> lol, might have been good to conduct this study BEFORE making that decision

Why?

First, they wanted to do a layoff for financial reasons (and they did), secondly they came up with a reason for the layoffs (aside from the truth, which is needing to make more profit per employee, because growth).

LLMs are a convenient scapegoat for firing decent employees just because you want your other ones to work harder so you can return more cash to shareholders.