John Gruber

do your job so well and so successfully that we can teach a computer how to do it and thus fire you.

And this is happening right next to meta preparing to lay off like 10% of the company.

The macro of this is really, really, really ugly.

And I think people are right to be mad about this.

My thing is just everyone should have already been mad about this, I think is what I'm saying.

Like the AI of it all is bad, but so is the fact that your boss has been able to use the number of keystrokes you enter in a day in your performance review.

It's a thing they can do.

I agree, and I don't think it's going to work.

Again, I think I would be more outraged if I thought this was actually going to work for meta.

With 8,000 fewer employees as of next month.

Those two things absolutely unequivocally go hand in hand.

And this is what everybody keeps saying, right?

If you believe AI is going to be as good as everybody says, you're going to fire a lot of people on your team and your stock price is going to go up as a result.

And that is what has been happening.

And it keeps happening.

And I think everyone who works at these companies should be mad about it.

I just think you should have already been mad.

Yeah.

Not interested.

I think you're probably right.