Well, the problem is that anyone with the gumption to make that works could also make a fortune in a for profit company. Very few have ever said “I have enough” and sacrificed their next billion for this ideal. And the ones who have were already a couple billion in and could well afford it.
Oh dear. The workers are seizing the means of production, but they’re doing it with AI!
My oh my, what will Lenny decide???
Netflix failed to pay enough to make everyone in the world happy to use them as their streaming platform. Fair enough. They were smaller then and probably couldn’t. If they had become the end-all-be-all same probably be sitting here complaining about their monopoly and yearning for a world with multiple independent services we could subscribe to at will.
Can you say more? Do you mean that people may want AI in the browser soon? I’m just curious.
Hard logic unfortunately that you can’t buy the delusion that she wants it.
Agreed and thats probably why his apology fell on the sword so completely: there’s no cost to admitting the moral failing and he is confident in the long run he will get away with it.
But material violations of commerce or espionage laws…. There’s zero about that in his apology and he will deny and fight like hell.
My only point here is to point out how trivial the human / moral / family dimension obviously is to him. Compete and total admission of guilt right away. Because he doesn’t give a fuck. Only thing that actually moves him is his job and company.
Losing 4% of your body mass would be 5-7 fingers.
Don’t worry, corporations and shareholders definitely feel 4%. The average consumer always sees small percentages like this and thinks they don’t matter. They do.
His apology was so pat and by the numbers. You just know he had AI write it.
The actual explanation is “I am rich and famous and thought that should entitle me to whatever sex I want. And I thought I could get away with it.”
It’s his security blanket.
We forget sometimes that part of women’s liberation is that a woman is free to be just as big an asshole as a man.
Yeah I don’t even know if the company I work for has actually gotten more benefit than it’s cost us. The bill is significant, for one thing. For another we have a whole group of people developing AI tools for internal use now. They aren’t cheap. Of course there’s some benefit but is it net positive? No idea. Is it hugely positive? Fuck no.
I too want to know exactly how this happens “a few times” wtf.
Forgive me, but you must be pretty far from software development to equate any use of AI in software engineering with “vibe coding.”
In the hands of capable engineers, AI is a powerful tool that can be used responsibly to save time or eliminate tedious work. It doesn not have to be used blind and it doesn’t always dig an inescapable hole.
“Vibe coding” is when people without engineering competency fake their way through it with AI. It’s really a very different situation. The difference between aerospace engineering and a landlord special.
These seem like capable engineers with a lot of energy and experience. I think we can give them the benefit of the doubt. If anything, this is the most legit and inspiring use case for AI I’ve seen in a while.
And for people saying that they are just using the AI products of the companies that dropped them… again they must be far from the industry. There’s a small handful of companies building the leading models and those are not the companies that laid these people off. There is a huge world of SAAS companies like Altlassian and Salesforce and thousands more you’ve never heard of who build business productivity software - bloated, shitty, overpriced crap that’s ripe for displacement. Nothing to do with LLM vendors.