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When Google announced their big layoffs, I noted the timing in relation to some big AI announcements. People here told me I was crazy for suggesting that corpor

by chabes 2y ago

When Google announced their big layoffs, I noted the timing in relation to some big AI announcements. People here told me I was crazy for suggesting that corporations could replace employees with AI this early. Now the CEO is confirming that more than a quarter of new code is created by AI. Can’t really deny that reality anymore folks.

akira2501 2y ago
> Can’t really deny that reality anymore folks. You have to establish that the CEO is actually aware of the reality and is interested in accurately conveying that to you. As far as I can tell there is absolutely no reason to believe any part of this.
paradox242 2y ago
When leaders without the requisite technical knowledge are making decisions then the question of whether AI is capable of replacing human workers is orthogonal to the question of whether human workers will be replaced by AI.
hbn 2y ago
I'd suggest the bigger factor in those layoffs is the money was made in earlier covid years where money was flowing and everyone was overhiring to show off record growth, then none of those employees had any justification for being kept around and were just a money sink so they fired them all. Not to mention Elon publicly demonstrated losing 80% of staff when he took over twitter and - you can complain about his management all you want - as someone who's been using it the whole way through, from a technical POV their downtimes and software quality has not been any worse and they're shipping features faster. A lot of software companies are overstaffed, especially Google who has spent years paying people to make projects just to get a PO promoted, then letting the projects rot and die to be replaced by something else. That's a lot of useless work being done.
robohoe 2y ago
Who claims that he is speaking the truth and not some marketing jargon?
- randomNumber7 2y ago
  People who have replaced 25% of their brain with ai.

by chabes 2y ago

akira2501 2y ago

> Can’t really deny that reality anymore folks. You have to establish that the CEO is actually aware of the reality and is interested in accurately conveying that to you. As far as I can tell there is absolutely no reason to believe any part of this.

paradox242 2y ago

When leaders without the requisite technical knowledge are making decisions then the question of whether AI is capable of replacing human workers is orthogonal to the question of whether human workers will be replaced by AI.

hbn 2y ago

I'd suggest the bigger factor in those layoffs is the money was made in earlier covid years where money was flowing and everyone was overhiring to show off record growth, then none of those employees had any justification for being kept around and were just a money sink so they fired them all. Not to mention Elon publicly demonstrated losing 80% of staff when he took over twitter and - you can complain about his management all you want - as someone who's been using it the whole way through, from a technical POV their downtimes and software quality has not been any worse and they're shipping features faster. A lot of software companies are overstaffed, especially Google who has spent years paying people to make projects just to get a PO promoted, then letting the projects rot and die to be replaced by something else. That's a lot of useless work being done.

robohoe 2y ago

Who claims that he is speaking the truth and not some marketing jargon?

randomNumber7 2y ago
People who have replaced 25% of their brain with ai.