no evidence to be seen despite multiple staff asking for clarification internally.

Most of this stuff is very, very transparently a lie.

So its the usual culling just disguised as a different theme, and AI is a convenient scapegoat now while in the same time gloating about how ahead one's company is.

There are real products and good use cases, and then there is this massive hype that can be seen also here on HN. Carefully crafted PR campaigns focusing exactly on sites like this one. Also doesn't seem sustainable cost-wise long term, most companies apart from startups will have hard time accepting paying even 10% of junior salary for such service. Maybe this will change but I doubt so.

2026 is not that far - if he believes that statement their hiring is going to reflect that now.

Basically the industry is pretending like these tools are a guaranteed win and planning accordingly.

Offshoring was supposed to be a win too, then those who went too in on it, lost to those that did not

Personal anecdotal, IBM has never been the same and will never recover