Vikram Ramalingam

[Vikram Ramalingam @VRAMM97]

@HighyieldHarry Yeah he probably sold his account

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@JTLonsdale lol there’s a difference between innovation roles and operational roles

They have different pay bands

When you give an innovator operational duties you’re taxing their time and energy. The opportunity cost makes no sense for these situations

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@tekbog lol that works for a product launch video, but for a on stage presentation you want something fun, light, and interactive - which this was

I thought the “send it to my watch” thing was kinda dumb but the demo itself wasn’t terrible

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@kimmonismus lol no Anthropic is not approaching profitability, they’re just less not profitable to where they can do some accounting magic to make a positive number appear on the balance sheet

Whereas OpenAI can’t even do that

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@LayoffAI If you’re a destination company or want to be, execs need to decide that and set company direction accordingly with big bets

Just raising salary bands and cutting work force is useless

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@LayoffAI Companies need to take an introspective look at themselves and decide if they’re a pipeline company or a destination company

Most are pipeline and if that’s the case then cash salary bands don’t solve your problem, it just makes your business more subject to ruin

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@LayoffAI lol I’m sorry if you are truly a 100x engineer you’ll very quickly get bored and leave to a company that actually is solving interesting problems

Rather than productivity software suite

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@t_blom 800m is pennies when that compute itself was gifted to them and it’s via tokens so they have full control to adjust how those are consumed/the value

Not to mention the benefit of equity and being able to see all the data from new startup efforts and forcing an ecosystem

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@ChatGPTapp Ad value for each user just went through the moon

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@kimmonismus You can do this way faster without a humanoid
Just tour any Amazon warehouse lmao

I think there is application for this form factor but this use case is inefficient

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@mitsuhiko So dumb same thing as the 3 roles in 1 bs, or non technical shipping prod code

It’s probably the most inefficient and improperly indexed allocation of resource possible

Breath at the expense of depth

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@nicdunz lol that’s not even a good clone, the poll has to have been botted for optics

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@cryptopunk7213 If I’m a competitor it’ll be very easy to poach key 1-person teams and ruin companies

Sounds great in theory, reality is unless you’re 1 of maybe 5 companies where the equity potential is so outsized that nothing matters

You can’t actually afford to this with top talent

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@cryptopunk7213 This has to be a pure speed and culture bet, because you’re not really going to get much cost benefit from 1 person (engineering, product, design) and dual ic-manager teams if you have to raise wages to account for added workload and attrition impact gets worse

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@woke8yearold It’s an alternate thesis because the less work, ubi utopia is just not probable

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@woke8yearold He’s saying “people will be busier than ever” and “jobs will look different” because high skill labor will go away and jobs will in large become low skill, low wage

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@matthieusoule @shaig Yeah you can’t be a frontier lab and be acquired for 1B dollars unless the company is a total sham

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@TrungTPhan They made Google dance through any exclusivity deal, not really any of their own work and now they’re paying the price on it

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@ns123abc lol that isn’t a blow, it’s a technicality and an irrelevant one at that

He gave significant money to a charity that turned out not to be a charity

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@KobeissiLetter What in the propaganda is that note at the bottom
He already has 35-40% ownership of SpaceX the salary doesn’t mean shit

Many ceos take a $1 salary