[joshuawright11]

Since the CEO / founders have already "resigned", this feels like GM is moving towards winding down the company or at the very least strongly re-thinking their commitment to backing this long term.

Getting to FSD is probably moving a lot slower than they hoped and it's looking more and more like it will be another decade (or multiple) until a self driving company can turn a dime of profit. GM doesn't strike me as a particularly innovative company so the idea of a decades long moonshot probably isn't very appealing to them.

The dragging / lying to regulators incident was bad but axing the founders / CEO seems like it would have been enough if GM were excited about the company long term.

[pavon]

I disagree. The cuts are focused on commercial operations roles, not engineering. I see this as a sign that the adults have entered the room, and realized more work is needed to get the technology ready for commercial use rather than trying to prematurely skip to the end to keep up appearances with Waymo.

[AlotOfReading]

The press release says the cuts were focused on operations, but that doesn't mean engineering was unaffected. Even the functional safety related teams were affected.