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You mention that your team is profitable and your client retention is high: this suggests a very particular type of business. Could it be that the nature of yo
by wepple 3y ago
You mention that your team is profitable and your client retention is high: this suggests a very particular type of business.
Could it be that the nature of your work is well suited to remote work? Perhaps you’re delivering fairly well-known outputs or have really mature processes around getting work done?
It would be interesting to ponder some of the worlds greatest creations and timelines they were created on, if folks had all been remote. Could the transistor have been created if your physicist and mathematician were both sitting at a slack screen?
- hackernewds 3y agoThe opposite argument. Could AI advancements have accelerated if your ML engineers had to live in a crumbling city spending 25% of their work hours commuting and preparing to commute?
- wepple 3y ago> Could AI advancements have accelerated Can you point to the data that shows AI engineers work remotely or from an office? > live in a crumbling city spending 25% of their work hours commuting and preparing to commute You’re clearly showing some bias here. Sorry that you’ve had bad experiences with cities, but it’s not useful to project that on to blanket arguments
- Xenoamorphous 3y ago> Can you point to the data that shows AI engineers work remotely or from an office? I guess he’s implying that a lot of that progress happened in 2020 and 2021, a time period where very few prople worked in an office.
- jckahn 3y agoProbably not, but also modern day plumbers can’t really WFH either. I didn’t notice any implication that _every_ role can be done from home successfully, but many software engineering roles definitely can.
- wepple 3y agoPlumbers have a 100% location-dependent job role by its very nature. Inventing the transistor* or the next leap in LLMs are both knowledge work, so could both be performed remotely *of course, there was a ton of actual science experimentation and lab work that needed physical presence, but my understanding of the key interactions between team members is that the key collaboration didn’t require physical presence
- Spivak 3y agoI know this one! Yes. One of my good friends is a senior electrical engineer who designs components for cern and during covid (and still) they told everyone to take all their equipment home and so his second bedroom is a a full on lab. They've never stopped launching new products.
- tikhonj 3y agoCould something like Linux have ever developed and matured without the entire Linux team sitting in the Linux office?
- visarga 3y agoBut how would they git stuff done?!