Hayden Field

When you are tasked with building something that doesn't align with your values, maybe you went to a company because you thought you were going to help achieve AGI, or maybe you thought that you were going to be like, you know, curing cancer, making the world a better place, pick your reason out of a hat here.

And then you're tasked with like creating something like super commercial, short-term, and kind of like in your eyes dumb.

yeah, you're going to be pretty upset and you're probably going to leave because, again, even if your pay package is tied to a lot of long-term stuff that you're going to do at the company or it's tied to the number of years that you're going to stay there in terms of vesting, sometimes you don't care.

Again, a lot of these people are post-money, so they have enough money.

It's just about whether they believe in what they're doing day-to-day.

And if you're doing something you don't agree with or that you think is stupid, yeah, you're going to leave.

Definitely, yes, because there's going to be more transparency, so they're going to have to answer for more of their decisions.

I think they can still write a few huge checks, but they're going to have to really back it up.

So, you know, like we talked about earlier, there's a handful of people at each of these companies that are really driving a ton of change, and they have a lot of influence in their business.

doing a lot more ideation than anyone else.

So people like that, that they can really back up that check for, yeah.

But they can't just be doing it left and right willy-nilly like some people think that they have been just out of FOMO.

So I think the FOMO is going to drop down a little bit as they have to answer for almost every action they take as public companies.

No, it's definitely on their radar.

I think it's a bubble that's going to burst in AI.

People are already asking questions about what Meta's engineers are doing with their eye-popping pay packages that they received.

And a lot of software engineering work is already getting automated, and OpenAI and Anthropic are being pretty open about that.

They'll regularly release...

results about, hey, this is how good our coding models are.

They're now at the level of an entry level engineer at our company.