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Google announced that something like 25% of their code is AI generated now, and it’d be hilarious how much these companies have enshittified themselves into a cycle of constant self-owns except that we keep suffering for it too.
Like every google app and service is bad now. Search sucks. YouTube apps are bloated, have been crashing, and the algorithm is serving up just random stuff now. G Maps won’t stay open on my phone, and randomly minimizes itself. Gmail is out of space, full of newsletters, and also degrading in search.
Facebook is the same deal. I’ve been on it more recently because I need to track events and it’s all anyone in this city uses. Searching for the name of an event, which you’ve stated you’re going to, by it’s exact name, will find nothing, or an older version of the event from 4 years ago. The feed is 90% ads and sponsored posts, mostly videos. And the videos aren’t ads, they’re just random tiktok-wannabes about paint mixing or machining stuff. It’s utterly bizarre to be inundated with clickbait that desperately wants your attention for no reason.
I consider myself a pretty good engineer and it’s amazing how little these companies can accomplish with literally tens of thousands of developers. Its another of the great paradoxes of our times: individually, software devs must be among the least productive workers of all time, and yet as a group the profession (the computer itself really) has realized such astronomical productivity gains that we’re probably already past the point where anyone really needs to work full-time ever again.
I guess it will impact heavily those who took days off in a protest to the new community guidelines…
But that’s just a coincidence, I’m sure.
Time to print out your commit history and show Zuck how many lines of code you wrote last month!
Oh no, poor Zuckerberg, what is going to do after he’s fired? He has no marketable skills at all.
Didn’t he die just today trying to suck on his own penis? Hard to keep up with the news these days.
I heard that he did get to suck his own cock but when he came he choked on the other Guy’s golden finger. I don’t know if this is an appropriate topic though. He had a big fat cock…he paid the guy a few thousand a day. Why would he suck his own is beyond me.
Nothing a little reprogramming can’t fix.
Also with the abandonment of DEI initiatives, there are no longer any protections for Lizard-Amercians.
Somehow i doubt this’ll affect anyone with “manager”, “head”, “chief” or “officer” in the name…
They may inadvertently focus on people who spoke against the new “pro free speech” of Facebook…
Its most aggressive at the higher tiers, because promotions are a tool of employee retention and “flattening” the management stack is a good way of pushing out the experienced, expensive older employees. You’ll also see a lot more outsourcing of department rolls, as C-levels opt for lowest-bidder contractors you can hire/fire inside a business cycle than big teams of veteran staffers who sit on the payroll thick or thin. That means fewer mid-level managers, as the actual process of team management is sent overseas or subcontracted out to temporary management firms.
McDonald Douglas and Yahoo both executed on this strategy back in the 90s to great effect. Stock valuations boomed, because they were able to create the illusion of cost cutting without impacting quarterly revenue. All it cost them was mountains of technical debt. And then nothing bad happened to either company.
It might if they show support for their gay or trans colleagues
I’m not sure if you’re up to date on how layoffs have been done lately in tech, but management has been primary targets in layoffs. Full layers of management have been removed, and middle managers have often been expected to take on twice as many reports for no increase in compensation.
No comments on the C-level part which is largely correct
Funny enough, it’s all content moderators and fact checkers.
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Then the ones just above the lowest 5% become the newest lowest 5%.
Is he gonna cut them next ?
First they came for the lowest 5%,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a lowest 5%.
Then they came for the lowest 5%,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a lowest 5%.
Then they came for the lowest 5%,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a lowest 5%.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to cut below me.What you can end up with is a lot of new hires queued up for the firing line. The “bottom 5%” is, initially, the people in the office who are currently in a slump. But then you bring on a load of fresh new hires who have little experience and a lot of pressure. They burn out fast and become the next “bottom 5%”.
Meanwhile, the more politically and technically savvy learn to survive by creating make-work tasks that look good on performance metrics but do little for the firm as a whole. Their superiors approve, because a team that is constantly appearing busy is more important than a team that’s producing anything of value. So you end up with these little entrenched departmental fiefs, dedicated to making themselves irreplaceable at the expense of the company as a whole.
There’s a ton written on the Sears collapse in the early 00s, where this exact dynamic played out. Managers turned against one another, because stack ranking mattered more than inter-department cohesion or bottom line figures. The company went from a network of high end retailers to a shitty outlet stores over the course of a decade.
Show me the lowest 5% of performers at Meta and I’ll show you people doing God’s work.
i show you mark zuckerberg
Please dont
Now, now, I know its human costume is not perfect yet, but just don’t look into its eyes and you should be OK.
Probably the metaverse crew. I doubt that’s God’s work.
Imagine working in the department the company is now named after and realizing your whole product line is irrelevant and the AI-people get all the money now.
Wasting meta’s resources on a deserted wasteland absolutely nobody wants or cares about? I think I don’t mind that actually.
Gotta make them fear for their jobs. Keep the workers in line.
Unionize!
Meta has workers? Thought everything is attached to that shitty hub system they’ve been leaning on for years now.
who is going to be the next CEO?
I heard vice president Donald Trump might be interested if president Musk will let him
Unless they’re axing the top 5% of the org chart, they’re not cutting the lowest performers.
What even counts as “performing” there?
Ohh look big tech is doing veneric corpo shit now…
Tech workers deff dont need a Union 🤡
Bye Bye, Meta, I wish I could say it was fun.
