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Snowflake lays off documentation staff after they train AI replacement (https://threadreaderapp.com)

25 points by cedporter 1 day ago | 18 comments | View on ycombinator

conartist6 1 day ago |

Sounds like a company digging its own grave by forcing its employees to dig their own graves

morgango 1 day ago |

A young Kim Catrall had a Vulcan commentary on this: https://www.elastic.co/customers

spzb about 24 hours ago |

>Documentation quality hasn't dropped because the AI learned from the best

Yet

ivraatiems 1 day ago |

I'm sure this will work out well and in no way impact the quality of their product.

swingboy 1 day ago |

More disenfranchised employees to be soldiers in the Butlerian Jihad.

AndrewKemendo 1 day ago |

The brutal part: they made the senior writers spend their final 6 weeks "knowledge transferring" to the AI system

I’ve said this for decades: The future is transfer learning from humans to machines until the point where bootstrapping new behaviors doesn’t need a human

ratrace 1 day ago |

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