By assuming that technical talent is fungible and interchangeable, a previously-successful engineering company will be run into the ground...
...along with a few of its own products and everyone on board.
It's astonishing how certain types of managers will prefer less-talented-but-more-controlable scientists and engineers over more brilliant and creative ones who may be more difficult to control, somewhat unpredictable, and sometimes annoying.
Here is the thing: scientific and technical breakthroughs are unpredictable by management, and progress often comes from folks with unconventional personalities and backgrounds.
As I was told by my management at Bell Labs: "You don't have to be crazy to work here, but it helps" 😄
The "Hello World"s of machine learning & AI:
2013: RandomForestClassifier on Iris
2015: XGBoost on Titanic
2017: MLPs on MNIST
2019: AlexNet on Cifar-10
2021: DistilBERT on IMDb movie reviews
2023: Llama 2 on Alpaca 50k?
Eu tenho uma teoria de que o CEO do OpenAI não foi demitido, acho que ele era CLT e fez um acordo com o patrão pra poder sacar o FGTS + seguro desemprego enquanto ganha salário trabalhando sem assinar a carteira.