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Part of Zucks plan to stop hiring mid-level engineers this year (as he said on JRE)?

I am very very skeptical of this idea - what do you all think?

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Who are we to doubt Zuckerbergs judgement when his last big pivot to the Metaverse was such a success? Let him cook.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/22/mark-zuckerberg-envisions-1-...

You mean the one he took "personal responsibility" for, while laying off >10000 people and conveniently still having a job for himself?

"But make no mistake. Though they're the ones leaving, it is I who must remain and bear the heavy burden of their failure." ~GB

"Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make." - Lord Farquad

Imagine if avatar Gavin Belson had done the "metaverse legs" product reveal, with the animation running at 10 frames/second and a few legless avatars in the audience throwing up confetti. It would be almost too ridiculous to put in the show because the show itself would look like it was being cheap with the effects. But Meta had spent $36 billion on the metaverse at this point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njvp-E8gzqA

Who do you think foreshadowed masculine energy coming back to tech?

GB, with the Box 3 Gavin Belson Signature Edition?

Or Russ Hanneman, with... everything?

(Or was it Jared, with Russ being right about him?)

Ed Chambers (before he was fired, of course)

This guy fucks

The "Silicon Valley" show had many brilliant moments.

Zuck will demand accountibility from his employees while being subject to none himself because of the ownership structure of meta.

I think that if they truly go through with this (and others follow suit), consulting is going to be eating good for the next 5-10 years. So much slop to be called in to clean up.

It's 100% absolute bullshit. We've seen the tests, it can barely replace a low skilled job. Who's going to prompt these AI tools to do stuff and who's going to correct the bugs AI introduces? Zuck is high on steroids.

I assume that it's just the standard line that is fed to shareholders.

Shareholders like "we're cutting labor because of AI adoption" much more than "we're cutting labor to save costs and cull some deadend r&d". While both are fiscally positive, one gives off vibes of growth and innovation while the other doesn't.

he didn't say he was going to stop hiring them, he said that AI would perform at a similar ability

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