GM Lays Off 600 IT Workers in Direct AI Skills Swap — Hiring for Agent Development, Prompt Engineering, Model Training

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General Motors cut ~600 salaried IT employees (10%+ of the department) in Austin and Warren, explicitly to backfill with AI-native talent. New roles target AI-native development, agent and model development, prompt engineering, data engineering, and cloud-based engineering. This isn't a headcount reduction — it's a workforce replacement. GM is hiring people who build AI systems from scratch, not people who use AI tools. The third major IT workforce action in 18 months signals a permanent shift in enterprise tech hiring patterns.