No country can survive this level of waste and stupidity. Not even the US.

Keep in mind, Carmack heads an AI company now. His opinion should be viewed with that context.

This is absolutely backwards.

Let's not imply the world changed on its own. Trump changed it.

"or 1M+ monthly NPM downloads"

Right, because Node is the only package ecosystem.

"owning" the decision doesn't mean anything. It's just words.

One day there will be a CEO who actually pays the severances out of their own compensation.

So, like Nintendo and other Japanese and Chinese companies where the CEO of a company treats the company like their child and takes the hit when they make errors?

Or maybe like the US employer that gave everyone at the company a flat wage?

Even better they fire themself, the exec team can replace them with AI

Agree materially no consequences but still better than many deflection strategies we have seen from others during layoffs.

It is but those words could be long flowery corpo speak or short.

“Yall gonna get money and most yall fired. My bad woops”

The CEO's last visionary move was to go all in on crypto, even renaming the company. Now he's a visionary again, but firing half the company instead of himself.

The recursive type constraints are excellent.

The snap judgement is what makes it fun.

As always, she's preferred because she intends to welcome US oil companies. Winning a prize is a red herring.