It's actually incredible how much headlines there are regarding OpenAI--how much cap they're raising, the ins and outs of their corporate structure, how much that psychopath will be compensated--yet very little on what they've actually shipped.
Climate change is real but its effects are overblown. Weeping for a glacier that would of melted a few years later regardless of public opinion seems insufficient
I’m open to listening to Climate Scientist that considers Astrophysics as a factor. The rest can keep their pseudoscience to themselves as far as I’m concerned.
Watching WFH tech evangelists being sincerely stunned that GloboTechInc fired them over email (gasp) is not just ironic, but should be instructive.
What did you guys think would happen?
That the company who hired you to build a surveillance monopoly on the internet was going to look out for your best interests?
On a long enough timeline, many SWEs will engineer their job out of existence. Those left over will have to compete with the mythical 10x engineer and the latest AGI shitbot that can debug code all day long without ever having to take a bathroom break, or maternity leave.
To those affected: don’t capitulate to, or engage with the pity machine. It’s all cope. Those jobs, that headcount, is never coming back.
Take your skills and go build something you actually have true equity in.
