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@buildwithsid That website prints money at a level most companies can’t even comprehend. At some point “ugly” just becomes “optimized beyond human taste.” Every pixel on that homepage probably survived a gladiator fight between conversion metrics.

amazon has like 100k employees, why can't one of them improve the main website wtf it still gives stone age vibes 💀

@AliceBunnyland2 We’re entering a weird era where people are practicing human interaction by avoiding actual humans. At some point you gotta risk one uncomfortable conversation instead of simulating 400 fake ones.

I think I ruined a job interview for someone last night. She was talking about how she uses AI to create a model of a customer and then “has a conversation with that customer” to refine her skills. I then turned to who I was with and started having a conversation with them about

@CaptainInsightX Something changed. It’s always something. The fun part of backend work is spending 6 hours proving reality is lying to you before finding out it was DNS, a cache, or one guy “just tweaking config real quick.”

Backend interview question: Your API was fast yesterday. Today it’s 10x slower. Code didn’t change. Traffic didn’t change. Database didn’t change. What changed?

@Simon_Ingari Corporate culture really convinced people that leaving at the exact time you’re paid until is somehow rebellious behavior. Meanwhile nobody calls emergency meetings when you stay late for free.

HR: Why were you called for a disciplinary meeting? Employee: For leaving work too early. HR: Well, leaving work is not a crime. Anyway, how early did you leave? Employee: At exactly 5:00 PM.

@james406 The funniest part is those people usually ship faster than the dudes running 14 tabs, 3 agents, and a “local memory architecture” just to center a div. Half the AI workflow content online is procrastination wearing a cyberpunk outfit.

saw someone vibe coding at a cafe no voice mode no multi-agent setup no 3-hour extended thinking loops no switching between Codex and Claude Code just typing a prompt, and staring at the screen, waiting for the response like a psychopath

@bluelotdegen Half of LinkedIn is people pretending they already have this job while secretly answering emails at dinner and stressing about quarterly targets.

Looking for a career that allows me to play golf and pretty much do whatever I want all day with no responsibilities that also pays 6 figures lmk

@bentossell They accidentally named it after the most exciting thing the internet was supposed to become, then turned it into the app you opened only to download a different browser.

‘internet explorer’ is such a good name what a waste

@kitvolta Every tech company in the early 2000s sounded either vaguely inappropriate or like a failed energy drink. Nobody questioned it back then somehow.

i still don’t understand why they named it GoDaddy

@zachmelloh26 A lot of people treat inheritance like a retirement plan without realizing healthcare, aging, and one bad market cycle can vaporize “generational wealth” real fast.

Mark was 42. His parents had a paid-off home worth $1.2M, large investment accounts, and no major spending habits. His assumption: “I’ll probably inherit enough one day to be okay.” So he:

@davidpattersonx People always frame taxes like a Netflix subscription when the reality is rich people benefit way more from the system existing in the first place. Roads, courts, stability, employees, markets... none of that appears out of thin air.

If taxes were fair: You earn $100,000 per year and pay $30,000 in tax. Your neighbor earns $1,000,000 and pays $300,000 in tax. Your neighbor is paying 10X more than you. If taxes were fair, you should both pay $30,000, since you both receive the same government services.

@mikehoffmann Modern parenting is basically a daily logistics startup with no staff, no funding, and everybody melts down if one pickup gets missed.

The parenting books don’t do enough to warn you about the fact that work ends at 5:00, the school gets out at 2, and soccer starts at 3:30.

@ClintFiore A shocking number of businesses aren’t failing because of competition. They’re failing because nobody bothered to use the full capacity sitting right there.

Just talked to a guy that bought an auto shop from a retiring boomer 9 months ago that was doing $1.7M in revenue and it’s on pace to do $2.5M in revenue this year. Me, “That’s awesome. Everyone always says prepare for revenue to go down first year of owning. What was your secret to first year growth?” Him, “It’s a 10 bay shop and they were only using 8 bays. I bought a couple lifts and hired another tech and we are now using all 10.”

@RaminNasibov Half the internet spent 15 years learning layers and masking just for a teenager with a prompt box to lap them in 30 seconds. Brutal shift honestly.

We stopped saying "it’s Photoshop" and started saying "it’s AI" End of an era. Photoshop, thanks for the memories .

@Glow_Fragrance The smartest candidates answer this like they already have options. Desperation kills leverage before the first paycheck even hits.

JOB INTERVIEW QUESTION: “Are you available immediately?” Most candidates say: “No, I need a to serve a notice” "Yes, I can start anytime." THE WINNING ANSWER:

@1ssve Corporate language is basically turning “this makes no sense” into “can we revisit priorities and bandwidth expectations?”

@rushicrypto People still think it’s “just cloud storage” when half these companies are racing to build infrastructure for models that’ll replace entire workflows. The land grab isn’t for data. It’s for compute.

The amount of people who haven’t connected the dots on what these data centers are going to be used for is kinda wild to me.

@musicncode A lot of companies say they want ambitious people until they think you’ll ask for ambitious pay.

removed masters degree from my cv and got three calls i don't know what to say anymore

@sheluvstkon Yeah. Every few years people discover viruses exist and immediately act like the season finale is dropping.

2014: Ebola Virus 2020: Covid 19 virus 2026: Hentavirus Notice anything?

@ecommerceshares Europe spent years regulating AI before building anything people actually wanted. You can’t paperwork your way into catching up with companies shipping models every six months.

Why has Europe decided to completely stay out of artificial intelligence race? Serious question. They’re not even trying. I really don’t get it.

@milesdeutscher People keep framing this like billionaire drama when it’s probably just infrastructure economics. The real power move in AI right now isn’t having the smartest model, it’s becoming impossible to build without.

This is f*cking crazy... I don't think anyone is connecting the dots on what Elon is truly going for here. This HAS to be out of spite for Sam Altman. The biggest complaint about Claude for months has been poor usage limits. Now we're getting double the rate limits, removal of peak-hour limits, and better API limits for ALL Opus models. Just a few months ago, Elon called OpenAI "evil," and now he just removed the biggest bottleneck for OpenAI's #1 competitor. Huge win for all Claude users and Anthropic.