They already had this up their sleeve having basically driven research in LLMs and having the largest dataset in the world. It's not a haphazard jumping in, more of a "okay we're starting to see some activity and commercial application in this space, now it's time to show what we've been working on". As a monopoly in search it would not have made sense for Google to move first.

I'm trying to shine a light where David Ha is likely trying to quietly hide his intentions as a bad actor. And to memorialise what he is doing (so that when the backtracking comes we have evidence of it)

Would one work for him now that we know he is revelling in Twitter engineers being trampled upon?

Because I follow him and so do many others. When you like something it shows your followers the tweets. And he's a public face of ML on social media so many people will be concerned at his cheerleading.

While most in ML and tech are expressing dismay (e.g Chollet), it is just concerning that he seems to be revelling in what is happening to Twitter engineers (of whom I know a few)

Interesting to contrast the reactions of Chollet (ML library engineer at Google) vs Ha (former Goldman Sachs, 'strategy' guy). Chollet is vociferously speaking about the impacts that will come when you shut down engineering

It's not about socialism, it's about how you approach engineering as a culture. Remember Elon asking for prints of diffs and LOC counts? Now he's asking for screenshots of 'salient code'.

One tweet David Ha liked today says "Elon musk told Twitter employees “do actual work or you’re fired” and 85% of the staff left instantly 💀💀💀". That is toxic to say that people who didn't want to put up with this are useless and lazy