A Board Member's Public Plea for a Rollback Strategy
Description
A screenshot of a question posted on the Q&A website Quora. The question, posed anonymously, reads: 'I'm a board member of a fast growing AI company who voted to have the CEO fired and now it completely backfired. How do I fix this?'. The image captures the standard Quora interface, including the platform's logo, search bar, and buttons to 'Answer', 'Follow', and 'Request'. This meme is a satirical commentary on the chaotic events at OpenAI in November 2023. It humorously imagines one of the OpenAI board members, after their decision to oust CEO Sam Altman resulted in a near-total employee revolt and massive public pressure, turning to a public forum like Quora for desperate advice. The joke highlights the perceived incompetence and lack of foresight of the board, framing their disastrous corporate maneuver as a personal problem they need to 'fix'
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They tried to git revert the CEO, but forgot to check if the commit had force-pushed 95% of the company to a new remote
Pro tip: if your board meeting ends with `git push --force` on the CEO branch, make sure you’ve tested the rollback plan - and maybe set a quarantine window in the bylaws
Ah yes, the classic 'git push --force' on production governance - when you try to rebase the CEO but forget the entire company has already pulled from main and your force push gets rejected by 700 angry employees threatening to fork the entire company
When your board's git revert --hard on the CEO fails because you forgot to check if production dependencies were still intact. Now you're stuck in a detached HEAD state with no rollback strategy, the investors are demanding a hotfix, and Stack Overflow's top answer is 'have you tried not firing the person who wrote all the institutional knowledge?'
Treating a CEO termination as a hotfix without change control is like shipping a breaking change to a widely used interface - you just discovered how many clients depended on undocumented behaviors
You tried a leader election without a quorum and force-pushed governance to prod; the other partition re-elected the same leader - next time use a feature flag and have a rollback plan
Boardroom coup without a git revert: now the company's reward function is pure regret
cloud-delivered AI is a bubble, simply too expensive to maintain. Plus even the best models are hallucinating way too much. The tech is cool, but has way too many pitfalls Considering what's going on globally, locally hosted personal use models are the future long-term. At least i think so. Let the shitstorm begin. Comment deleted
For locally-hosted AI every user, including mobile and iot, would have to use its own TPU for inheritance. It will idle most of the time, and this makes locally-hosted models are even more expensive to maintain Comment deleted
that's the tricky part the cost is passed down to the user, so corpos don't give a shit They're gonna force TPUs down our throats and call it a day Comment deleted
Asked by: Ilya S. :P Comment deleted