The guy who caught the xz backdoor was a Microsoft engineer who noticed SSH logins taking half a second longer and just had to find out what was going on.
They’ve got proper engineers, they’re just assigned shit projects and tasks. I reckon they’re now being told to shoehorn AI in whereever possible.
Those are typically the people that get let go because management thinks they’re overpaid and wasting time on trivial things like finding out why something is taking a half second longer than normal.
Oh I’m sure there’s some super talented people there. They’re just not working very hard to get their stuff done because it’s easy.
Now we’re testing if they’re willing to do the same but also sit in an office probably an hour away, for fun.
It’s just a layoff workout laying people off, except you keep your worst workers for sure
The guy who caught the xz backdoor was a Microsoft engineer who noticed SSH logins taking half a second longer and just had to find out what was going on.
They’ve got proper engineers, they’re just assigned shit projects and tasks. I reckon they’re now being told to shoehorn AI in whereever possible.
Those are typically the people that get let go because management thinks they’re overpaid and wasting time on trivial things like finding out why something is taking a half second longer than normal.