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Re:The 'white-collar bloodbath' is all part of the AI hype m... by oblio on Saturday May 31, 2025 @01:09PM (#44145626)
> People a decade from now will think Elon slashed Twitter's employee count by 90% because of some AI initiative, and not because he simply thought he could run a lot leaner.

That part is so overblown. Twitter was still trying to hit moonshots. X is basically in "keep the lights on" mode as Musk doesn't need more. Yeah, if Google decides it doesn't want to grow anymore, it can probably cut it's workforce by 90%. And it will be as irrelevant as IBM in maximum 10 years.

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Re:The 'white-collar bloodbath' is all part of the AI hype m... by aikinai on Saturday May 31, 2025 @01:19PM (#44145686)
What moonshots has Twitter gone for in the last decade? Feature velocity is also higher since the acquisition.
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Re:The 'white-collar bloodbath' is all part of the AI hype m... by oblio on Saturday May 31, 2025 @03:26PM (#44146445)
"Moonshots" was probably a bad term. Twitter devs used to be very active in open source, in Scala, actors, etc in particular. Fairly sure that's all dead. From most reports the majority of current Twitter devs are basically visa-shackled to the company.
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Re:The 'white-collar bloodbath' is all part of the AI hype m... by nova22033 on Saturday May 31, 2025 @04:39PM (#44146798)
What happened to X, the payment app?
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