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Business Insider slop; Hacker News should not become Reddit. We've been talking about recessions since 2022.

We are only slowing growth after a big jump in hiring during COVID 2020-2022... these attention grabbing slop headlines are junk news.

"We’ve lost 50k jobs last two years after decades of adding 100k+ every year including the pandemic highs of 300k+ per year. Total employment remains way above 2000s, 2008 and 2020 unlike the title suggests."

See the thread here for more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47278426

"Business Insider" is a waste of time in my opinion.

Meta, and other large companies have been encouraging PMs to code, while I've seen many negative responses from engineers having to code review, debug, deal with production issues, etc. stemming from crappy code they don't understand. Metrics and KPIs are being gamed into stupid incentives like lines of code, commits, and tickets closed. Leadership claims they are aware of Goodhart's Law, but their actions show otherwise.

Overall the rise of business types in tech company leadership has led to a drop in engineering quality, a rise in short term metrics, and fiascos like the COVID overhiring into multiple rounds of layoffs.

Is ought fallacy. Just because this is happening, doesn’t mean it should happen. Cannot derive morality from current situation. See Hume