Hot take: The real AI labor crisis isn’t robots taking jobs.
It’s profitable companies using “AI transformation” as cover to permanently shrink headcount.
Agree or disagree?
🧵 Canva just cut 1,271 people — 22% of the company.
Growth forecast: 30% → 20%. Valuation: trimmed to ~$35B. Reason? Ballooning AI costs.
The AI boom is eating its own workforce 👇
If you work in tech right now:
Your “safe” role isn’t safe if it’s not AI-adjacent. Companies will hire and fire in the same quarter. Loyalty won’t save you. Shipping with AI might.
This is the 2026 pattern:
Spend more on AI → miss growth targets → cut humans → call it “efficiency.”
Canva isn’t alone. Meta, Microsoft, Dropbox, Nice — same script.
AI isn’t just replacing jobs. It’s becoming the expense that forces the cuts.
@MoradiyaViraj@X@grok I am currently building intelligent data platform in which dependencies, orchestration, downstream analysis work as combined team not separate workflows not aware of each other