This article is written from the perspective of a corporations's best interests.

Large companies have made it abundantly clear that they are sociopathic entities that consider nothing but profit. They will put on a mask and smile and do the absolute minimum to appear to care about you and retain valuable employees but it's all a show.

It is within the best interests of individual engineers to do the same.

They don’t even care about profit! It’s well documented that having long-tenured employees saves you money in a ton of ways (the tangibles are: recruiter fees, ramp-up time, higher pay for new hires… and the intangibles are all the hidden work or keep things running smoothly, building relationships between teams or departments, and innovation). But individuals have to quit to get a market-rate job, and the company ends up paying out the nose for someone new.

They in fact care about control more than they care about profit. I mean control over non-shareholders, including employees and customers, as part of an implied goal of any organisation, control over non-members.

I would say it’s more short term profit. They are happy to cut off the nose and put the rest in the backlog

It's all just a sado maso power game.

I saw an article on HN a while back that showed the math for "senior" employees was affected by the amount of profit generated off them.

I think that it was pitched at sales, but maybe could be applied to ENG.

The thinking was - if you have X sized market, you price in Y for your staff and you take Z for the profit - as the price of your staff increase, if the size of the market, or your share of it, does not increase, your profit decreases.

So it makes sense (the article argued) to drop the senior staff, and bring in the lower paid, but almost as good, intermediates - the profit stays the same.

They should make non-yellowing transparent phone cases out of this stuff.

What's going to change in 2 years that would allow users to run 500B-800B parameter models on consumer hardware?

I think its just an estimate

But the question remains

so?

When we seek to "reclaim" something, will we be reclaiming from the offspring of Tolkien?

Being biologically descended from Tolkien doesn't mean they're necessarily nice people, or aren't simply motivated by earning as much revenue from the legacy as possible.

Eventually every word spoken as well, which is already the case for most meetings, but not yet for individual interactions. Every bit of information at companies will be accessible to AI. This will allow automation all the way up to the C suite.

I thought I was tripping when I saw this. Must have been a measure to reduce usage to save them some compute.

Sorry but this is a ridiculous comment. It's not magic. There are countless levers that can be changed and ARE changed to affect quality and cost, and it's known that compute is scarce.

We aren't superstitious, you are just ignorant.

So instead of breaking shit they should have just increased their prices.

Reminds me of the Linux circle jerk subreddit where everyone takes posts seriously.

I think it's mostly to tongue in cheek.

That's what I thought too. It's written in a curmudgeonly style for curmudgeonly readers similar to the author's other posts on substack. Don't think the author made this for very broad reading or expected this to get on HN lol