I don't think that less employees/layoffs directly correlates with less productivity. As the mythical man month has teached us: what one engineer can do in one month, two engineers can do in a year. It's possible that Intel is trying to reduce the amount of decision makers and streamline their process.
Disclaimer: I despise companies that do layoffs and I am not a proponent of them, but I do acknowledge that companies do them for a reason.
> As the mythical man month has teached us: what one engineer can do in one month, two engineers can do in a year.
I don't remember that being the main idea behind the Mythical Man Month.
I think the major take aways were more like "Adding people to a late project makes it later" and "Some tasks don't get faster with more people.
For example, you can't get 9 women to birth a baby in 1 month". Other tasks _do_ get faster with more people (doubling the number of people digging a ditch will result in the ditch getting dug faster).
> I don't think that less employees/layoffs directly correlates with less productivity.
True, AMD is able to spin new CPU designs with quite a few less people because they seem to be better at leveraging design automation. Jim Keller went to Intel to try to improve their design process and make it more productive, but it doesn't seem like he was able to turn the supertanker in a more productive direction. Lots of cultural inertia there.
Layoffs are always bad but playing catch up with other chip makers requires a very specific set of skills and depending on who/what department(s) they laid off it may not necessarily affect the eventuality.
That's debatable. Intel's design teams aren't as nimble or as lean as AMD's. That means it takes longer for Intel to create a new design to send to the fabs. Yes, Intel is a bit behind on process, but seems to be catching up. I think the bigger problem is on CPU design side because AMD seems to be much more productive by taking more advantage of design automation.
Intel's designs are basically competitive on performance, even when they were stuck on 14nm against TSMC 7nm, at the cost of higher power consumption. Which is down to the better power efficiency of TSMC's process.
Their reputation has taken quite a hit because they're used to charging a premium, so they've been selling hardware with similar performance and worse power consumption for higher prices than AMD. Which isn't a good look. But it's not because they have a bad design, it's because AMD's design is just as good with a superior fab.
A lot of people credit AMD with chiplets, which really was a clever way to deal with fulfilling their contract with GF, and has a major advantage for server chips where they have a large number of compute dice. But the mobile chips and some of the desktop APUs are a single die and don't seem to be suffering for it. It's not the reason the Ryzen 7 5800X uses so much less power than the equivalent Core i7.
Not if their upper management has deemed the output/productivity of those employees "not worth it" from a business perspective, or not if the employees they are firing are in the wrong department/organization for that goal.
CEO/board/executives initiate "we want to lay off X people", they send it down the ladder through management. One manager says to another "hey, you have to pick at least 2 people you want to lay off" for example.
I don't know how important/critical you are in the grand scheme of things if your manager selected to choose you instead of somebody else on the team.
That's all if your manager doesn't also get scrapped/if a manager above your manager didn't choose your entire team to get scrapped, etc.
If anything, firing seven layers of managers and TPS-report-manglers might free the technical staff to actually make progress, instead of sitting in meetings all day
I believe the real devil is in the details - in the article:
"He added that the threat from generative AI is not the only challenge for Chegg, which struggled to maintain its rapid growth as learning moved online during the Covid-19 pandemic."
Perhaps ChatGPT in this instance is a scapegoat. Having worked in a company where stock price experienced explosive growth during the pandemic, it was really hard for everyone, investors and workers to swallow that it was not "real" per se, just inflated over the uncertainty of what might life look like if covid would stay forever. Chegg, the company from the article just could not offer the same growth after the pandemic.
Now I'm not familiar with Stripe or its founders. But perhaps Patrick has a colostomy bag[1]? Flatulence can get loud, uncontrollable and smell worse that regular.
It feels as though the online community is about to circle back in a cyclical way, to semi-private forum-like communities. Atleast that's my wishful thinking. I remember being involved in a local bowmaking (archery) forum almost a decade back. The quality of posts there was something I remember fondly to this day.
A 50cc gas scooter! I've never been into motorcycles and learned to ride a bike pretty late in life. My friends got into dirt bikes and that got me thinking, maybe I'd like to try something similar.
Well so far its been a wonderful experience. I love the sense of freedom it gives me. And its actually super economical with 80 miles per gallon. I became a scooter/moped preacher!
Never forget the first rule of skateboarding: you will fall, miss or crash. It's not if it's when. What happen then depend on your speed (hopefully). So I dont drive above 20 miles an hour on my scooter. Above is simply not viable.
This is exactly the resource I was currently looking for! I've recently started a pet project as a way to learn deployment and CI. I work in a big company, where the devops parts are worked on by different teams, are mighty complex and are pretty much black boxes for other teams. I've already submitted my request for the book. Best of luck for the author and thank you!
Remember What Used to Work, Then Do It Again - this one really resonated with me. Recently I've taken up meditation with an app, and a recurring theme of it is to "Just begin again" - in context, meaning begin again, when you mind wanders. But I've found that the idea is very applicable to almost every faced of life. For example, I wish to start working out, but my willpower is low and I tend to miss some days. By just beginning again, without judgement, without guild, I'm getting back to the problem and working on it again. Sounds like this is the same idea. Remember what used to work, then do it again. Just begin again.
Leave one headphone out, just in case :D Hope a cute guy approaches you one day soon!
To answer the question, I've heard anecdotal stories of atleast a few of my friends, how they got "adopted" by a random group of people celebrating in the city. Always be safe of course.
As a less experienced web developer, i found "How I write backends"[1] very enlightening and I recommend it to all my peers when we discuss useful resources.
I just read it but I think it focuses too much on specific tools (Redis, Node,...) and their configurations which might not be the best for most use cases. Especially if it's for a beginner who maybe doesn't have to start out with a load balancer and Redis.
