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There's been some news in the last months of companies diving full in on the AI train, firing a bunch of their engineers. And then a couple of months later they're hiring engineers back again when they realise the hype was not delivering.

My thoughts go to:

When will we see some CEO's getting rolled in companies?
Isn't the job of a CEO to drive the business direction and to adequately validate the risks of decisions?
When are company boards going to start calling "Skill Check" on the CEOs on these decisions? Remember board members, those CEOs are messing with your investments.

Would I like to see some retribution? The childish part of me - sure - but I would honestly just like to see companies treating their future business with human eyes instead of following the blind crowd driven by hype beasts. Let's be in this for the long term, not the short term.

And if you want to amplify this in the faces of those CEOS, feel free to do that here: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7419100041937588224/

There's been some news in the last months of companies diving full in on the AI train, firing a bunch of their engineers. And then a couple of months later they're hiring engineers back again when… | Ben Naylor

There's been some news in the last months of companies diving full in on the AI train, firing a bunch of their engineers. And then a couple of months later they're hiring engineers back again when they realise the hype was not delivering. My thoughts go to: When will we see some CEO's getting rolled in companies? Isn't the job of a CEO to drive the business direction and to adequately validate the risks of decisions? When are company boards going to start calling "Skill Check" on the CEOs on these decisions? Remember board members, those CEOs are messing with your investments. Would I like to see some retribution? The childish part of me - sure - but I would honestly just like to see companies treating their future business with human eyes instead of following the blind crowd driven by hype beasts. Let's be in this for the long term, not the short term.

'Techbedrijven' blijven de regels te omzeilen, om werkers maar minder te hoeven betalen

Laatste editie: #Picnic

Picnic dreigt de Nederlandse markt te verlaten, omdat een rechter oordeelde dat het een supermarkt is, geen ecommerce/techbedrijf. Dus moet Picnic zich aan de Supermarkt CAO houden.

Dat wil Picnic niet, want dan zouden salariskosten met 40% omhoog moeten, en zou t “niet meer [kunnen] concurreren”.

Dus... wat nou de markt verstoren? Je zoekt gewoon manieren om werkers uit te persen

#rustweek conference done! That's all they wrote!
#rustweek with @alice_i_cecile - Breaking things can open up great opportunities, A++. Me (ben) has been doing web services dev for a while, and its always nice to see people in completely different areas of coding running into the same problems, we're not alone 😅
#rustweek with @ciura_victor - the brilliantly named duct tape chronicles. C++ isn't going anywhere [soon], and rust is becoming more popular, so finding a way to get a good interop is important to getting these languages to work together. A hard problem to solve, especially for moving targets.
@Mara do I have to choose? Can i just say you are the best for doing this instead? 😅
#rustweek with Ralf Jung - minirust is an interpreter which can run a spec to help test (and encourage) the formal definition of rust. Removing the "mistakes" of languages gone past, and helping to define rust through testing the language specification directly through running real outputs to help remove undefined behaviour.
#rustweek Martin Larralde - writing bio libraries in rust instead of c. Going from MiB/s to GiB/s by moving language. Saving tax payers money by getting results in minutes instead of days, straight execution optimisation.
#rustweek and Waffle reinventing trait objects. A peak behind the hood of how rustc is representing trait objects in memory. Congrats on stabilising this in recent rustc version! Meow
@mre no worries! Feel free to use however you want, no attribution required 😄