Inside Google & Amazon: What AI is really doing to tech jobs?

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We all know what a brutal year it’s been for tech. Layoffs. Restructures. Hiring Freezes.

In 2025 alone, over 61,000 tech jobs have been cut across over 130 companies. That includes:

• Microsoft, which laid off 6,000 people while pouring billions in AI.

• Google, which cut 200 more jobs last month

• Amazon, which trimmed 100 jobs, shifting focus from Alexa and Kindle to cloud and AI.

So… does this mean AI is coming to take your job? Not exactly. But it’s not a simple yes or no either.

For one, AI isn’t coming. It’s already here. Second, it’s not here to take your job. It’s changing the way your job is done.

Today at Google, about 30% of new code is suggested by AI and then reviewed by engineers.

At Amazon, developers are spending less time writing code and more time editing, validating, and integrating what AI produces. They’ve recently rolled out their own AI tools that can generate large portions of a program on their own.

Even researchers at Microsoft have concluded that programmers who used an AI coding assistant, which proposes snippets of code that programmers can accept or reject, boosted coding output by more than 25 percent.

But that still doesn’t mean coding is dead, or that developers don’t matter.

What it means is the role is evolving, and you have to evolve with it.

So develop your critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills because in a world where AI can code, the real opportunity lies in being the person who can connect the dots, define what problems are worth solving, decide when to trust AI, and bring creativity and judgment to the table.

How Australia’s richest person actually got that rich?

I know you don’t know her, but you should. This is Gina Rinehart, and she is Australia’s richest person by a country mile.

Her current net worth is over $38 billion, and that’s after a $2 billion drop due to lower iron ore prices.

Okay so how the hell did she get that rich?

It goes back to 1992 when her father passed away and left her the family business, Hancock Prospecting. The company was pretty much on the edge, loads of debt, barely any assets. But it did have one thing going for it:

A royalty deal with Rio Tinto. They were mining iron ore on land tied to the family and paying royalties for it.

That income helped her keep the business alive. Then Gina got to work. She launched massive iron ore projects like Roy Hill and Hope Downs, turning the company into a mining juggernaut. Today, those mines generate billions in revenue every year.

By 2006, she’d made her first billion. Today, her company makes about $5 billion a year in profit, which frankly is more than the GDP of Greenland.
(Yes, that same Greenland that a certain someone once tried to buy.)

But mining isn’t where it ends. She’s gone full empire mode, investing in lithium, coal, natural gas, cattle, and so much land that she could basically start her own country.

Once again, watch out Greenland!