Comment by jcattle
9 days ago
I can't with these AI generalizations for big effect.
> This is the standard tech playbook. Fire the engineers who know how the system works, fire the ones organizing labor, hope nothing catastrophic breaks before you can ship something splashy. Twitter did it. Meta did it. Salesforce did it. Google did it. We have all seen this movie.
Just fluff without any substance.
Is that the standard tech playbook? What did Twitter, Meta etc do? "Ah you know, didn't you hear? They did that thing. With that splashy release."
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed this. A similar section offers an apparently contradictory take with similar language:
> A smart executive welcomes the union, signs a generous contract, and uses the goodwill to consolidate authority for the difficult AI-era decisions ahead. That is the textbook play. Meehan and her team chose the opposite. They picked a fight.
The "standard tech playbook" fires union organizers, but a "textbook play" welcomes them?
Yea that part also stood out to me.
Everything else is also chock-full of plausible sounding but baseless claims and generalizations devoid of any nuance.
> For the people inside the Foundation: this is not a moment to manage. It is a moment to decide.
What does that even mean? Moment to manage what? Decide on what?