msylor , 13 days ago @pluralistic If you haven't seen it, this article in IEEE Spectrum is just nuts. https://spectrum.ieee.org/unicorn-startup Just like Amazon's grab and go stores, the whole company is smoke and mirrors hiding a team of Filipino workers who do the actual work. The author, Benjamin Shestakofsky, has writing a book "Behind the Startup" about his experience embedded there. https://bookshop.org/p/books/behind-the-startup-how-venture-capital-shapes-work-innovation-and-inequality-benjamin-shestakofsky/20685145?ean=9780520395039 This company is going to be enshittified in record time. I bet it's claiming AI drives it's matching to VCs.
@pluralistic If you haven't seen it, this article in IEEE Spectrum is just nuts. https://spectrum.ieee.org/unicorn-startup Just like Amazon's grab and go stores, the whole company is smoke and mirrors hiding a team of Filipino workers who do the actual work. The author, Benjamin Shestakofsky, has writing a book "Behind the Startup" about his experience embedded there. https://bookshop.org/p/books/behind-the-startup-how-venture-capital-shapes-work-innovation-and-inequality-benjamin-shestakofsky/20685145?ean=9780520395039
This company is going to be enshittified in record time. I bet it's claiming AI drives it's matching to VCs.