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OpenAI to double workforce as business push intensifies
- gnabgib 8mo agohttps://archive.is/brHX5 https://archive.is/brHX5
- GenerWork 8mo ago>The new hires will largely work across product development, engineering, research and sales. I wish the article would've been able to break down the amount of people that they wanted to hire in each area. I would think that if they're trying to break Anthropics momentum in business, they'd be hiring a lot of salespeople.
- mech422 8mo agoAhh - the circle of life... Its now cheaper to hire humans then to buy more nvidia cards to spin up AI workers! :-P
- whateveracct 8mo agomythical man month
- surajrmal 7mo agoIf your work is parallizable, you can get more done. Eg more enterprise features you weren't currently going to do, more sales calls, more marketing campaigns, etc. mythical man month only applies to highly coupled work with large ramp time. Engineers often don't spend enough time planning to keep work decoupled (and with less people it's unnecessary overhead to do so).
- whateveracct 7mo agoNot necessarily true even for seemingly parallelizable work. I can often do 3 unrelated tickets faster than I can hand 2 off to 2 devs. The PM will wish we could parallelize, but sadly conceptual locality is a thing.
- faragon 8mo agoWasn't their target to replace humans with AI? Why is that not applicable to their business?
- twohaibei 8mo agoMaybe they know something more than they advertise publicly
- rchaud 8mo agoHiring sprees signal growth to the market. Growth is the dominant metric for pumping the IPO stock price considering they're nowhere near profitability. Doesn't matter if they're needed or not. They can always be fired later.
- prodigycorp 8mo agoEmployees for me, but not for thee!