Starbucks CTO resigned Monday amid tech revamp(reuters.com)
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Starbucks CTO resigned Monday amid tech revamp
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/starbucks-cto-resigned-monday-interim-named-2025-09-26/
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> Starbucks’ February layoffs of 1,100 corporate employees hit the IT team particularly hard, a source familiar with the matter said Thursday. They said an outside contractor named Tata Consultancy Services, based in India, has been given an increasing role in Starbucks IT division.
Well, why not? IT is a cost center after all /s
Finally some leadership that knows forcing AI slop on their workforce is destroying people's sanity.
(I've worked in machine learning for 20 years, AI has its place but CEOs don't understand what that place is)
(I've worked in machine learning for 20 years, AI has its place but CEOs don't understand what that place is)
Its place is in shit like recommendation algorithms and giving rewards and incentives to customers, not store operations. When will they learn :\