Ford just rehired 300 human engineers

According to the BBC Ford just rehired 300 human engineers.

So is this a win for human experts?

Unfortunately for us cloud professionals, it looks like they were not coders/server infrastructure experts.

But I am curious to see if this trend continues in more spaces.

I have been skeptical of the tech layoffs that claimed they were downsizing because of AI productivity.

It seems much more feasible that these tech companies over-hired during the early part of this decade and just don’t want to admit they need to pull back for financial reasons.

Perhaps I am just being cynical.

What do you think?