The tech industry is supposed to be the cradle of innovation—but it’s become a redoubt of waste and unproductivity.

Minh Nguyen

Ruby

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Tech workers are not as productive as portrayed. Many software engineers work only a few hours a day. Google's founders-first mentality leads to a multitude of failed projects and inefficient management. The platform economy relies on extracting profits through rents rather than productive labor. This business model hampers innovation in the tech industry.

It’s All Bullshit

I think that big Tech will be changing a lot in the near future.

It’s not just in tech, it’s a crisis in human nature that the larger our organization gets, the more it succumbs to political torpor. We would be better served by 10,000 ramen profitable startups.

If you think that’s bad, dig into Keynesian economics a bit. I hate to say it, but its turtles (or I guess bullshit) all the way down.

As AI/ML field is getting bigger
others domains like web are less
interested compare to that so developers has less work to do in
the company like google or meta imo.