Comment on OpenAI Employees Say Firm's Chief Scientist Has Been Making Strange Spiritual Claims
remotelove@lemmy.ca 10 months agoIt could be worse, honestly. Tech startups like this can have some weird practices, actually. One company I worked at literally burned tech debt. They wrote it down and burned it. (It never really fixed the core problems either. Imagine that.)
Tech startups can be a little cultish at times. I have seen super healthy cults and also super weird cults. Motivating younger engineers can be a challenge, so if it works, whatever. (I never cared about that kind of stuff as long as I got free food.)
As long as nothing turns religious or harmful, I don’t care. Good engineers can be some very unique people and most likely have some kind of underlying mental disorder. (I am absolutely not being derogatory! Without a doubt, I am in that category of engineer as well, but I am much older and restrained these days.)
floofloof@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
In my experience the engineers usually hate the motivational bullshit that managers dream up because they have too much time and no actual skills. The best thing you can do is give them quiet time to do their work.
remotelove@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
It’s wildly variable who likes that stuff or not, in my experience. If there is purpose behind it and it’s mildly healthy, it can lean more on acceptance’ish. To your point, complete outlandish bullshit does get disregarded quickly. (I have seen both scenarios but I also did a bad job of expressing that the landscape of personality types is massive.)