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300 freshers laid off by Zoho. No notice. No explanation. They turned down TCS, Cognizant & Capgemini for this. One full-time employee asked "are you replacing us with trainees?" and shortly after: 300 young careers were paused. These weren't job hoppers. They were kids from small towns whose families were depending on that paycheck. Freshers don't come to replace you. They come to learn from you. The real question is: who's protecting entry-level talent in Indian tech?

Unfortunately, we will see more of this. The transition period will not be super smooth, but it also won’t be a doom and gloom apocalypse like the media is portraying (for clicks). Mainstream media plays a big part in brainwashing people into doing things like that. "You will lose your job to AI." They don’t mention the abundance part, which is crucial. 1000x higher productivity thanks to AI means a ~1000x larger economy. It also means a 1000x bigger state budget (crucial point here: many people, for some reason, forget that taxes won’t disappear. If those companies earn 1000x more and still pay the same tax rates, the government budget will collect 1000x more money.), so ideas like UHI, giving everybody $10 000 per month to cover rent, food, bills, nice lifestyle will be trivial in a 100x-1000x larger economy. In a mature post AGI economy, no one will be dying from hunger or ending up on the street. Whether you will have a job or not, you will be okay and have a better lifestyle than today.

Teacher at a school, earning 80K salary, cannot even spelling basic words in Hindi It is Amritkaal, everywhere

A newborn sperm whale can’t swim. It starts sinking the second it’s born. If nobody pushes it to the surface, it drowns in mile-deep water. On July 8, 2023, a sperm whale named Rounder went into labor off the coast of Dominica. Researchers from Project CETI, a $33 million AI initiative out of MIT, Harvard, and Northeastern that’s trying to decode whale language, happened to be there doing routine fieldwork. They had drones in the air and underwater microphones running. What they captured over the next six hours just got published in two papers, one in Science and one in Scientific Reports. Eleven whales gathered at the surface before Rounder even started delivering. Her mother, Lady Oracle, was there. So was her daughter Accra. Three generations in the water. But the wild part: half those whales belonged to a completely separate bloodline that normally keeps its distance from Rounder’s family. On a typical day, these two family lines split off to hunt in different areas and rarely cluster together. For the birth, they all converged before labor started. The unrelated family somehow knew it was coming. The delivery took 34 minutes. Sperm whale calves come out tail-first with their flukes still folded from the womb. They haven’t developed the oil-filled organ in their heads that helps adult whales float, so the moment they’re born, they’re dead weight in the ocean. Every adult whale in the group, related and unrelated, started taking turns pushing the calf up to breathe. They kept this rotation going for three hours. When a pod of pilot whales (known to be aggressive toward sperm whales) and a large group of Fraser’s dolphins showed up during delivery, the adults formed a wall around the newborn until the threat passed. The underwater audio is where it gets interesting. CETI’s microphones picked up the whales changing their vocal patterns during the birth. The click-based sounds they use to talk to each other shifted at specific moments, and vowel-like structures appeared in the recordings. This builds on what CETI found in 2024 when they ran machine learning on over 8,700 recorded whale calls and discovered sperm whale communication isn’t a basic 21-sound code. It’s a system of about 300 distinct sound combinations, with the whales adjusting rhythm and timing in real time, speeding up and slowing down the way a musician does mid-performance. A 2025 follow-up from UC Berkeley found these clicks also contain vowel patterns, something scientists had assumed only humans could produce. Sperm whales carry the largest brain of any animal on the planet. About 9 kg. Roughly six times heavier than yours. The evolutionary analysis in the new Science paper suggests this kind of cooperative birthing goes back over 36 million years, to the common ancestor of all toothed whales. The calf was spotted a year later, swimming with its family.

It’s easy to dunk on Geoffrey Hinton for his 2016 declaration that it was “completely obvious” that radiologists would have no jobs within 5 years, while in fact, the number of radiologists has grown. But this prediction was more than a simple mistake. It’s a synedoche for the entire discourse of AI timelines and doom.

The best is "rent seeking", imagine not working a day and still getting lakhs at the end of the month.

You can just do things (genetically sequence your dog’s tumors and design a bespoke mRNA cancer vaccine to save her life)