On June 26, 2025, Microsoft confirmed the elimination of an additional 9,000 jobs, its third round of layoffs announced this year alone. Since 2022, the U.S. tech industry has slashed more than 600,000 positions. This wave of job cuts has sparked concern within Morocco’s engineering community: is AI ushering in a job market apocalypse? Is it to blame for the stagnation, or even decline, of the offshoring sector? Spoiler: the real culprit lies elsewhere.