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Comment by hot_gril

1 year ago

I don't think the layoffs have anything to do with this. Most likely, everyone involved in AI was totally safe from it too.

A high performance team is a chaotic system. You can’t remove a piece of it with predictable results. Remove a piece and the whole system may fall apart.

To think the layoffs had no effect on the quality of output from the system seems very naive.

  • Yes, it has some effect on the company. In my opinion, lots of teams had too many cooks in the kitchen. Work has been less painful post-layoffs. However, it doesn't seem like anyone related to Gemini was laid off, and if so, it really is a no-op for them.

    • I think you contradict this statement in this very thread:

      > Yeah, no way am I beta-testing a product for free then risking my job to give feedback.

      An environment of layoffs raises the reputational costs of being a critical voice.

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