r/singularity

The companywide purge is taking place in three massive waves, as employees across the world are notified in emails at 4 a.m. local time in their respective regions.

Singapore staffers were the first to receive the doomsday emails.

The trend before was that models became less expensive for their capabilities, many corporations bet on that, and it backfired. Opus 4.7, GPT 5.5, Gemini 3.5 flash. Pretty more expensive than expected. Especially the latter for what it's worth. Any reason why? I know there are more parameters, but is that the only reason?

edit: im talking about frontier models.

We seem to be heading toward a world where humans supervise algorithms more than they create anything themselves, which has me wondering what a good balance looks like in the future for AI/humans. A few years ago the conversation was about AI taking over repetitive, low-skill tasks. But AI has advanced a lot faster I think then most people expected so now we're seeing alot of entry level jobs disappaearing. Entry level jobs are mostly going away, so will people need to start apprenticing from high school or university to get into the field they need now? Which brings another question, how will people can still build foundational skills when AI is handling the work that used to develop them? Are people going to be AI generalists until they get taken on by a company that is willing to train them to be specialists that oversee the AI? (Are we skipping the entry role tier entirely) What’s your take? Especially across different industries ligke healthcare, marketing, data science?. Is this a temporary disruption or are we actually at the point where the entry-level market is disappearing completely?

(Note this isn't a doom post even though it might be coming off that way, I'm just trying to visualise what the world will look like with this route).