From what I gather from the Perplexity CEO, he is just that type of Musk-tier cringelord, so yes, probably

My god, could he have chosen a name more cringe than this? Fuck.

Honestly, just never use link shorteners. QR codes have basically completely killed their use-case, and various sharing tools take care of what little QR codes do not.

Llama has several restrictions making it quite a bit less open than Grok or DeepSeek.

This is the best way to do headcount reductions imo. In large organisations there’s always someone who’s been there for a long time and gotten tired of the work, and that would gladly take this type of offer if it’s lucrative enough.

To demonstrate - imagine that you’ve been considering quitting your job for a while. Then someone comes along and says that if you do that, you also get some additional cash for free. You’d probably take it, right?

And if you necessarily need to reduce headcount, then there’s also the argument that if someone leaves voluntarily, then someone who wants to stay doesn’t have to get pushed out.

So yeah, I’m not against this