What an utter dick.
Same energy
“I worked on the team that implemented Vulkan support for Unreal Engine 5, and have created over 200 shaders for AAA retail games.”
“Sir, this is a Wendy’s”
Upending the lives of all of these people is actually a GOOD thing for the industry. ~ Tim Sweeney
No, more like the data crunching algorithms that ingest and evaluate the resumes will fine tune down to determining some kind of pattern or set of patterns, which describes what skill sets Epic apparently no longer needs.
Then, that data will be sold to some business intelligence / market strategy development consultant, who will then adjust their advice that they give to other tech clients.
Sweeney also fully knows this is what will happen.
Because he has similar consultants or perhaps an inhouse team, going over the same kind of data, that told him to let all these people go.
None of these C suite types actually do any advanced, in depth, strategic planning.
They have the BI guys write those up for them, like how the military has a set of potential war plans to be followed or activated when some set of cinditions are triggered, or a General decides its time to do it, or w/e.
The C suite folk, they’re literally just a big social club, all they do is collude with or against other C suites.
Like… that’s how this actually works.
It would be immensely easier and generate huge savings for big firms to automate their C suites, not the actual specialists or team leads with deep systemic and specific knowledge.
They’re the most expensive employees, by far, and they are the most likely to act irrationally, with outsized negative impacts on the whole business.
… But thats not the point.
The point… is to pamper the C suite people’s egos and wallets.
Yep.
That is the actual ultimate end goal.
Its a rigid class system, with an incompetent and haughty nobility… that just kind of pretends to not be that.
Techno-feudalism.
They spent decades putting an end to meritocracy so they could lord over us with unearned positions of power.
For some reason, I feel disgusted by his smug attitude.
As you should be.
Another brilliant CEO decision that is definitely worth his massive pay.
I mean he could pay himself $1 a year and still be making a killing in dividends since he still owns over 40% of the company.
Yes, when I say pay I mean total compensation. Those people take cheap loans out against their equity.
That part wouldn’t be part of his total compensation because it’s not actually income.
But I’m fairly sure he gets dividends. Because there are other shareholders and they wanna get paid too. Much lower tax rate than when making the same amount in salary.
I worked on calculating the total compensation packages for a major investment firm. We’re talking VERY large. They got most of their income in “internal shares” with long term incentive delays on them like 3 years.
That makes sense in many contexts, but not really if you’re the largest shareholder in a privately-held company. Which is why I’m fairly sure most of his income is dividends. Does he use the loan trick to live a fancier lifestyle? Perhaps, but we’ll probably never be privy to the information.
The worst part of job hunting was tailoring your reaume to match a job posting for each job…just to try and get by the AI filters and get humans to look at it.
Once i learned how to fool most HR filters, i started to get calls from companies.
Its all a fucking game
Care to share?
Same here. Is it just listing a bunch of keywords?
What i did was eliminate a bunch of stuff that did not relatebto the position first. E.g. ai does not care you volunteer at a food shelter if the job is for carpentry.
Dont include it if the position doesnt require it.
E.g. dont put “proficient in Word” unless the request states “candidate must be proficienr in wors”. Also if they ask for someone proficient in mail merging welcome letters from names in ms access… then put exactly that on the C.V.Dont just list software you know…parrot their requests back at them…thisis what i mean about tailoring the reaume to the position.
I went with skills first, Then a list of companies for work history without explaining what i did there except for 1 position that seemex to want a list of accomplishments at a previous job.
Extras tha might help come last.
Just the facts, leave the talking points for the interview. Thats the time to bring up your food shelter volunteer work.
Match the job requests in the CV to get past the non human filters first.
“I have optimized the streamlined AI driven deep learning model to predict our maximum net ROI for our start up company.”
“I did linear regression to predict sales next month”
Any advice you have would be greatly appreciated.
Honestly, I do respect the decision to publicly declare that the laid off employees were very good. I’ve done job searching while laid off and it does suck the suspicion through which you’re viewed by interviewers when they ask about it
When I did hiring our HR had some system that did this. It fucking sucked. It passed through so many shit candidates. I eventually ended up just going straight to the discard pile when I had to review applications.
I just don’t get all this shit. I’m a programmer and for years at my last job I did most of the interviewing for candidates and had the final say-so for whether or not we hired somebody. I could tell in a 15 minute phone call whether somebody knew what they were doing or not and could make a positive contribution to the project.
Yeah, I found resumes to be a pretty poor indicator other than kind of “subconscious” things I started picking up on after a while. I doubt any AI or program could manage that though. I can’t even quantity it myself. Talking to someone is infinitely better and I’d always try to get in as many interviews as I could.
My favorite thing about phone interviews was when I’d ask a question and the person would pause and I’d hear keyboard noises and whispering in the background. I was like c’mon dude, even if you get a job this way what the fuck are you going to do your first day at work if you don’t know how to do anything yourself?
Yeah I think some people think laid off and fired are synonyms. I was just low seniority in my union
Massive software layoffs have been common for as long as I can remember. I think it’s not that big of an issue to explain why you are looking for a job in that field. Oh your last job was xxx ahh they laid off x number of employees.
It’s not a secret that most of the people laid in these things are just people on the wrong teams and nothing to do with their capabilities
The EGO on this man “because I hired all of these people, they’re amazing. Pay no attention to the fact that I had to lay 1k of them off due to poor planning.”
Ai is going to bankrupt a lot of stupid business owners
At this point, the weeding is needed
Good, they’ll have to sell off all their shit, and we can get lots of fancy stuff really cheap at their yard sales.
Those rich douchebags are always buying expensive guitars they never learn to play, that’s what I’m targeting.
I too collect guitars, I like your logic here.
Brother! You can have all those Trump guitars. Don’t bother leaving any behind for me.
The basics are still there: Food, Shelter, Water, Safety Fill one of those needs and forget about the fancy AI silliness.
Yes, before AI Fortnite was fulfilling one of those 4 basic needs, you’re right.
The person you’re replying to is trying to say you’ll be safer if you work for a company providing basic needs instead of something non-required, like gaming.
my company of 50 went down to 22 because of “AI productivity gainz” - then we had the biggest dip in client retention in its 10 year history and those clients that do remain all have massive issues with getting what they want and there are constant “fire drills” to keep them happy.
We just started using it a couple of weeks ago, I’m expecting this very same scenario.
Did management have anything to say? How was the dip in client retention measured?
EOY state of the Union report, 10Q reporting or whatever the eoy one is called.
Retention is the classic churn metric (lost/total)*100
It’s simultaneously testing the waters and conditioning people to accept less.
No, employers will REJECT all those great resumes, because they’re firing their best people, too.
All this uncontrolled giddiness about AI is entirely, 100% because they are so excited about the opportunity to FIRE as many disgusting human workers as possible. They have already declared the human workforce dead, and they are replacing us ASAP, often before our computerized replacements are even ready.
Remember all those racists chanting about being replaced? It isn’t the Jews, or the immigrants, or whatever was in their pea brains, it’s the AI/Robotics that absolutely WILL replace us.
They’re trying to realign tech and software developers from the cool, relaxed, high paid jobs of a decade ago to more “modern” (read: exploited) standards of work.
They’re ecstatic that they finally have leverage over thought workers.
I agree with the first two paragraphs, but as for the third, I think you overestimate the capability of chatbots on steroids. I’d even go so far as to say that promoting the whole “imminent replacement for humanity” narrative is doing their marketing for them. It couldn’t even run a Taco Bell drivethrough.
I get what you are saying, but the distinguishing characteristic of the new AI, over the past computer programs, is that it learns, and improves. Years ago, people used to laugh at me for supporting solar, because it was so inefficient. I just said the research will improve it, and today solar is an extremely popular, affordable, and growing option, especially with Trump’s war profiteering.
Apparently in the AI world, they are expecting it’s capabilities to double every 7 months. I saw a list of steps, with the industries that will be impacted with each step, and as each step doubles, it impacts bigger and bigger industries.
It’s learning the basics right now, but humans are training the AI to the point that it will replace them, then the next level of humans will train the next level until replaces them, then move on to the next level to be trained.
In a few years, well all be replaced, except a lucky few who do the maintenance, but those jobs won’t pay much, because if you won’t do it for that pay scale, get out of the way, there are a LOT of unemployed people who will accept it.
Uh… you’re misunderstanding what it’s doing. It’s not learning as we use the word.
It’s figuring out what words probabilistically appear near each other. Like when you use the suggested word at the top of your mobile keyboard. You can write “sentences”, but they often go off the rails.
They just get fed some keywords and spit back out words it has observed to be near those.
And no point are LLMs capable of making any analysis or decisions. They cannot perform any thought based work. At best it can copy past shit it’s seen someone else figure out on the Internet. There are very few jobs out there that are entirely devoid of any decision making that these could actually be expected to replace (and have the company continue to function)
It learns, sure… and it’s already learned as much as it can from the entire internet, and still can’t run a Taco Bell drivethrough.
Apparently in the AI world, they are expecting it’s capabilities to double every 7 months. I saw a list of steps
Yeah, and in the cryptocurrency world, they predicted that Bitcoin would currently be worth $200k - $300k, potentially as high as 400k - 1mil in high-greed environments.
Instead, it is almost exactly at the value of their “Bitcoin Dead” level lol
I would give less credence to the opinions of people whose financial interests are vested in you believing AI is magic.
It’s learning the basics right now, but humans are training the AI to the point that it will replace them, then the next level of humans will train the next level until replaces them
Humans are more than just chatbots. Therefore even the most advanced chatbot will never replace us.
Which is not to say that I think humans are the supreme possible intelligence, or that machine intelligence could never surpass us. I just do not believe that the current LLM’s we have are capable of achieving anything resembling actual thought, just a decently convincing mimicry of it.
It’s also not to say that I think no jobs will be lost, but I think they’ll be situations like where a QA department reduces its workforce by 75% but then the remaining 25% are still expected to oversee the AI’s output. It’s still a shit outcome economically (though I’d also reference that quote, “Imagine how badly we had to fuck up to create a world where the robots taking all the jobs is a bad thing”), but it’s not the same as actually rivaling us in cognition or intellectual capacity.
In a few years, well all be replaced, except a lucky few who do the maintenance
And a few years before 2016, everyone who bought Bitcoin was going to be driving a Lamborghini.
I still see more Priuses and Corollas on the road these days.
I just do not believe that the current LLM’s we have are capable of achieving anything resembling actual thought
That’s why they were talking about future capabilities, not current ones
I mean the structure of the technology itself. It’s a chatbot.
And anyway, as far as future capabilities go, that’s just their opinion. And as far as that goes,
I would give less credence to the opinions of people whose financial interests are vested in you believing AI is magic.
If you’re thinking of the list that I’m thinking of: that is completely unfounded. They started with the premise “AI will be perfect in 2 years” and then drew a graph that looked good-ish. There is no scientific value to it.
Valid, but no matter what the timeline, it’s going to improve over time, and companies are already committed to it, so they’ll be prioritizing continuing R&D until it does what they want it to.
It’s coming whether we like it or not, and it’s going to be a bloodbath no matter what the final scenario is. Either the workers take the hit, or the companies do, and if the companies do, then the workers will take the hit anyway.
The workers are screwed no matter what.
t’s coming whether we like it or not.
Counterpoint: LLMs are a dead-end for AGI. And outsourcing tasks to a “sometimes correct, but very often wrong” bot starts looking like a not-so-good idea once you actually need to pay for the compute.
Valid, but that’s part of what I mean. If it finally works the way they want it to, welcome to a 75+% permanent unemployment rate, and the worker is screwed. But if it doesn’t work, the bubble pops, and the entire economy crashes, and the workers is screwed.
We’re screwed.
Right up there with the 30000 from Amazon.
So he’s…bragging about losing talent???
Seriously I got the best top ppl and letting them go is not the message you want to have.
