Ai is going to bankrupt a lot of stupid business owners
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At this point, the weeding is needed
Good, they'll have to sell off all their shit, and we can get lots of fancy stuff really cheap at their yard sales.
Those rich douchebags are always buying expensive guitars they never learn to play, that's what I'm targeting.
No, employers will REJECT all those great resumes, because they're firing their best people, too.
All this uncontrolled giddiness about AI is entirely, 100% because they are so excited about the opportunity to FIRE as many disgusting human workers as possible. They have already declared the human workforce dead, and they are replacing us ASAP, often before our computerized replacements are even ready.
Remember all those racists chanting about being replaced? It isn't the Jews, or the immigrants, or whatever was in their pea brains, it's the AI/Robotics that absolutely WILL replace us.
Weird you'd let all that talent go, then...
my company of 50 went down to 22 because of "AI productivity gainz" - then we had the biggest dip in client retention in its 10 year history and those clients that do remain all have massive issues with getting what they want and there are constant "fire drills" to keep them happy.
It's simultaneously testing the waters and conditioning people to accept less.
We just started using it a couple of weeks ago, I'm expecting this very same scenario.
Did management have anything to say? How was the dip in client retention measured?
EOY state of the Union report, 10Q reporting or whatever the eoy one is called.
Retention is the classic churn metric (lost/total)*100
I do have to give him a mole of credit for at least advocateing their quality. But tbh they should just have together into their own studio.
If they're so talented and experienced, then why'd you fire them for no reason? Surely the company expects to continue growing and will need more employees, not fewer.
I call bullshit. He's under the illusion that computer science and development requires geniuses like they did in the 1950's. Most are just working stiffs being bandied about by bad leadership who eventually throws them away after a series of bad management decisions.
Being a genius only takes you so far. A lot of projects need manpower for testing and debugging, and waiting for some genius with 23549 AI agents won't solve it.
Bragging about leaving people who deserve better jobless, avoiding the use of humanizing language (mentions the resumes, makes sure not to mention "quality" people).
It sounds like a snippet from a bigger statement to me.
So he's...bragging about losing talent???
Seriously I got the best top ppl and letting them go is not the message you want to have.
Living it right now. Me: "We've sold off or had resignations from ¾ of our engineering" Boss: "We'll rebuild".
Also Boss: "Our value is in our people".
Everytime this dirt bag speaks, I wish I had more Epic accounts to cancel.
Just pirate their shit.
Not my cup of tea, for a number of reasons:
- from a security standpoint, I would have a very high probability of downloading something nasty;
- from a legal standpoint, authorities frown upon such behaviour;
- from a moral standpoint, people who produce games should be payed;
- from a personal standpoint, I don't like any of their games.
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A little irrelevant but I saw a reel saying Tim saves Amazon forests with his own money. Apparently he has bought a lot of land there only for the sole purpose of saving Amazon. Can anyone fact check this?
Apparently he bought it so he can steal endangered animals and make them fight in a "death arena" in his back garden. Please don't fact check this, just accept it is true.
Wouldn't be the first time though.
I don’t know about the Amazon, but he does own huge amounts of land in North Carolina which he has protected and/or donated to conservation schemes.
Is it that thing where people get paid for not cutting the forest down?
Yes. Greenwashing. You pay someone who wasn't going to cut their trees to keep not cutting their trees, and you get carbon credits to offset your company's pollution.
You change nothing but get to brag about saving the world.
He needs to be dropped into a deep well and forgotten.
Also a stream of game programmers learning basic security concepts and transitioning into cybercrime too hopefully.
They can start with companies they know inner-workings of.
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About as bad as the last company I worked at, a VP would say folks who were laid off were "promoted to customers".
I suggest violence
I do hope there's a special place in hell for people like this, where they are spanked for all eternity with a soup spoon.
Yeah… I'm so happy I never made an accout…
Ugh, he's not epic.
Shouldn't it be Epics?
This is the type of "dickery" that surpasses all measurements, the one that is, honest to god, trying to be nice.
In short, he's really, REALLY stupid.
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It really didn't take him long to spend what little goodwill he got for punching Apple in the mouth.
I missed the memo there was goodwill.
The greatest employees in the world, for someone else to hire!
Oh yeah Timmy? Who's hiring them in this industry, let alone this economy? Go fuck yourself.
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