Depends on your role. If youre in charge of research in a hundred billion dollar org you should absolutely be fired if you devote your org to pie in the sky research instead of creating tangible value. If your job is just doing the research obviously you shouldnt be punished if your experiments dont work. Yann was fired because his main job was balancing product development with research and he didnt do that.

None of these second-rate LLMs are creating tangible value. Nobody has made any money developing LLMs yet, and when the capex runway ends, the second-rate models won't see much (if any) use at all, compute is too precious for that.