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1. cmrdpo+56[view] [source] 2023-11-20 03:06:39
>>maxuti+(OP)
Can't find the article right now, but there was one circulating that heavily implied that various SV execs began their rounds of layoffs last fall at least partially or probably inspired by the demos they'd seen of OpenAI's tech.

Microsoft in particular laid off 10,000 and then immediately turned around and invested billions more in OpenAI: https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/microsoft-bets-bill... -- last fall, just as the timeline laid out in the Atlnatic article was firing up.

In that context this timeline is even more nauseating. Not only did OpenAI push ChatGPT at the expense of their own mission and their employee's well-being, they likely caused massive harm to our employment sector and the well-being of tens of thousands of software engineers in the industry at large.

Maybe those layoffs would have happened anyways, but the way this all has rolled out and the way it's played out in the press and in the board rooms of the BigTech corporations... OpenAI is literally accomplishing the opposite of its supposed mission. And now it's about to get worse.

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2. jprete+I6[view] [source] 2023-11-20 03:12:32
>>cmrdpo+56
I read a profile recently of an AI consultant for CEOs who mentioned in the interview that the CEOs all want to know when they can lay people off.

I really don’t understand how tech people are so spectacularly naive.

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3. cmrdpo+37[view] [source] 2023-11-20 03:17:02
>>jprete+I6
They were all making fun of Google for being "behind", when in reality it came down to there being more cautionary voices within Google around this stuff. Not cautionary enough, and they did and now are doing some terribly douchey things (the incident with Timnit Gebru was one of the early warnings there) but they did seem like they were trying to keep at least some of the Jinn corked up.

I actually don't think these execs can replace us with LLMs, but the hype volcano certainly made them think they could. Which says more about the shit understanding they have of what their SWE staff does more than anything else.

Idiots hired like crazy during COVID, and then were surprised that 9 women couldn't make a baby in 1 month... and now they think "AI" is going to fix this for them.

I need a new career.

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