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Yes, if your code is worthless and no one (including yourself) will read it again.

long term consequences of running an H1B gulag and underpaying relative to industry

More info needed but for 5k you can get a near maxed mbp that should be able to handle most models, perform pretty well, and also serve as your laptop so it’s not a pure AI box. Then if you have heavier needs go to the cloud.

Trump haters in absolute shambles here.

Someone remind me what value business people add to society?

This would be (and essentially has been) a good sci fi premise.

Best option quit and join a real company.

Not wrong, but dumb. Your company now probably legally owns everything on your laptop.

Anything that keeps the code monkeys in line is legal.

Yes quite bad clearly worst since 2008 if not worse.

It’s clearly a dumb gimmick for a dumb and gimmicky country.

It’s a way to “keep to code monkeys happy” that doesn’t involve paying them more or actually making them happy.

Lmao no what a clown show company.

Communication.

Time for a promotion!

Absolutely nothing. (In best case scenarios.) They’re the lowest IQ people in the org, so let’s put them in charge. “Which company do you work for? A major one.”

Sadly this seems universal in Big Tech.

The incompetence level in the industry has increased. In the past perhaps more people were close to being technical. Now there is a deluge of nontechnical positions and management layers that contribute nothing. This increases cynicism.

It just works and is closer to programming than writing god awful html.

Yes just make up something to fill the time.

$22B to $0 for what should have been a high margin business is bad. What’s the story here?

What’s the purpose of these VC puff pieces? Subtly pump the values of their portcos by raising their exec profiles?

Pretty much everyone knows this …

Just grug it out

Dumb people are the best customers.

See if your investors need and manager types at their portcos. Or see if you can get a junior EM role at big tech.

Paying code monkeys fair wages ain’t a good way to get rich …

How can I get this gig at Google? I’m willing to not work for mid to high six figures.

Dude just have them build legos or something.

Try to get some help from your investors on the acquihire, if you have professional investors.

Btw 1.5 months likely not enough time to close a deal, need to be pulling alarm levers now.

Does this apply to Cloudfront requests also?