1. Disagree. Plenty of companies still care about impact as a key metric in promotion processes so if working more increases impact, then it can increase rewards.

2. Not all this type of work is transactional. I’ve “worked” many extra hours for the pleasure of it, in which case it’s not working instead of living, it is living. This is the spirit of OPs article IMO.

I haven’t read them but there seemed to be some links to other articles about being wise about what you chose to work on, as you say.

Are the incompetent people your coworkers? Ideally you can be solving your customers problems, which is a nice terminating lens of “always useful”, tho you may still want to pick and choose.

I’ve also seen some Really Really Bad software due to engineers having “Not Invented Here” syndrome. If it takes using big well known frameworks to avoid some of that it’s worth the cost.

Appears based on what? What percentage of detainees do you think are illegal vs legal residents?

Law and order and bureaucracy is a seductive, all encompassing, crushing force.

It feels unsavory from the outside, but politics is also the art of getting stuff done. It’s not throwing your life away if you can point at an org chart and a roadmap delivered and say “I helped build that”. Leadership is just as important as implementation.

Booking.com maybe pre-booked the room and was willing to take less profit or even sell it at a loss where the hotel itself wouldn’t.

I would expect so. They have no moat and are in a race to survive.

Employees also have no moat, and that is not unique to OAI. You either work as much as the other people on your team or you get replaced by one of the many people eager to work harder than you for that money.

This assumes a constant stream of an available workforce. Meanwhile, in the US where OpenAI is based, scrutiny and pressure from the current administration is making it harder to hire at their largest locations.

Why is it bad tho?