It's Coca Cola vs Pepsi. Yes some might even say Pepsi has been shown to taste better, but people still buy loads of Coke.
Of course the tech savvy enterprises will use the best models. But the plumber down the road doesn't care whether she asks Gemini or ChatGPT about the sizing of some fittings.
The matter of fact is that big companies (think the usual monorepo business going on in FAANG) don't care about the actual code. The code was never the point of the exercise. Eventually you realize this. Code is like the ether. The company needs it in order to do its thing, and the code needs to be dealt with in order to operate.
In the end it doesn't matter how normalized and pretty you design the database, someone will eventually show up and write a pipeline that dumps every row of it into JSON once an hour and ships it to some far away corner of the company. Someone will write a shitty script to deal with the fact that those rows don't represent a consistent point-in-time snapshot of your database. In the end it doesn't matter anyway, it'll all be rewritten or coerced through some migration into some ugly system in a few months anyway that it doesn't conform to and could never match.
The thing that matters is the process. When you decide you want to do it, do you have the process to mend the ether to do what you need it to do in two months? Do you have the processes in place to catch it when it's so catastrophic it's blowing up your balance sheet?
> The back-loaded vesting schedule is such blatantly cynical bullshit.
I don't understand this. A friend was recently offered an insane pay package from Amazon (compared to another big-tech). The way I saw it, the Amazon pay package was more attractive than the alternative because of the back-loaded vesting schedule.
Basically they pay you out in cash for the first two years, then after that you have an option to keep working there. If the stock price goes down in the first two years, you got your guaranteed cash -- no risk (and it would be a good time to interview again). If the stock price goes up, you now have basically an option on extra exposure in the form of staying longer with highly valued RSUs, and now getting some high proportion of your pay in RSUs.
It just seems straight up better? If you want the stock instead of fungible cash, just buy it on the open market?
Of course the tech savvy enterprises will use the best models. But the plumber down the road doesn't care whether she asks Gemini or ChatGPT about the sizing of some fittings.