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Do you work in tech? Tell us how layoffs are affecting your career
Do you work in tech? Tell us how layoffs are affecting your career

Business Insider

time7 hours ago

  • Business
  • Business Insider

Do you work in tech? Tell us how layoffs are affecting your career

The tech industry faces ongoing layoffs amid rapid AI advancements and other economic pressures. Some tech roles are increasingly in-demand, while others are experiencing a decline. Do you work in tech and have thoughts on how the industry is changing? Take BI's survey below. Industry layoffs from Jan to May are up 35% compared to the same period in 2024, according to career transition firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. While the reasons for workforce reductions vary by company, the layoffs have come during a rapid technological shift driven by the emergence of AI. A 2025 World Economic Forum survey found that 41% of companies globally expect to reduce staff in the next five years because of AI. While no one knows exactly how many jobs will be lost due to "AI exposure", the tech industry might be especially vulnerable. As some roles related to AI research and development have grown in demand, others have been on the decline. Job postings for software engineers, once a staple at tech companies, have decreased as tools like Codex and GitHub CoPilot have automated coding tasks, which make up a large part of the job, especially for early-career workers. Amid a shifting landscape, tech leaders have expressed differing opinions about how AI will transform the job market. Some say that AI will create more opportunities to build and, as a result, more jobs. Others, like Anthropic's Dario Amodei, have issued dismal warnings about the imminent elimination of white-collar roles.

OpenAI 前工程師爆料!快速而靈活有如舊日 Facebook?極速擴張而來的代價
OpenAI 前工程師爆料!快速而靈活有如舊日 Facebook?極速擴張而來的代價

Yahoo

time3 days ago

  • Business
  • Yahoo

OpenAI 前工程師爆料!快速而靈活有如舊日 Facebook?極速擴張而來的代價

(FILES) This file photo taken on January 23, 2023 in Toulouse, southwestern France, shows screens displaying the logos of OpenAI and ChatGPT. - Search giant Baidu's lacklustre unveiling of its chatbot exposed gaps in China's race to rival ChatGPT, as censorship and a US squeeze on chip imports have hamstrung the country's artificial intelligence ambitions. (Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP) / NO USE AFTER APRIL 19, 2023 16:00:00 GMT - TO GO WITH "CHINA-TECHNOLOGY-AI-SOFTWARE", FOCUS BY POORNIMA WEERASEKARA & SEBASTIEN RICCI - To go with "China-technology-AI-software", FOCUS by Poornima Weerasekara & Sebastien Ricci OpenAI 在極短時期內走紅並持續擴張,成為科技界灸手可熱的公司,但在惹人艷羨背後,公司內部文化到底是如何演化呢?曾在 OpenAI 工作一年的 Calvin French-Owen 日前發表了一篇詳細的部落格文章,揭露了這家 AI 巨頭公司內部的真實工作環境。French-Owen 曾參與開發 AI 編程助手 Codex,用以與 Cursor 和 Anthropic 的 Claude Code 競爭的新產品。 French-Owen 在文章中透露,OpenAI 在他工作的一年內從 1,000 人快速擴張至 3,000 人。這種驚人的增長速度反映了 ChatGPT 作為史上增長最快消費產品的地位,該平台在今年三月時已擁有超過 5 億活躍用戶並持續快速增長。 有趣的是,OpenAI 員工極度依賴網路協作工具 Slack 來互相溝通,與 Meta 當年仍然名為 Facebook 時期相似,有著 Move Fast and Break Things(高速衝刺,敢於破格)的特性,實際上 OpenAI 也有不少員工是由 Meta 轉投過去。 然而,如此快速的擴張也帶來了巨大挑戰。French-Owen 坦言:「當你擴張得如此之快時,一切都會出問題:公司內部溝通方式、匯報結構、產品發布流程、人員管理和組織方式、招聘流程等等」。這種混亂狀態在公司的技術架構中也有所體現,多個團隊經常重複開發相同功能,他舉例說:「我見過至少六個不同的隊列管理或代理循環庫。 OpenAI Codex 儘管規模已經相當龐大,OpenAI 仍然保持著小型創業公司的靈活性。員工能夠在幾乎沒有繁文縟節的情況下實現自己的想法。French-Owen 描述了他所在的高級團隊如何在僅僅七週內完成 Codex 的開發和發布,團隊包括大約八名工程師、四名研究員、兩名設計師、兩名市場推廣人員和一名產品經理,整個過程幾乎沒有休息。 然而,這種快速發展模式也產生了技術債務。公司的核心代碼庫被形容為「有點像垃圾場」,因為團隊成員的編程技能差異很大,從能夠處理十億用戶的資深 Google 工程師,到缺乏實際編程經驗的新晉博士都有。 作為備受關注的公司,OpenAI 發展出了高度保密的企業文化,試圖防止信息洩露到公眾。同時,公司密切關注 X(前 Twitter)平台上的動態,如果某個帖子病毒式傳播,OpenAI 會看到並可能做出回應。French-Owen 引用朋友的話說:「這家公司跟著 Twitter 的風向運行」。 針對外界對 OpenAI AI 安全承諾的質疑,French-Owen 認為這是對公司最大的誤解[1]。他指出,雖然有些人擔心理論上對人類的風險,但公司內部更關注實際的安全問題,如「仇恨言論、濫用、操縱政治偏見、製造生物武器、自我傷害、提詞攻擊」等。 OpenAI 並非忽視長期潛在影響,公司有研究人員專門研究這些問題,並且清楚意識到數億人正在使用其大語言模型獲取從醫療建議到心理治療等各種服務。 儘管工作環境充滿挑戰,French-Owen 對產品發布時的效果感到驚嘆。他描述 Codex 上線時的情況:「我從未見過一個產品僅僅是出現在左側邊欄就能獲得如此多的即時用戶增長,但這就是 ChatGPT 的力量」。 French-Owen 強調他的離職並非因為任何「內部糾紛」,而是希望重新回到創業者的角色。他是客戶數據初創公司 Segment 的聯合創始人,該公司於 2020 年被 Twilio 以 32 億美元收購。 更多內容: A former OpenAI engineer describes what it's really like to work there 介紹 Codex 緊貼最新科技資訊、網購優惠,追隨 Yahoo Tech 各大社交平台! 🎉📱 Tech Facebook: 🎉📱 Tech Instagram: 🎉📱 Tech WhatsApp 社群: 🎉📱 Tech WhatsApp 頻道: 🎉📱 Tech Telegram 頻道:

An OpenAI employee's farewell letter offers a rare window into what it's like working at the company
An OpenAI employee's farewell letter offers a rare window into what it's like working at the company

Yahoo

time4 days ago

  • Business
  • Yahoo

An OpenAI employee's farewell letter offers a rare window into what it's like working at the company

OpenAI has lost some key talent, but few of them have talked about their time at the company. One employee, Calvin French-Owen, however, recently shared some details. OpenAI has a bottom-up culture where promotions are meritocratic, he said. A lot can happen in a year at OpenAI. Calvin French-Owen, a former member of OpenAI's technical staff who helped launch a series of AI coding tools called Codex, published a lengthy blog post on Tuesday that detailed what happened to him in his year at the company. His blog offers a rare, first-person account of everyday life at OpenAI — insight that its string of recently departed employees haven't provided until now. He said he left about three weeks ago after starting in May 2024. Prior to OpenAI, he was the cofounder of a customer data platform called Segment, according to his LinkedIn profile. He said he's still figuring out what's next. French-Owen said that OpenAI has a "bottoms-up" culture, especially in its research departments. This makes the company "very meritocratic," he said, and people are promoted on their ability to generate ideas and execute them. The most competent, he said, weren't great at all-hands presentations or "political maneuvering." Despite the revelations about CEO Sam Altman's leadership style that surfaced during his brief ousting as CEO in 2023 — and subsequent chatter of culture clashes between the company's academic and corporate factions — French-Owen said the company stays true to its nonprofit origins. "The longer you've been there, the more you probably view things through the 'research lab' or 'nonprofit for good' lens," he wrote. That's not to say the company isn't worried about turning a profit. He said success is mostly measured by the number of subscriptions a new tool or update generates, a key path to profitability. He also said the company doesn't operate like an institution or a tech giant. It makes decisions quickly, teams are fluid, and it can be "very secretive," he said, so he never knew what others were working on in much detail. Another hallmark of the fast-paced, startup-like culture is that most communication takes place on Slack. French-Owen said he received about 10 emails during his whole tenure at OpenAI. But the pace can sometimes backfire. "Everything breaks when you scale that quickly: how to communicate as a company, the reporting structures, how to ship product, how to manage and organize people, the hiring processes, etc," he said. Hours are long, he said, especially as it comes close to a product launch. Some of OpenAI's engineers told media outlets that they were burned out from working 80 hours a week, and the company gave them a week off earlier this month. When the launch of Codex neared, French-Owen said he worked from 7 a.m. to midnight most days, and weekends, too. "The stakes feel really high," he said. "On the one hand, there's the goal of building AGI — which means there is a lot to get right. On the other hand, you're trying to build a product that hundreds of millions of users leverage." Artificial general intelligence is broadly defined as AI that reasons as well as or better than humans. It's what most leading AI companies are competing to develop first. Talent is the key to reaching that goal. The biggest tech companies in the world are throwing millions at a handful of top researchers to win the race to AGI. Meta has been at the forefront of these talent wars. CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently hired Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang to lead its AI efforts, and has recruited some of the top AI researchers in the world from other companies. One of the top places Zuckerberg is poaching from is OpenAI. Jason Wei, who worked on OpenAI's o1 and deep research models, and colleague Hyung Won Chung, both left for Meta this week. Ultimately, French-Owen said there's a chance he'd return to OpenAI. "It's entirely possible that the quality of the work will draw me back," he said. "It's hard to imagine building anything as impactful as AGI, and LLMs are easily the technological innovation of the decade." OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider. Read the original article on Business Insider

India-EU trade deal negotiations: Differences over food safety rules persist, ‘intense work needed' says EU report
India-EU trade deal negotiations: Differences over food safety rules persist, ‘intense work needed' says EU report

Indian Express

time4 days ago

  • Business
  • Indian Express

India-EU trade deal negotiations: Differences over food safety rules persist, ‘intense work needed' says EU report

India and the European Union (EU) continue to differ on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS), which govern food and animal safety rules and are key to India's agricultural and processed food exports to the EU, according to a status report released by the EU on Thursday. This report follows the 12th round of talks earlier this month. This assumes significance as the EU is India's largest and most premium export destination for agricultural items, particularly coffee, tea, spices and rice. However, India's exports to the EU have seen limited growth over the years, rising from $3.02 billion in FY19 to $4.54 billion in FY25, largely due to the stringent standards imposed by the EU on foreign agricultural products. 'Negotiators made some progress on the articles about listing of establishments, regionalisation and risk assessment. Further intense work will still be required on several pending articles, such as harmonisation, technical consultations or dispute settlement. Work will continue on these provisions inter-sessionally and at the next round with the objective to consolidate the chapter's text,' the EU said on the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) chapter. One key argument from the Indian side has been the EU's imposition of pesticide residue regulations and other norms that are often stricter than World Health Organization (WHO) standards. The EU regularly rejects Indian shipments, citing differences in standards, including restrictions on the use of methyl bromide fumigation for certain plant products. According to the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) report in 2022, the EU enforces stringent aflatoxin limits. Aflatoxins are toxins commonly found on agricultural crops such as peanuts, maize (corn), rice and tree nuts, especially in warm and humid climates. 'For instance, the present EU level of aflatoxin in peanuts for direct human consumption is 2 µg/kg for B1 and 4 µg/kg total aflatoxin, and 8 µg/kg B1 and 15 µg/kg total aflatoxin for further processing. However, Codex (WHO standards) has set the maximum limit at 15 parts per billion (PPB) for peanuts,' the EAC-PM report said. 'Also, in spices, the EU has set a stringent limit for aflatoxin B1 and total aflatoxins at 5 PPB and 10 PPB respectively, applicable to chillies and several other spices. However, the US permits aflatoxin levels (total) of 20 PPB for all spices,' the report said. In the Rules of Origin chapter, the EU report stated that the negotiations cover both procedures and product-specific rules related to agricultural and processed agricultural products, fish products, chemical and petroleum products. Discussions also covered wood and paper products, machinery, and industrial items such as railways, aircraft, ships, and medical devices. 'Discussions focused on both market access (tariff schedules) and the remaining articles of the chapter's text. EU and India explored whether solutions could be found for the pending issues in the text. On market access, detailed discussions continued on both industrial products and the agri-food sector,' the report on the Trade in Goods chapter said.

Google's head of Android said the computer science major needs a 'rebrand'
Google's head of Android said the computer science major needs a 'rebrand'

Business Insider

time4 days ago

  • Business
  • Business Insider

Google's head of Android said the computer science major needs a 'rebrand'

Even Google's head of Android, Sameer Samat thinks the computer science major needs a rebrand. "It is thought of as, 'go learn how to do Java coding,'" Samat said of the major, adding that if that's what you want to do, "you don't need a degree." That's not how Samat, who studied computer science himself at UC San Diego, views a major in computer science. "It's definitely not learning to code," Samat said. "It is the science, in my opinion, of solving problems." While coding is a skill taught as part of the major, the discipline is more about breaking down problems, learning how to design a system, and collaborating on those tasks, Samat said. As software engineering becomes more automated, more individuals are beginning to question the practicality of pursuing a computer science degree. AI is increasingly handling fundamental tasks like coding, making it harder for some computer science graduates to secure full-time positions and internships. To be clear, Samat still thinks the degree is valuable and that "learning to code is really important," even as tools like Codex become more prominent and companies like Google and Meta and generate some code with AI. The head of Android said that when he learned to code, people had just stopped learning Assembly, a low-level programming language, and started coding in other languages. Samat said he still learned how to write code with Assembly because it was instructive on how the machine underneath works. There will always be a higher, more abstract language that computer programmers will learn to build new technology, Samat said. "Maybe someday it'll be natural language, where we're just talking about what we want, and something is building the underlying software for you," Samat said. But he doesn't think that time will come for "a while." Students shouldn't become computer science majors just because they think others will find it valuable, Samat said. The Android executive said that mindset won't necessarily be shared by their prospective employer, and job seekers should have "passion" outside of computer science. "I don't think that the degree enough is enough to make yourself relevant for some of the most important companies," Samat said, adding that you need to take it "to the next level." Samat draws from personal experience, having launched two startups in his early twenties, one of which led to an introduction to Sergey Brin. He said that building a startup early in his career ultimately made him a more effective contributor when he later joined Google. Whatever other interest you have, said Samat, "I think it's really important that it be something that you're really excited about going deep in and really becoming a 5% top expert in the field."

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