I can confirm. I’ve worked for two different companies since 2023, and in both of them, there was a cabal that were super hyped up on AI while the rest just ignored them. In one of them, it was half the company, but that company was more like a cult… People in my current one are more level-headed, but that just makes the divide look even bigger.
Something about convincing people about things their income depends on…
There’s probably also a tragedy of the commons kind of situation. Yes, it’s bad, but everyone else is doing it so you have to as well. If 99% of people do it and you don’t, you’re even worse off than everyone else.
Economics often turns into a terrible social policy.
They don’t actually believe a single word they say. They’re just too scared to stand up to their shareholders.
Well, actually, they do believe it. They’re just delusional. Because they’re too scared to stand up to their shareholders.
As a bit of an aside, I learned recently why Mozilla has the weird Corporate/Foundation structure that it does: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47701441
Someone claiming to be the CEO of one of these foundations appears to confirm it. Just thought people might be interested to know since this comes up in pretty much every thread about Mozilla.