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Why are people leaving Anthropic now? (Blind)
- talete (Roblox): To escape from IPO lockup period. Now they can dump everything on day one of IPO. If they sit through the IPO their stocks would be worth one-tenth by the time they sell.
- clay~king (Oracle): Bubble is about to burst … here we coming
- nwi (Netflix): Could be anything. Burnout. Getting pushed out. Culture shift as the company prepares to IPO. IME prepping for IPO does cause a shift, more focus on profit, less transparency, cleaning house and bringing in new leadership.
Blood bath at Squarespace (Blind)
- qupwpphxv (ByteDance): The system hired you to do useless shit in the first place. The system giveth and taketh
- XKrd83: This post is not actionable, homie. What do you want readers to do?
- appyaloin (Meta): Thats 20% of total and you say affecting product and engineering. Almost 40%. Too high man too high
I’m completely numb at layoff rumors now (Blind)
- xXiT08 (Amazon): It’s just a job. Why do you stress yourself out so much? Just relax and keep doing what you’re doing. If it’s out of your control - why even worry?
- pika chuut (Adobe): I’ve become numb in tech in general
- Prestige™️ (Expedia Group): Be me! I really don’t care about layoffs. If they lay me
Off, this is my last job before I call it quits anyways
Jobless folks, what are your plans? (Blind)
- /j/bum (LinkedIn): Was stuck for the past few months, took a break, went home to my parents for a month, came back and started using AI to interview.
- rddtholder (Reddit): Been interviewing but I’m way less passionate about tech than I was pre-AI. I’d love to change careers but the money in tech is too good and I have a family to support.
- piracy (Crunchyroll): The ones at the front of technology are starting their own thing. History has shown us that many will not make it, but many will. They are the ones who are best positioned to land wealth. And most of the ones who don’t make it will become the ones taking all the most senior jobs.
I’ve seen this in every market disruption over the last 20 years. I’m looking for a way to start my own thing now.
Google Will Turn Off Search for Schools That Reject A.I. (Gift Article) (r/technology)
- SkankHuntThreeFiddy: >“Search and A.I. are deeply integrated,” said Chris Phillips, vice president for education at Google. If a school has banned A.I., he added, students “will not have access to search, and they’ll see a message from their school that indicates it’s not available.”
Not only is Google cutting off a stream of ad revenue from their search results, but they’re giving school districts another reason not to buy Chromebooks. - ChileCheeseburger: Obviously we’re not the customers anymore, but the product.
/r/degoogle - Oceanbreeze871: My child’s school district uses Google Classroom, Gmail etc But has a district wide ban on AI use under the cheating and integrity policy.
So Google is gonna Nerf the Internet for the entire school district?