Snowflake lays off documentation staff after they train AI replacement

cedporter 24 points 18 comments March 23, 2026
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swingboy

More disenfranchised employees to be soldiers in the Butlerian Jihad.

conartist6

Sounds like a company digging its own grave by forcing its employees to dig their own graves

ivraatiems

I'm sure this will work out well and in no way impact the quality of their product.

AndrewKemendo

The brutal part: they made the senior writers spend their final 6 weeks "knowledge transferring" to the AI system I’ve said this for decades: The future is transfer learning from humans to machines until the point where bootstrapping new behaviors doesn’t need a human

morgango

A young Kim Catrall had a Vulcan commentary on this: https://www.elastic.co/customers

spzb

>Documentation quality hasn't dropped because the AI learned from the best Yet

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