Meta Is Firing 15,000 People to Buy $135 Billion in GPUs. Stock Went Up 3%.

Meta is cutting 20% of its workforce. Fifteen thousand people. The reason? They need $135 billion for AI infrastructure. The stock went up 3%. Wall Street loves it when you fire humans to buy GPUs. This is the same playbook running on repeat. In 2021, Zuckerberg bet $46 billion on the metaverse - the same metaverse that lost billions and nobody uses. In 2023, the "year of efficiency" cost 21,000 people their jobs. Now in 2025, $135 billion committed to AI and another 15,000 fired. Every two years a new shiny thing. Fire people, stock goes up, repeat. The ROI on the AI bet? Nobody can tell you. It is all projections. All future promises. What AI cannot do is the more interesting question. Judgment - knowing what not to build. Context - understanding why the business makes certain decisions. Saying no - pushing back when a bad idea is about to break compliance. These are the skills that make engineers irreplaceable. Eight years in DevOps, zero major outages. I reduced deployment time by 70% and freed 85% of team time through automation. No model replaces the judgment that comes from knowing when not to deploy. The 264,000 projected job cuts by December 2026 is the headline…