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Not only the structure, the wording is also identical: "Today I’m sharing some of the most difficult changes we’ve made in Meta’s history." "Today we’re annou
by lafreb 4y ago
Not only the structure, the wording is also identical:
"Today I’m sharing some of the most difficult changes we’ve made in Meta’s history."
"Today we’re announcing the hardest change we have had to make at Stripe to date."
"At the start of Covid, the world rapidly moved online and the surge of e-commerce led to outsized revenue growth."
"At the outset of the pandemic in 2020, the world rotated overnight towards e-commerce."
"There is no good way to do a layoff, but we hope to [...] do whatever we can to support you through this."
"There’s no good way to do a layoff, but we’re going to [...] do whatever we can to help."
etc.
- hiyer 4y agoStartup idea - layoff mail generator using GPT-3.
- klyrs 4y agoWhy stop at HR, the whole c-suite is a massive cost center and ripe for disruption.
- dopidopHN 4y agoExactly. GPT3 for conversations, some humain actor giving enough materials so the C suite can appears in all hands and the likes thought realistic model ( not the meta crap ) The rest is implementation details.
- deltasevennine 4y agoWhy stop at the c-suite? We may not be close to being ready to disrupt software engineering but the trend is heading in that direction. We already passed a milestone for code generation. Realistically, C-suite probably will probably target engineers first before letting themselves get replaced by AI. It may be fractionally partially responsible for the current layoff.
- klyrs 4y agoHey now, that's my job ;)
- arminiusreturns 4y agoRecently there was an ask hn that was "What SaaS do you wish existed". My response was "c-suite replacment". I've been priveledged enough to see the insides of hundreds of companies. The problem is ALWAYS the leadership! (or lack thereof)
- klyrs 4y agoI haven't seen inside very many, but when I was at university I participated in bargaining with the execs there; I've also interacted with execs of the small- and medium-sized companies I've worked at. Regardless of the purpose and scale of the organization, they all seemed to be emitting the same blandishments, always loosely correlated to context...
- ddalex 4y agoNo need to go fancy when copy paste will suffice
- peteradio 4y agoI could do it in 50 lines or less of python, including sending the mail to the loosers.
- macNchz 4y agoI experimented with making a GPT-3 excuse generator for getting out of work/school a while ago^. We can look forward to a future of incredible synergy, as employees dodge work with AI generated notes and are summarily fired by an AI! ^I didn’t get very far because realistic excuses were boring and I had more fun trying to get it to come up with increasingly bizarre ones: “I can’t come in today because…” - I'm made of glass, so I'm stuck in the mirror dimension - I am now a living manifestation of numbers, so I can't leave my house - I've become a sentient, living version of the internet, so I am now the human race's collective conscience - I am now an extra dimensional being made of fire, so I am now on fire - I am now a living, malevolent, super intelligent, hyper dimensional cloud, so I am now an intangible, invisible, shapeless, omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent, infinitely powerful, god like entity, I am now everything and nothing
- selimthegrim 4y ago> - I am now a living manifestation of numbers, so I can't leave my house I guess GPT-3 has never played Numberwang
- metadat 4y agoPlease create a writeup on this, utterly hilarious.
- chank 4y agoLayoffs have become so normalized these days, I'm sure they have templates.
- paulcole 4y agoThe wording is quite similar but I don’t think identical is the word you’re looking for.
- stulentsev 4y ago- hey, can I copy your homework? - sure, but change it so it doesn't look like a copy
- treffer 4y agoAt least the last sentence reminds me of "The hard thing about hard things".
- KingOfCoders 4y agoCorporate robots are the same everywhere.
- shswkna 4y ago
- KingOfCoders 4y agoExactly! My #TF2 nick is "Sheep with a gun"!
- shswkna 4y agoI replied by editing my original comment. I got flagged, so I thought it appropriate to edit my comment to motivate what I posted. My comment ‘Sheep commentors everywhere’ was a reply to your post ‘Corporate robots everywhere’, intending to mirror the original comment. I tried to elaborate this in my edited update of my comment above. I can see why it got flagged, but my intention was different to how it was understood, IMO.
- marcus0x62 4y agoThe two companies probably hired the same consulting firm to plan their respective layoffs.
- threeseed 4y agoAlso known as best practice. The whole point of HR/PR in these situations is to make the situation as forgettable as possible.
- alvis 4y agoHonestly I think GTP-3 can generate a much better human-touched message than the template
- osigurdson 4y ago
- alvis 4y agoCorporate robots are the same, that's why corporate mistakes are also the same :/
- ChrisRR 4y agoProbably from a "How to make people redundant" template
- bhouston 4y agoSomeone did crib the Stripe layoff notice at Meta. Strange, but yeah, obviously someone at Meta did base it on this Stripe one.
- bombcar 4y agoI dare say that once some are out the others look to them and copy what they can if it worked. I bet they may even adjust severance etc to be slightly better than previous ones to make the company look better. Facebook can afford to spend money on PR.
- texasbigdata 4y agoDon’t they share either Kleiner or Anderson horowitz as common investors and board members?
- dontwatchthis 4y agowell they saw the postive feedback that the Stripe comments got and plagiarised it
- papito 4y agoSeriously. The sweetest words to me would be: "Here is your six months severance and full medical, now get your shit and get out!"
- bjourne 4y agoThat just can't be a coincidence. American tech giants are again colluding to control the job market for software developers.
- z3c0 4y agoWe must have massively different world views, or at least different definitions to colluding. This doesn't survive Hanlon's Razor. At worst, this is corporate corner-cutting, not collusion.
- rufus_foreman 4y agoDon't companies usually use consultants to plan layoffs?
- system2 4y agoThis is scary.
- loeg 4y agoSame layoff consultants?