Have there been any better tech layoff packages in the last few years?

This is probably the best, wow.

Not sure why you're being downvoted but this is the truth if you live in a western country (probably other countries too but I have never lived outside of a non-Western country).

It does feel weird, but it may be the true reality of the future that we're just not used to yet.

Look at all the investment and time being spent on SKILL.md, AGENT.md, etc files, yet alone normal prompts.

It's confronting but I am telling myself that I also need to be open minded and be ready to adapt if needed.

Will be interesting to come back to this post in 5 years time and see how much more the industry has done to prevent this from happening.

There are like hundreds of not thousands of users making similar mistakes with AI daily but only a small fraction would post or complain about it.

Last fall it was 50%. Now it's 75%.

Google still somehow has 190,000 employees though. I'd be interested in seeing if the total lines of code output is actually any different (acknowledging that this is not a good metric in itself, still just curious).

The number will continue going up until profitability improves.

This is a use case of AI image generation that's actually a positive for society.

Anthropic's current valuation is $800 billion.

Atlassian's is $19 billion.

Is Anthropic really worth 40x Atlassian? If so, is it worth them spending just 2.5% of their valuation to acquire Atlassian's 300,000 enterprise customers?

I would be very bullish if this were to happen.

Exactly my thoughts. It also raises major questions about organizational and executive leadership, it seems crazy to put the reigns of such a massive ship - integral to the business of huge swaths of the economy - into the hands of an ambitious flash in the pan startup.

You don't use the HSBC or Citibank app then I assume?

They don't operate in my county AFAIK. However that reinforces my idea that the endgame will be a pristine Android phone in a drawer at home with the banking apps required for accessing their sites with 2FA and another phone in my pocket for daily use.

I’m not sure that Google/Android selling everyone two phones instead of one is the deterrent to this behavior that you envision.

It's not a deterrent, far from that, but it's probably what I'll have to do to be able to carry with me a sane device.

The majority of the code currently running in production for my company was written 5+ years ago. This was all "hand-written" and much lower quality than the AI generated code that I am generating and deploying these days.

Yet I feel much more connected with my old code. I really enjoyed actually writing all that code even though it wasn't the best.

If AI tools had existing 5 years ago when I first started working on this codebase, obviously the code quality would've been much higher. However, I feel like I really loved writing my old code and if given the same opportunity to start over, I would want to rewrite this code myself all over again.