The shareholders demanded a sacrifice. You really think any of the top brass would be affected?
They literally do 1000 times the work the devs do to justify the millions in pay and compensation, and the whole place would grind to a halt if they were affected (/s if you believe that)
When such acquisitions are happening all what happens is that the stock/shares of one company (Activision/Blizzard in this example) is replaced by the stock/shares of another company (MS in this example) and the purchasing price is simply another way of discussing the stock exchange ratio. Company can have zero money to do that.
A coworker screenshotted an AI hallucination yesterday that vomited pages of garbage into their IDE. At least today AI isn’t gonna replace programmers entirely.
68 billion to acquire IP, but can’t afford to pay the people who make and maintain it.
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Doesn’t
Cansn’t
Well, yeah.
The shareholders demanded a sacrifice. You really think any of the top brass would be affected?
They literally do 1000 times the work the devs do to justify the millions in pay and compensation, and the whole place would grind to a halt if they were affected (/s if you believe that)
When such acquisitions are happening all what happens is that the stock/shares of one company (Activision/Blizzard in this example) is replaced by the stock/shares of another company (MS in this example) and the purchasing price is simply another way of discussing the stock exchange ratio. Company can have zero money to do that.
They hardly maintain them anymore…
Probably because they will cut people from,small games and invest in the big Activision franchise
They acquired another company, that always means there will be a lot of redundancies between the two and they need to cut them
a lot of these jobs are among the first where humans are being replaced by AI… it’s not likely to slow down soon…
We’re in open-season mode for AI at my day job. No one’s being replaced by AI.
It’s a great tool for code/copy generation, but it gets so much wrong that now we’re both coders and qa for bots feeding us scaffolding code.
A coworker screenshotted an AI hallucination yesterday that vomited pages of garbage into their IDE. At least today AI isn’t gonna replace programmers entirely.