> More likely: people in charge change, and they usually want “their people” around

Also, planning reorgs is a ton of work when you never bothered to learn what anyone does and have no real vision for what they should be doing.

If your paycheck goes up no matter what, why not just fire a bunch of them, shamelessly rehire the ones who turned out to be essential (luckily the job market isn't great), declare victory regardless of outcome, and you get to skip all that hard work?

Nevermind long term impacts, you'll probably be gone and a VP at goog or oracle by then!

Can you rehire that quickly though? I know where I live the government won't allow you to rehire people you just fired. Because the severance benefits have lower tax requirements and if you could do that you could do it every year as a form of tax evasion.

Are you in California?

No this was in Europe. I would never work in the US, not even California.

VR + AI could actually be kinda fun (I’m sure folks are working on this stuff already!). Solve the problems of not enough VR content and VR content creation tools kind of sucking by having AI fill in the gaps.

But it is just a little toy, Facebook is looking for their next billion dollar idea; that’s not it.

You should read https://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/friendship-is-optimal.

Even tho the creator says LLMS aren't going in that direction it's a fun read, especially when you're talking about VR + AI.

Author's note from late 2023: https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/1026612/friendship-is-optima...

VR + AI synergies is why meta released their model open source Im guessing. The other big tech companies largely have LLMs as substitutes to their products(google being worried about people using chatgpt instead of traditional search) but for meta their products have incredible synergy with AI.

Billion is too little for them tbh.