Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs

Neckbeards’rein is over!

and they're going to start monitoring employee keystrokes and mouse movements to train AI. good luck guys. save up aggressively now.

For years the advantage big tech had was that capital expenditure was minimal and now with every big tech company trying to become an AI company they’re blowing gobs of money on data centers and everything that goes inside of them.

AI is a huge bubble right now and although it is useful and future models will be more so, the truth is that it’s a lot of pie in the sky too.

Again??? Phew glad I don't work there. I hate that constant worry.

Programmers only or across the company?

Re:

> If America’s so rich how’d it get so sad

> https://www.derekthompson.org/p/if-americas-so-rich-howd-it-...

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I have a genuine dislike for all Meta products now. With time, their intentions have become much more clear and it was never to bring people closer or whatever.

Well, they could layoff 100% and world would be a better place to live.

It really sucks for software engineers though - first these companies made a hype out of "coding" and hacking to build those monstrosities, now they switched to squeezing the accordion to keep the music going. This is not the first time and I hope not the last one - just need new Yahoos of 20s to pop up.

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All the more reason why we need workplace democracy. The elites clearly do not know how to run a business and the economy is the final frontier for democracy to expand into.

Something tells me that the workers at Meta, if given a chance to have self-determination, would run a better shop than Zuckerberg himself.

Is this what they mean to "Feel the AGI?"

AGI has been achieved internally once again at Meta.

Would it be Mark's cloned AI who will call everyone 'personally' to share this news?

I won't be surprised if that's one of the use cases in their mind.

This isn't surprising. This will happen at every tech company first, then every other company afterwards. All jobs will get automated, then all companies will be ran by one person: their owner.