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.
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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