How to build a DOA product: Humane AI Pin founders banned internal criticism
arstechnica.com
Questioning the design and dev progress was apparently "against company policy."
  • maol@awful.systemsEnglish
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    6 months ago

    In January, Humane laid off about 10 employees. A month later, a senior software engineer was let go after she questioned whether the Ai Pin would be ready by April. In a company meeting after the dismissal, Mr. Chaudhri and Ms. Bongiorno said the employee had violated policy by talking negatively about Humane, two attendees said.

      • deborah@awful.systemsEnglish
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        6 months ago

        There’s only one way in the US, where most employment is at-will, to have a contract that prevents getting fired for a completely boneheaded reason.

        /me bursts into chorus of L’Internationale and is dragged to the gate by admins, off-key singing the entire track listing of Chumbawamba’s “English Rebel Songs 1381–1914” dopplering off into the distance as I go.