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If Block were experiencing rapid productivity improvements from AI why is their flagship Square product still worse than Toast? Toast is eating their lunch day after day.
2 months ago they were still using PowerPoints? Jesus no wonder they had to lay so many people off. What the fuck is going on over there?
Block signed a friend of mine, they quit their other job, then block was like whoops layoffs including people like this person who hadn’t even started. Super unethical.
> "I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking," Jobs once said, according to a book published last month by David Pogue. I wonder what he'll think about these vibecoded prototypes and if it's more thinking or less thinking
Block signed a friend of mine, they quit their other job, then block was like whoops layoffs including people like this person who hadn’t even started. Super unethical.
I’ve been in IT for 25 years, it has happened to me once, unfortunately it isn’t that uncommon.
"Just two months ago every meeting that we would have, you see a presentation or a Google Doc and we go through it," Dorsey said. 2 months ago they were still using PowerPoints? Jesus no wonder they had to lay so many people off. What the fuck is going on over there?
Three months ago they were still using Wordstar on IBM XTs. Block is a retro-computing powerhouse.
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