Microsoft Corp.’s recently announced job cuts fell hardest on the people who build the company’s products, showing that even software developers are at risk in the age of artificial intelligence.

Nearly 50% of the employee layoffs at Microsoft’s Washington office affected staff in software engineering roles, as the company has started to rely more on

In Washington state, software engineers made up more than 40 per cent of the roughly 2,000 positions cut. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Microsoft let go of 2,000 underperforming employees without severance. The retrenchment had also affected staff in the gaming and sales divisions. The recent layoffs are not on the grounds of performance,