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But what if instead of laying people off - you can expand the project's scope instead? In my country's gamedev community "GTA in our country" is a meme, because
by zirgs 3y ago
But what if instead of laying people off - you can expand the project's scope instead? In my country's gamedev community "GTA in our country" is a meme, because we don't have enough funding and manpower to make a GTA-sized game. But with AI assistance it could be feasible. And big companies like Rockstar, instead of laying people off, could make something truly massive.
The same with movies. We can't make anything like James Cameron's movies. But with AI we could.
- natch 3y agoYES this is absolutely the answer. We can now do very cool and worthwhile things that simply were out of reach before.
- Riverheart 3y agoCounterpoint, companies do what they’ve always done and do more with less because big companies are run by MBAs, not idealists, and startups are difficult to bootstrap and manage.
- zirgs 3y agoBig companies have to compete with other big companies. What if you lay off your employees in order to make a product with a similar scope as before, but your competitor hires more people and expands the scope of their project significantly?
- Riverheart 3y agoConsidering all the big companies laying people off recently, even those with enough capital to retain them, they don’t seem very concerned about that possibility. For what it’s worth I hope you’re right.
- zirgs 3y agoEven after all those layoffs - they still have more employees than before the pandemic.