S6:E2 - Software Complexity, Facebook’s Facial Recognition System, and the Use of AI in a Mass Layoff

In this episode, we talk about Facebook’s plan to shut down its Facial Recognition System, and a mass firing at a Russian payment services company fueled by AI productivity measurement tools. Then we speak with Scott Carey, enterprise technology journalists at InfoWorld, about how the growing complexity of modern software systems might be “killing” software developers.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• The Metaverse Is Mark Zuckerberg’s Escape Hatch
• An Update On Our Use of Face Recognition
• Xsolla fires 150 employees using big data and AI analysis, CEO’s letter causes controversy
• Xsolla founder on mass layoffs and AI-based employee appraisal system: “Stories of fear sell better than those of hope”
• Xsolla former employee on layoffs and Agapitov’s character: “It’s like a small cult of personality, Perm style”
• Complexity is killing software developers

Scott Carey

Scott is a technology reporter at InfoWorld, where he covers software development and cloud computing.