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@BenjaminBadejo When they file to go public, we’ll know how much things cost.

You have no idea what it actually costs. None. Neither do I. It could easily be the case that subscriptions are closer to true cost and API billing is a crazy massive cash grab. In fact, I bet that’s EXACTLY what’s happening.

@CNBC Sure, the CEO of Coca Cola is totally affected by AI. They had some other reason to bail. Blame the robot is becoming boring.

Two major CEOs told CNBC in recent months that the rise of artificial intelligence contributed to their decisions to hand over the reins and step down from their positions. It’s one of the latest insights into how America’s corporate leaders are sizing up the AI transition. cnb.cx/4uTk2yJ

A survey of about 750 chief financial officers found that most expect AI will lead their companies to trim only a small number of their overall jobs this year on.wsj.com/4t8wwB3

It’s trendy to cite artificial intelligence when cutting jobs, but the reality is more complicated on.wsj.com/4t2CO54

@JobsNowPR @USTechWorkers The Supreme Court yesterday said your ISP has no liability and best of luck to them saying showing hidden job ads, they’re required by law to post for H1B apps, isn’t fair use. Post the jobs and post the attorney demand letters. Embarrass them.

ATTENTION! INSTACART is BACK! They are advertising for engineers and managers in San Francisco, fully remote, 200k+! We can't post Instacart jobs on the site because they threatened our hosting provider with copyright... would be a shame if US engineers applied for these!

@JosephKChoi @garrytan Wrapper startups. Like Amazon, which wraps a database. Or Google, wrapping a catalog. Or Meta, wrapping a social graph. Obnoxious and disparaging term. If they’re just making chatbots, sure. Otherwise, they’re hopefully doing something new and different.

talked to a YC founder who asked Sam Altman straight up "will OpenAI compete in my space / kill my startup"⁣ ⁣ the answer: behavioral health requires knowing if users are actually improving. OpenAI doesn't have that data, the wrapper startups do. v bullish for consumer AI

@venturetwins @garrytan My 20 year old daughter wants her millions.

I don't want to be an asshole here, but I'm worried we're losing the concept of personal responsibility

@TheMossadIL @BenjaminBadejo She’s demonstrating how academics will outright fabricate material and using her Harvard credentials to push blatant lies. Harvard should be ashamed.

This post should single handedly weaken the value of a Harvard PhD.

@802direct @jasonlk @HarryStebbings @rodriscoll These people are themselves living in the past, especially Harry. They’re so focused on startups getting huge they’ve totally lost how small ones are likely to thrive and they entirely don’t seem to understand how enterprises buy or use software.

@jasonlk @HarryStebbings @rodriscoll Hiring based on AI experience is a joke. Don't think you're special because of the AI solution that you are using. What did it take, a week for you to learn how to do something? Life experience adds more value in using AI than the experience of using AI.

@TrevorSheatz Wonderful piece, assuming your wife doesn’t mind. I’m Jewish and yet the biblical lesson resonates (then again, my father is a rabbi so I’m from a religious family). Some conduct obviously is more difficult to overcome than others but promiscuity? Oh well.,.

My wife was formerly promiscuous. I was a virgin. She was then radically born-again. Committed to church, evangelized constantly, Puritan books in her bedroom, prayer journals, grief over past sexual sin, etc. We got to know each other well for over a year, dated for four months, engaged for two and a half, and didn't sin sexually with one another. Our first kiss with each other was at the altar on our wedding day (reaction pic attached!). We've been married for over five years now, and she's been the most wonderful and godly wife, mother to our three children, and homemaker you could imagine. She's more pure than most virgins, as biblical purity has less to with past sins (though they certainly matter) and more to do with one's current posture of the heart and daily decisions to honor the Lord (Matt. 5:8). We're far too quick to forget the story of the woman labeled as a known "sinner" (likely a prostitute) in Luke 7:36-50 who was washing Jesus' feet with her tears while kissing them too. The Pharisees were shocked that Jesus let a public sinner do this. Jesus responded with a parable about debts being forgiven and ended with this powerful conclusion: "Her many sins have been forgiven; that’s why she loved much. But the one who is forgiven little, loves little" (Luke 7:47). Everyone seems to highlight the benefits of virginity, and it certainly is a blessing. But we forget to highlight the benefits of being forgiven much as well. My wife knows the depths of Jesus' forgiveness more than most people, enabling her to more easily live out a life of passionate love for her Savior. A woman or man's past sexual sin matters. But what matters far more when it comes to deciding who to marry is if the person is truly born again, if their repentance is real, if they truly have a heart for Christ, if they truly follow Jesus and obey his commands. "God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong. God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world ​— ​what is viewed as nothing ​— ​to bring to nothing what is viewed as something, so that no one may boast in his presence. It is from him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom from God for us ​— ​our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, — in order that, as it is written: 'Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.'" (1 Cor. 1:27-31) "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!" (2 Cor. 5:17)

@TheGeorgePu Dow is cutting 12.5% of its workforce. Nike is cutting 1%. HSBC is cutting ~10%. AI driven? No. Dow posted a net loss of $2.6 billion. Nike revenue is down. HSBC has been shrinking headcount for 15 years straight. AI is just an excuse.

Dow is cutting 4,500 jobs. They make chemicals. Nike is cutting 775. They make shoes. HSBC is cutting 20,000. They move money. None of these are tech companies. That's the part people keep missing.

@Hitchslap1 This isn't a surprise given it's usually women who initiate a divorce. Men seem to recover from conflict quicker and more fully whereas women tend to mull things over more. This creates grievance and resentment and, thus....

Lesbians have the least stable marriages. Gay men have the most stable marriages. I’m yet to hear a good explanation for this.

@r0ck3t23 He put his whole company in hoc if AI doesn’t conquer the world, like tomorrow. All these FUD monsters seem to be massively conflicted.

Larry Ellison just told every software engineer on Earth their job description is dead. Not evolving. Dead. Ellison: “The code that Oracle is writing, Oracle isn’t writing. Our AI models are writing.” This is not a startup demo. This is one of the largest infrastructure monopolies on the planet telling you it already replaced the people who built it. For fifty years, building software meant translating human intent into machine instructions. Line by line. Bug by bug. Sprint by sprint. That entire layer is gone. Ellison: “We don’t write the procedure. We declare our intent.” That sentence just made the entire engineering labor market flinch. The procedure was the job. The procedure was the paycheck. The procedure was what made a developer valuable. And now the machine does it without being asked twice. Ellison: “We just tell the model what we want the program to do, and then the AI comes up with a step-by-step process to actually do it.” You are no longer paid to build. You are paid to think. And most organizations have no idea how to evaluate that. The companies still hiring armies of developers to grind through codebases are paying salaries the machine already made worthless. Not in years. In seconds. When a company worth hundreds of billions hands the keyboard to the machine and tells you the output is better, the debate is not winding down. The debate is over. The enterprise that wins this decade does not write the best code. It removes the human from the process entirely and runs on intent alone. The programmers who survive are the ones who realize the craft is no longer typing. It is architecture. It is judgment. It is knowing what to build and why. Everything else now belongs to the machine. And the machine does not negotiate severance.

@Ric_RTP That’d be the same report that said, oh yeah - AI productivity has been measured at zero.

Goldman Sachs just published the list of jobs AI will eliminate first. 300 million jobs globally. 25% of all US work hours. And that's not in 10 years, it's starting NOW. Highest risk of displacement according to Goldman: 1. Computer programmers 2. Accountants 3. Auditors 4. Legal assistants 5. Administrative assistants 6. Customer service reps 7. Telemarketers 8. Proofreaders 9. Copy editors 10. Credit analysts. 46% of all office and administrative tasks can be automated. 44% of legal work. 37% of architecture and engineering. 36% of science. 35% of business and finance. These aren't warehouse jobs. These aren't factory floor positions. These are the careers parents told their kids to pursue. "Go to college. Get a degree. Get a desk job. You'll be safe." Goldman Sachs just told you that desk is getting emptied. And the data is already showing up in real time: Tech employment as a share of the US economy has dropped below its long-term trend for the first time since records began. Marketing consulting, graphic design, office administration, and call centers are all seeing employment growth fall below trend. Younger workers are getting hit first and hardest. Goldman's lead economist said it directly: "The big story in 2026 in labor will be AI." But here's what the report doesn't mention: Goldman Sachs is one of the biggest investors in the companies BUILDING the AI that eliminates these jobs. They underwrote OpenAI's funding rounds. They're advising on the $700 billion in AI infrastructure spending this year. They profit from every merger, every capex deal, every stock offering tied to AI. The same bank telling you 300 million jobs are at risk is making billions helping the companies that will take them. And the corporate playbook is already locked in: Meta is firing 16,000 people. 20% of its entire workforce. While doubling AI spending to $135 billion. Stock went up 3% on the announcement. Block fired 40% of its staff. Stock surged 24%. Atlassian cut 10%. Same pattern. Over 61,000 AI-linked layoffs since November. 764 people per day losing their jobs in tech alone. Every single time a company announces mass layoffs and says "AI," the stock price goes up. Wall Street has created a system where firing humans is the most profitable announcement a CEO can make. Goldman's report says the jobs most PROTECTED from AI are air traffic controllers, chief executives, radiologists, pharmacists, and members of the clergy. Notice who's safe? The people at the top and the people praying. Everyone in the middle is exposed. The entry-level white-collar worker who spent four years and $200,000 on a degree is now competing against software that works 24/7, never takes vacation, never asks for a raise, and improves every single week. Goldman even admits younger workers in their 20s and 30s entering knowledge and content creation sectors will be "most affected." The generation that was told AI would make their lives better is the one getting displaced by it first. And it gets even WORSE: Goldman says if this displacement happens faster than their 10 year base case, the economic impact "could be much larger." Basically: if companies move fast, which they already are, the fallout will be worse than their projections. They're already moving fast. $700 billion in AI infrastructure this year. Mass layoffs at every major tech company. Stock prices rewarding every single one. The report is 50 pages of data telling you exactly what's coming. Most people won't read past the headline. But you just did.

@jimbohuff @Microinteracti1 If Iran wasn’t hostile to Israel, I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t mind Iran at all.

@sbaexplorer @Microinteracti1 The furthest point in Israel, Iran’s sworn enemy, to Iran is about 1,600 km. The only reason for a 4,000 km rocket it to hit Europe.

Iran fired two ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia this week. That’s a tiny British-American dot in the Indian Ocean that most people couldn’t find on a map, which is precisely why it matters. The range was 4,000 kilometers. Four thousand. To put that in perspective, 4,000 kilometers from Tehran gets you to Rome. Athens. Cairo. Southern Europe is well within reach. London and Paris are further, but don’t sleep too well either. This is not what Tehran told anyone their missiles could do. So either they’ve been lying, or the intelligence community has been spectacularly wrong. Possibly both. One missile failed mid-flight, which is the kind of thing that happens when you build intercontinental weapons in a country that can’t keep the lights on. The other was shot down by a U.S. warship with an SM-3 interceptor, which Trump has already counted as winning the war. For the third time. Now here’s the bit nobody wants to say out loud: the strike came hours after Britain’s Keir Starmer gave Washington permission to use Diego Garcia to bomb Iranian missile sites. So Iran bombed the base we lent them. With a missile nobody knew they had. The war just acquired a completely new dimension. And the man in the White House is busy declaring victory. Iran decides when this stops. Not him. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@MarioNawfal Every European city just realized this war is to protect them.

🇮🇷🇺🇸🇬🇧 Iran just proved its missiles can reach far beyond the Middle East Iran fired two intermediate-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, a joint U.S.-UK military base sitting 4,000 kilometers away in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Neither hit the base, but the message landed harder than any warhead could. Tehran has always publicly claimed its missile range tops out at 2,000 km. This strike attempt doubles that number overnight. The Khorramshahr-4 that likely carried out the attack can also deliver cluster warheads, the same munitions that have been devastating Israeli cities for three weeks. Look at the map. A 4,000 km range from Tehran draws a circle that reaches Paris, London, and most of Europe. Every NATO capital that thought this war was a distant Middle Eastern problem just realized Iranian missiles could theoretically reach their doorstep. Source: @sentdefender WSJ

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@ChiefEngineerCE This is either false or you need a different attorney.

Absolutely true story- My boss the CEO made the HR director come in when her heart surgery had to be canceled due to the anesthesiologist not showing up. She died in front of me. Slid off her chair and start convulsing. Dead. Her husband got an attorney that said .. sorry dead people can't sue. Shitty morning that was. I left that job- psychopath. Within hours he sent out an email telling us not to worry - he would have her position promptly filled.

@CryptoMikli I was just talking to a couple other lawyers this evening, we all stopped practicing awhile ago but we all think these predictions are full of shit.

Andrew Yang explains why lawyers will be replaced by AI “The first thing that jumped into my mind when you said that was lawyer. Law school applications, last I checked, went up 21% last year, and I would suggest that was a flight to safety, and that stuff’s not safe at all. Lawyering is highly structured. It’s very process oriented. It’s kind of the ideal environment for AI” “I have friends who are partners in law firms who say, ‘Look, I’m giving AI work that would have taken a second or third year associate a week to complete, and it gives it back to me in 20 minutes. So why on earth would I hire a small army of these associates?’”