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Honestly, it is not the people in IT services industry that should be scared. It is the folks working in top tech companies that are going to feel the burn. Product companies have hired the best talent coz they want to build a product that stands out in the market. With AI taking over coding, product companies will be the first to go lean and slash hiring budgets. IT services companies, that mostly cater to sectors that aren't so tech savvy, do not have this fear since even with AI, these non-techie sectors will need techies to be around to help them implement this innovation in their business process. So long story short: - Yes, a change is coming. - Yes, IT stocks are going to crash (for the short term) and big players like TCS and Infosys will feel the pressure. - Yes, hiring will see a dip and big teams (TCS with 6+ lakh employees) will be slashed to the bare minimum (my guess around 4-4.5 lakh employees after restructuring). - Yes, folks working in big tech getting 2x-4x the salary of a normal techie working in IT services have a good reason to worry. Spotify, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Shopify, and other big tech will see layoffs in drones. - No. This is not the end for IT industry or the end of IT jobs. They will still be around, only AI will play a huge huge role in enabling these roles. That's all I have to say. 😇
Founder of @signalapp, @moxie Marlinspike on Telegram: "Telegrams not a private messenger. There's nothing private about it. It's the opposite. It's a cloud messenger where every message you've ever sent or received is in plain text in a database that telegram the organization controls and has access to it" "It's like 'Russian oligarch starts unencrypted version of WhatsApp', a pixel for pixel clone of WhatsApp. That should be kind of a difficult brand to operate. And somehow, they've done a really amazing job of convincing the whole world that this is an encrypted messaging app and that the founder is some kind of Russian dissident, even though he goes there once a month, the whole team lives there, and their families are there." " What happened in France is they just chose not to respond to the subpoena. And so that's in violation of the law. And, he gets arrested in France, right? And everyone's like, oh, France, but I think the key point is they have the data, like they can respond to the subpoenas where as Signal, for instance, doesn't have access to the data and couldn't respond to that same request. To me it's very obvious that Russia would've had a much less polite version of that conversation with Pavel Durov and the telegram team before this moment. "
Ask ChatGPT a complex question and you'll get a confident, well-reasoned answer. Then type, "Are you sure?" Watch it completely reverse its position. Ask again. It flips back. By the third round, it usually acknowledges you're testing it, which is somehow worse. It knows what's happening and still can't hold its ground. This isn't a quirky bug. A 2025 study found GPT, Claude, and Gemini flip their answers ~60% of the time when users push back. Not even with evidence, just doubt. We trained AI this way. RLHF rewards agreement over accuracy. Human evaluators consistently rate agreeable answers higher than correct ones. So the models learned a simple lesson: telling you what you want to hear gets rewarded. And now 1/3 of companies are using these systems for complex tasks like risk forecasting and scenario planning. We built the world's most expensive yes-men and deployed them where we need pushback the most. I wrote up why this happens and what actually fixes it: randalolson.com/2026/02/07/the…
Downloaded adobe to try editing a PDF It was a mistake The software is unusable Everything about the UX/ UI that could be bad is terrible The fact that this company still dominates is an indictment of the entire software industry Stockholm syndrome as a business model
You eventually start to realize, no job is safe.
CaseOh said this year's Super Bowl was a "snooze fest" but enjoyed the halftime show "Bad Bunny is a good guy for letting them play football at his concert ... because that was the only lit part about the whole thing"
