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0 pointsskejeke1mo ago0 comments

So why aren’t they laying people off and pumping the extra money towards research efforts associated with Llm’s? Lmao.

They should all cut down their labour input right now if what you claim is true.

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At many of the best tech companies, the conventional wisdom has always been that there's a huge backlog of stuff to be done. They don't want to deliver 100% of their roadmap with 50% of their employees, they want to deliver 200% of their roadmap with 100% of their employees. (And the speedup is not as high as these numbers imply for many kinds of performance, security, or correctness-critical software.)

Some companies like Block, Oracle, and Atlassian have indeed been laying people off.

skejekeOP1mo ago

Lmao man this is absolute nonsense.

Google has done nothing but destroy value with many of its ‘bets’. Your roadmap stuff is irrelevant - if you don’t have value creating projects in the pipeline and/or labour is augmented you should be laying off - period. Sundar’s job is to maximise the stock price.

So once again - nonsense. Now stop spreading crap that clearly fills people with fear. I can tell you have no understanding of corporate finance and how the management of tech firms actually think these things through.

SpicyLemonZest1mo ago

I'm spreading what people involved in management of tech firms have told me. Perhaps they were lying, but to me it seems consistent with what I observe in the news and in my personal capacity.

I'm also not quite sure your alternate theory is self-consistent. If Google has been frequently destroying value, and companies invariably lay people off when their projects aren't producing value, doesn't that mean they should have already been laying people off?

solenoid09371mo ago

Have you considered that some companies want to grow instead of laying people off? No one at Anthropic writes code, they manage 20 Claude Code SWEs.

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SpicyLemonZest1mo ago

Some companies like Block, Oracle, and Atlassian have indeed been laying people off.

skejekeOP1mo ago

Lmao man this is absolute nonsense.

SpicyLemonZest1mo ago

I'm spreading what people involved in management of tech firms have told me. Perhaps they were lying, but to me it seems consistent with what I observe in the news and in my personal capacity.

solenoid09371mo ago

Have you considered that some companies want to grow instead of laying people off? No one at Anthropic writes code, they manage 20 Claude Code SWEs.

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