Google laid off their python lang team. This is a bad idea:
Google is all-in on “AI” and python is integral to ML
Other lang teams should be worried. If something as core to ML like python gets axed in an AI Bubble, what hope do other langs have?
@baldur AFAIK they're not eliminating the work that team was doing, they're moving it to Germany where tech labour is cheaper.
(This is still a bad idea, not because Germans are going to be worse at the job, but because they've essentially just flushed all their established python langdev talent down the drain.)
@datarama And it still raises the worry among their other lang teams (of which they apparently have quite a few, I think?) that the same will be done to them.
Like I’ve said a number of times: current tech executives are genuinely bad at their jobs and only good at juking the stock market. But the problem is that, in the long term, stock markets also like to see companies function and succeed at competing for market share
@baldur I can't quite shake this feeling that a lot of "tech execs" especially with things like McKinsey or PWC backgrounds are actually agents working for the technocrats who want to destroy democracy.
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