Tagged: work-culture

Arnav Gupta:

But the truth is that these layoffs, even if they they are not because AI is replacing you, and even if they are some form of AI-washing. These layoffs are still because of AI. And these layoffs will continue till we learn to use AI. Till we learn to convert AI-tokens into outcomes and not just input. Till we learn to re-align the speed of "alignment" with the new speed of coding. And till we figure out, beyond our 2 good and 8 stupid ideas, 10 more ideas that we can chase with our increased productivity.

This is a very refreshing take on the layoffs in large tech companies. It’s the best take I’ve read on this.

Denis Stetskov:

Five to ten years from now, we’ll need senior engineers. People who understand systems end to end, who can debug distributed failures at 2 AM, who carry institutional knowledge that exists nowhere in the codebase. Those engineers don’t exist yet because we’re not creating them. The juniors who should be learning right now are either not being hired or developing what a DoD-funded workforce study calls “AI-mediated competence.” They can prompt an AI. They can’t tell you what the AI got wrong.

Ignore the click-baity title. This is a well-written and well-argued post on how the software industry might be hurtling towards a grim future, the kind of present that the West’s defence industry has found itself in as an unexpected war broke out between Ukraine & Russia.

Mo Bitar:

What we do is because the deal is so damn good, we change ourselves to make that deal acceptable.

And what I've figured out now is that I'm unwilling to change myself to make that deal acceptable.

I could feel the emotions as I watched the video. Well worth the time.