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facow@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Not the point of this article but

Meta is shaking up and downsizing its artificial intelligence division

Wasn’t it just a month or two ago that Zuc was poaching AI engineers with multi-million dollars sign on bonuses? These boom and bust cycles are happening at breakneck speed. Most efficient system btw

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frogbellyratbone_@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
100%. Meta did the same thing with VR back in like 2021 iirc. they’ll hire everyone in sight so competitors can’t hire them. and then those workers will just sit on their hands playing candy crush all day doing zero work.

random link i found about it nypost.com/…/workers-at-meta-salesforce-say-they-…

Former employees of tech giants including Meta and Salesforce say they were hired to sit around and essentially do nothing as companies embark on a course-correction and lay off extraneous workers during the current economic downturn.

Levy added: “It kind of seemed that Meta was hiring people so that other companies couldn’t have us.”

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- Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  That bit about Bighead in Silicon Valley getting paid to do nothing wasn’t made up?
  
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