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AI engineers report burnout, rushed rollouts as 'rat race' to stay competitive
AI workers across the tech industry told CNBC that the pressure to roll out features and products at breakneck speed has come to define their jobs.
AI workers at other Big Tech companies, including Google and Microsoft, told CNBC about the pressure they are similarly under to roll out tools at breakneck speeds due to the internal fear of falling behind the competition in a technology that, according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, is having its"iPhone moment." They spoke of accelerated timelines, chasing rivals' AI announcements and an overall lack of concern from their superiors about real-world effects, themes that appear common across a broad spectrum of the biggest tech companies — from Apple to Amazon to Google. A software engineer at a major internet company, which the person asked to keep unnamed due to his group's small size, said the new team he works on dedicated to AI advancement is doing large language model research "because that's what's hot right now."
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