Almost all of the OpenAI team signed a letter saying they would resign if the board is not replaced, so safe to say that they do care about the leadership drama; perhaps more than the rest of us.
This is what I suspect; that their silence is possibly not simply evidence of no underlying reason, but that the underlying reason is so sensitive that it cannot be revealed without doing further damage. Also the hastiness of it makes me suspect that whatever it was happened very recently (e.g. conversations or agreements made at APEC).
Ilya backtracking puts a wrench in this wild speculation, so like everyone else, I’m left thinking “????????”.
I was in the same boat as you (loyal Samsung owner, still using my trusty S3) until a few months ago when I decided to go for last year's LG flagship, the G4, and I gotta say I've been extremely displeased with LG. Particularly, the way LG Mobile has handled the many problems that have plagued the G4.
Apparently, catastrophic bootloop failures of the G4 were such a widespread problem, that a petition has so far gained a couple thousand signatures [0] to get LG to officially recall the bricked phones. I personally experienced the bootloop of death on my G4 only a couple of months after getting it, and their customer service has been atrocious - even refusing to fix my phone after they've now admitted its due to a known hardware defect [1] because mine was the international, unlocked version. So, just a heads up to beware LG's "Caveat emptor" practices.
Relevant bit from the latest season of the Startup podcast: https://youtu.be/qfpdzPnElVU?t=738
*spoiler alert - this is toward the end of the season, in case you'd rather listen to the podcast in order
Because the bootcamp industry hasn't been around very long, you're right, there is no good data. But from my experience and the experience of my peers in my class, I believe that adapting to new technologies/new ideas is actually one of our main strengths. Those skills are essentially a pre-requisite to getting through the program.
Your question about the potential to have a normal software engineering career trajectory is a good one (one that I am particularly interested to hear the answer to) and that's why I wish that more employers would speak to this issue. I would venture to guess that my employer would speak highly of Hack Reactor and how prepared HR grads are because they have continued to hire from there, but it would be nice to see how employers actually review these schools and not just the students.
After deeming the academic science career path too exploitative and fraught with landmines, I decided I wanted to being a transition into the tech industry as a software engineer. Only trouble was... I didn't have any of the necessary modern web development skills to actually get hired and it would have probably taken me over a year working 'on the side' to gain them. Having just completed a PhD, I was not in the state where I could have justified going BACK to school for a masters in computer science either. So for my level of experience, place in life, and motivation, the coding bootcamp I attended (Hack Reactor) was the best thing I could have ever hoped for. I worked hard during the program and got a great job as a software engineer only a couple weeks after graduating the program and have been happily employed in my new role for ~7 months so far.
I'm torn on this issue though, because even though I feel that Hack Reactor was worth every penny, I can acknowledge that the "coding bootcamp" space could potentially be littered with shysters and people trying to make a quick buck, taking advantage of students by promoting false hiring stats. I'd welcome for a light to be shined on those programs, but would lament if Hack Reactor specifically gets thrown under the bus or that the tech industry sours on grads of good schools like Hack Reactor because they are labeled as simply "bootcamp grads".
Yeah, I was very surprised to see Athens, GA in the top 5. I was not even aware that they had a substantial public transit system and I lived in GA for ~15 years.
I completely agree with this article, but wonder if it's inevitable for someone to jump in and try to make profit off of services for the public good if there are people out there willing to pay for it.
For example, if we had sufficient parking in the city, these startups would never even cause a blip. Someone must have been driving around for half an hour looking for parking and then thought to themselves that, at that point, they would pay someone good money to just be able to find a spot - and suddenly the idea for a business was born...
I have a PhD in Neuroscience and left the "postdoc treadmill" to be a software engineer. So far I am very happy with my decision and wish I would have read this article before getting my PhD. It's 100% accurate, and everyone in the biological sciences knows it.
This is so dead on. I recently left my post-doc position from a top school, and it evoked such a reaction of "take me with you" from my fellow labmates when I was leaving. The hopelessness is palpable in a lot of grad students/post-docs. Everyone seems to be shopping for a way out. Sad, but very true...
Any advice on how to develop these skills? Would it just be experience?
If so, it seems to me to be a chicken-egg scenario where it sounds like you'd need several years of experience to even get an entry-level or "lowest rung" position in the industry.
I view my "accelerator" experience as just that: an acceleration of my learning, so that I can transition (even if it is at the lowest rung) into an industry that I feel is exciting and fascinating. I view these bootcamps as being the beginning of one's education, not the end.