According to an email The Information viewed, employees were given until August 10 to decide whether they want to take the buyout, which amounts to nine months of salary. Those who choose to stay are reportedly required to spend six days at the office and clock 80+ hour weeks - draconian conditions that have become table stakes among workers at top AI firms.
"When AI leader Andrej Karpathy coined the phrase 'vibe coding' for just letting AI chatbots do their thing when programming, he added, 'It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects ... but it's not really coding.'"},{
Anysphere, maker of AI coding assistant Cursor, is growing so quickly, it's not in the market to be sold, even to OpenAI, a source close to the company tells TechCrunch.