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feels like AI is 10xing too many -1x developers

does anyone know if they are hiring mid-level data engineers that prompt claude and sleep all day at Jane Street

Family won’t move our group chat to signal. Had to leave. Here comes the guilt trip 😒

there are guys on here who don’t know how to cook themselves eggs trying to trade oil against Citadel

This easily one of the funniest photos I’ve ever seen

Air India flight to Canada flew in the air for 4 hours. Suddenly realized this is the wrong aircraft and it's not approved to enter Canada. Flies back for another 4 hours to land back in Delhi. Now, imagine being a passenger on this flight.

When building costs drop 90% but distribution costs stay flat, you get a gold rush where everyone digs and nobody sells. That’s what this chart actually shows. New websites up 40%. iOS apps up 50%. GitHub pushes up 35%. Everyone read “barrier to building disappeared” and heard opportunity. The correct read is that 557,000 new apps hit the App Store last year, a 24% spike, flooding a discovery channel that was already dead on arrival. 90% of senior mobile professionals surveyed said organic App Store discovery was effectively over before this wave even hit. Half of all App Store searches are just people typing in brands they already know. The supply side hockey-sticked. The demand side didn’t move. This is why tech layoffs doubled to 264,000 in 2025 while code output simultaneously exploded. Companies don’t need more builders. They need people who can get the thing in front of someone who’ll pay for it. Distribution, positioning, audience, brand. The functions that never got the AI productivity boost. Nicholas nails the conclusion that taste and knowing what to build are what matter now. But taste is only half of it. You also need the channel. The unsexy reality is that a mediocre app with 100,000 newsletter subscribers will outperform a beautiful app with zero distribution every single time. The apps winning in 2026 aren’t the best-built ones. They’re the ones attached to someone who already has an audience. Building software used to be the moat. Now building software is the commodity. Distribution is the new moat, and unlike code, it doesn’t get cheaper with AI.

“You crossed the line first, sir. You squeezed their livelihood, you hammered their economy, to the point of desperation. And in their desperation they turned to a man they didn’t fully understand.”

Four types of people at every company now yes, people get 10x better when the go from bottom right to top right but also, people get 10x worse when they go from bottom left to top left

This is an incredible essay that hits on something I’ve never understood but often observed. The time that people put into setting up tools often surpasses any output they get. This is Notion, Linear, Claude. Setting them up is 80% of what people do with them. Amazing framing 🎯

A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.

We have just deleted half the applications at random. We do not want unlucky people working for Flip

> be me, 28m wagie living in Delhi > wake up at 8 AM for my IT coolie job > look out window, can’t see anything except a Grey haze > neighbhourhood looks like the inside of a tandoor that hasn't been cleaned since 1947 > chest feeling heavy, congestion built up in lungs > must be the weather changing > check phone > open IQAir app (Western propaganda tool) > screen is deep purple > AQI 650: "Hazardous. Do not breathe. Just die." > panic.jpg > am I being gaslit by the atmosphere? > turn on nationalist TV news channel > see senior Minister > looks calm, composed, probably breathing filtered Himalayan air in the studio > “Global rankings are not official. WHO guidelines are just suggestions.” > “India sets its own standards based on geography.” > realization hits me > foreign AQI is a colonial construct > Westoid lungs are weak, cannot handle the texture of Desi air > they need ‘clean air’ because they lack civilizational immunity > delete IQAir immediately > install ‘Sarkari Vayu Sewa’ app > refresh location > AQI is 45: “Satisfactory” > it’s not PM2.5, it’s ‘Atmanirbhar Particles’ > it’s not smog, it’s ‘Viksit Vapor’ > go to balcony > take a deep breath of sovereign, non-aligned air > taste the sulphur > cough up a black glob > stare at it > it looks vaguely like a map of Akhand Bharat > tears stream down my face (mostly from the nitrogen dioxide, but also patriotism) > Global Index: Rejected > Lungs: Congested > Nation: Protected > mfw I successfully rejected Western imperialism by reducing my life expectancy by 10 years

doing code review on the 10,000 lines claude code wrote

Max Brosmer 126 YDS / 0 TD / 4 INT No QBgami. That stat line has happened 1 time before, by Tommy Thompson on Nov 5, 1950.

Gemini 3.0 just refactored my entire codebase in one call. 25 tool invocations. 3,000+ new lines. 12 brand new files. It modularized everything. Broke up monoliths. Cleaned up spaghetti. None of it worked. But boy was it beautiful.

what did i just read bro

this is the way

Managers have been vibe coding forever by @thekitze :D