Comment by akKjans

> the block layoffs were a test, to see how a) a software company manages with only half of its employees now that there's powerful LLMs, and b) how the remaining employees react to the imminent threat of them being laid off as well.

The block layoffs were due to years of over hiring.

> Already today, we have single person billion dollar exits

It was nowhere near that much, and this was more a coordinated marketing move by OpenAI than an organic process.

> high schoolers making millions from food apps

This app is a sign of the massive bubble we’re in. The developer should be ashamed to make people think they could estimate calories from an image.

There’s trillions of dollars behind these AI companies succeeding. A lot of the hype you’re seeing is paid for. If you’re reading news articles, blogs, etc and not digging any further you’re being manipulated.