I’m not poster above but I work at Meta and they are doing this unfortunately. Wish it was a joke.
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But anyhow, you can buy large-ish burlapped trees but they aren’t as healthy, often die, and nothing close to a 100+ yr old estate oak tree or a decades old rose garden. You just can’t make it faster, transplanting plants that old will kill them.
It’s definitely about AI enabled efficiency to some degree. Big internal push to measure and monitor how much people are using AI tools, people being stack ranked on token usage (more = = better). Big push to go to leaner teams so there is less difficulty in partitioning work.
Lots of competing teams fighting for scope in the same areas. Even before this didn’t make sense. At the very least they are hoping fewer people means less communications overhead.
But there is also truly psychotic fervor in AI thinking too. Meta is obviously poorly managed and they are doing the same here too. There is such a strong push and intense layoff fear, that people are chiefly focused on showing vast volume of output to justify their existence. Even if the code itself is unused or unwanted.
My strategy is:
- study/learn and try to be as close as possible to the valuable skills required to keep AI systems improving and working, even more than I am now. Should buy slightly more time than the average dev.
- own a house
- save as much money as possible
- make time to learn a employable physical skill which is AI proof. Won’t share mine but you can figure it out there aren’t that many options that will be left
Oh to be French