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I am noticing so many corporate job postings and rhetoric around "AI acceleration" and removing humans.

I'm wondering in companies or start-ups where it's all like "yeah let's win" do you have normal/fun/goofing off social time with your co-workers - are you happy or does it feel lonelier?

My first growth stage co was a lot of fun mostly because of the random acts of tech company non-sense my team and I joked around with (think Silicon Valley TV show all ways blue or stupid tangent kind of nerdy stuff), but I am noticing in my last 2-3 years everything seems about total execution and these moments seem lost.

I get that we want competent team members and want to do well, but I'm genuinely wondering if the workplace is changing to lose a lot of the specialness/aliveness of the "valley feeling" of a tech co.

Anecdotal or ?

I find it surprising how the stickiness of most of Meta's products revolve around the idea that, in essence, there is no equivalent "SMS" (provided by all telephony / telecommunications data plans) but over data rather than SMS? I.e., you use IG messenger or WhatsApp but you can't talk to users who are not on IG messenger or WhatsApp like you could just SMS someone with a regular phone.

I know there's Signal, Viber, WhatsApp etc, but all these services require you to register with the service provider rather than being able to send a data based message from User A with Telco Z to User B with Telco Y.

Has there been standards before? Any thoughts on why it hasn't emerged?