I don't think an LLM has access to payroll or authority to fire anyone. It just flags and people review. Have you worked in a large organization? Have you ever had to fire anyone, or tried to get someone fired? It's not easy.
There are about 3m employees so this is about 2%.
This is pretty normal course of business for most organizations. Meta laid off 13% of workers in 2022-2023 and an additional 5% in 2025. Other tech companies did similar numbers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_federal_mas...
You normally want to keep the people you promote. You also normally want to keep the people you transferred to that new important project you spun up.
They reason they fired this specific classification is because it was easier to, not because there was any justification to fire them. I thought above you said it's hard to fire people without reason?
https://www.pogo.org/analysis/contractors-and-true-size-of-g...
This is pathetic. In the US, nearly everyone is an "At will" employee. It cannot be legally easy to fire someone.
You can fire your employees because you don't like their shirt. Do you understand that? There is NO REQUIRED REASON to fire nearly anyone in the US.
Meanwhile, for non-at-will employees like federal employees, all you need is "cause", in other words, a bullshit couple "bad" reviews or a PIP or similar.
Do you know why governments don't usually fire people? Because they don't exactly have the most productive employees lining up to work for below market rates.
The government doesn't fire workers because whoever you replace them with (if you even can at all) will likely be just as bad or worse. It's not because "It's hard" and I'm so sick of the whining.