Tech workers will start creating unions once they get sick and tired of the current system. That's the one we all live in today where
1) Young developers are pitted against older developers in an effort to drive down the salaries of everyone in the industry.
2) You can be fired at any time for any reason.
3) The whims of management (i.e., workplace politics) are the primary force behind whether or not you are promoted, whether or not you are disciplined, your work assignments, and your career progression.
4) Your working conditions (see "remote work) can be changed at a moment's notice in an effort to make you quit your job, accept a lower salary, or as a backdoor justification to otherwise discriminate against you.
5) Layoffs can happen at any time for any reason (or a reason that's completely made up by your CEO -- see "AI" for the current made up reason of the year), and you have no recourse. You have no right to transfer to another position in your company, return to your job after the economic conditions improve, and often have to sign NDAs or agree to ridiculous conditions to collect your severance (if one is even offered)
6) Threats to outsource your job to a foreign company/"AI" are constantly in the air in an effort to make you feel like you deserve less, work more hours, and constantly audition for your job day in and day out.
You're not exempt from any of this if you're a highly-paid IC who is reading this, by the way. In fact, you should know that they really resent having to pay you your big salary (that's their money), which is why you're always going to have a target on your back. You don't think the managers who currently make less than you get paid aren't resentfully eyeing your line on their spreadsheet?
The way to stop all of this is to unionize. Don't you think it's about time?
No, as someone who is in a union at the moment none of those things change. I have seen all these things happen and more with the union's blessing (and sometimes it was their idea). The only thing that changes is a tap is installed between the corp and the union to funnel money out of our paychecks.
As long as the union bosses get their due they don't care what happens to the rank and file.
The premise of the formula is flawed. There is nothing inherently unfair about a trade deficit between two countries. There's not necessarily anything nefarious going on if the United States doesn't buy the same amount of goods from Botswana as they might purchase from the United States within any particular year.
I mean, if me and my neighbour both print currency on our home laser printers and buy goods from each other, am I being taken advantage of when I end up with more goods and he ends up with more paper?
If you focus on your “comparative advantage” of printing paper and your friend on his comparative advantage of making stuff, then in the long run he’ll win because your economy is fake and his is real.
What does he win? More paper? Less glibly - What does a short term tariff on the goods I’m buying from him do that isn’t already baked in to this “long run” scenario you’re envisioning? Say I mark up all the goods I buy from him and the result is that I have to spend more time making goods - why wouldn’t I just do without tariffs, benefit from as many goods as possible, and then start making more goods myself whenever my neighbour stops accepting my paper?
What EA is asking for is the ability to cut even more corners in their game development pipelines so that they can release a higher volume of unfinished titles, all of which require months of patches to be applied before any of them are reasonably playable.
If you think about what is fundamentally required for a game, in an ideal world, you don’t have any programmers at all—just artists and game designers.
I mean ideal as in the physics notion of an ideal spring, simplified from all of natures forces so it may be modeled in a useful way.
In the same way, an “ideal” game is one separated from its inner workings, and what you’re left with is the user experience, beautiful artwork, music, and engaging entertainment value.
I think this is missing the creative aspect of taking an idea and turning it into reality. Developers spend all day finding the middle ground between an idea that won’t work and a simple realistic solution that will
Sure and that’s a reality today. That process will still happen. We’re talking about AI’s doing that for us don’t forget. And those mechanics will still be driven by prompts and such, but the nitty gritty will be automated.
> Under Rick Osterloh, a new platforms and devices team will be dedicated to bringing AI to your phone, your TV, and everything else that runs Android.
Who is asking for this? Why can't they just make their search engine work again?
Nah, I want them to first fix the basic shit I actually (would) use.
For example, when I'm driving and a timed phone alarm goes off for the Android phone in my pocket, I ask it to silence the alarm, yet instead rebukes me by falsely claiming no alarms are active right now.
It's fixed now that I checked, but for a while it would also secretly ignore the date that I already specified for a scheduled event while it was prompting me to clarify the time of day.
You mean the thing that requires an internet connection or it doesn't work?
And probably will continue needing internet for the foreseeable future, regardless of how many mobile Tensor-chips they develop, because cloud data and compute power will always be orders of magnitude better than your phone?
That's the thing they need specialized mobile-hardware teams involved for?
1) Young developers are pitted against older developers in an effort to drive down the salaries of everyone in the industry.
2) You can be fired at any time for any reason.
3) The whims of management (i.e., workplace politics) are the primary force behind whether or not you are promoted, whether or not you are disciplined, your work assignments, and your career progression.
4) Your working conditions (see "remote work) can be changed at a moment's notice in an effort to make you quit your job, accept a lower salary, or as a backdoor justification to otherwise discriminate against you.
5) Layoffs can happen at any time for any reason (or a reason that's completely made up by your CEO -- see "AI" for the current made up reason of the year), and you have no recourse. You have no right to transfer to another position in your company, return to your job after the economic conditions improve, and often have to sign NDAs or agree to ridiculous conditions to collect your severance (if one is even offered)
6) Threats to outsource your job to a foreign company/"AI" are constantly in the air in an effort to make you feel like you deserve less, work more hours, and constantly audition for your job day in and day out.
You're not exempt from any of this if you're a highly-paid IC who is reading this, by the way. In fact, you should know that they really resent having to pay you your big salary (that's their money), which is why you're always going to have a target on your back. You don't think the managers who currently make less than you get paid aren't resentfully eyeing your line on their spreadsheet?
The way to stop all of this is to unionize. Don't you think it's about time?