My team at Mozilla is hiring an engineer with Linux & Android low-level experience. This is a fully remote job.
We deal with all sorts of down-to-the-metal topics in #Firefox: IPC, sandboxing, libc & kernel interactions, memory management, signal handling, linkers, compilers, etc... But also Linux/Android-specific graphics stacks and UIs.
And no, you won't have to deal with AI, I promise.
@gabrielesvelto
That's sort of like saying "Yeah, I work for Lockheed (or General dynamics, et. al.) but my job doesn't have anything directly to do with building military weapons."
Hard pass. Instead, maybe let us know when your organization comes back from the dark side.
@gabrielesvelto Therin lies my point. As far as I and many others are concerned, Lockheed, OpenAI, and the others would all be equally embarrassing to work for.
In fact, one could argue that working for Lockheed et. al. is a less embarassing choice, considering at least when somone uses one of their products, they intend to destroy something, while with GenAI the intent is to get an answer/image/etc.; the destruction is hidden from the user.
Maybe if you get certified non-nuke, carbon neutral.
@gabrielesvelto
While I appreciate that, it goes back to my original remark about guilt by association. This sums up my position pretty well: https://www.osnews.com/story/140074/mozilla-integrating-ai-chatbots-into-firefox/. I believe there is a lot of valid concern about what compromises Mozilla has to make in order to generate the revenue it needs to be sustainable, and this is the proverbial slippery slope.
I'll be happy to reconsider in a few years when the LLM bubble blows up in spectacular fashion.
@gabrielesvelto The fear is that Mozilla's need for revenue might inspire an AI deal.
As for when the bubble will burst, it's really hard to say. It depends on the hubris of people who have made some very big bets indeed. I'm inclined to give it two years, unless someone like Meta comes straight out and says "we're out of LLM AI, effective immediately." That would blow things up real good, but is hardly likely, unless Zuck has a moment of clarity which I believe he's utterly incapable of.
@gabrielesvelto
I realise I'm piggy backing here but it seems relevant.
I was a very long term FF user but eventually stopped using it on Android because it became unusably slow on my cheap device.
A few months later the same on my laptop which is not a low end device.
I now use Brave on both with far superior performance.
On Android opening some sites such as IMDb was pointless.
Hope you can address this. Just compare performance with Brave and beat it.
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