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@HarryStebbings @P_Bonnet At… home?

@P_Bonnet Get the fuck to my apartment and work with me here.

I am sorry but work from home Friday is a 4-day work week. Even worse when the Friday is a sunny Friday. Back to the office. 996.

@RollingHedge Wrong company

Is this a windup? It’s a £500k investment. What do you think that buys you? Palantir are offering a single engineering job that pays up to like £600k+ without options or equity. Oh look at the “credentials” of Liz here who posted this flaccid drivelslop. Never had a job. What a fucking surprise. Many such cases.

@chimpfone They’ve both been here for… a couple of years?

deepmind = london openai = first office in london anthropic = will move to london sadly America has become too unsafe and talent will continue to flood to the greatest city in the greatest country in the world

@TechLayoffLover Who’s going to make the PowerPoint slide

Had drinks with 30 CTOs last night at an off-the-record gathering in Palo Alto Every single one showed me the same internal PowerPoint slide "2026 AI Headcount Targets: Path to 70% Cost Reduction" The numbers will make you physically sick Fintech CTO planning to cut 280-person engineering org down to 43 "AI orchestrators" by September. Same product roadmap. Same delivery expectations. Healthcare CTO already eliminated his entire manual QA department. 67 people. Replaced with 3 senior engineers running autonomous testing agents that ship code directly to production. SaaS CTO walked me through his "human depreciation timeline": 340 engineers today, 89 planned for 2027. Customer support going from 120 humans to 12 "escalation specialists" managing AI conversations. The most chilling part: they're all using the exact same consulting deck from McKinsey called "The 30% Organization" One CTO literally said "hiring humans for code is like hiring horses for transportation" Another showed me Slack screenshots where his L7s are asking if they should train their replacements The consensus was unanimous: if you can't manage 10 AI agents by Christmas, you're not making it to New Year's Every single one of them is planning to announce these cuts as "AI transformation success stories" While their stock options vest at record highs built on the backs of workers they're about to execute The future of engineering is 3 humans with 50 AI agents in a WeWork somewhere while 500 families lose their homes

Breaking news: Anthropic buys the All in podcast just to shut it down Dario quoted as saying: “this isn’t even about new media I just want to stop seeing them on my timeline”

@ScottWu46 Thanks for shouting it up dude

Devin Review caught the axios supply chain attack for multiple Cognition customers before the attack was publicly known. These attacks will be 10x more frequent in the age of AI; it is critical that repo maintainers start using AI for defense as well. (showing one example below where Devin Review caught the attack within an hour of its release - text minorly edited for anonymization)

@YoshiJoshi_ @TonyJuniper @lfg_uk Spain is about twice the landmass of the UK

@TonyJuniper @lfg_uk Spain has nearly 5 times larger motorway network than the UK. Despite us having both a larger population and landmass. And we spent 30+ years in the EU, so to state that this is the reason for the difference is simply incorrect. It’s due to an anti growth mindset

Is this acceptable? Since 1990, Spain has built nearly 7,000 miles of motorway. So ... what about the UK? We have built 422 miles of motorway in 35 years. 35 years – 422 miles. Thats only twelve miles every year. Why have we stopped building?

@tbpn @carrynointerest Trust me bro

.@carrynointerest says Manus is one of the most underrated AI products today, and that it was a genius acquisition by Zuck: “There are simply things that you can do with Manus that no other inference provider or product can do. I would reveal them, but that’s alpha for me.” “What Zuck realized is — 'I don’t have to care about inference or who’s giving it to me, because [Manus] figured out some really special stuff around how an LLM processes data in and around a web browser.'” “And now he’s already integrating it with Ads Manager. It’s a great bet.”

@alexanderrX_ Ha. A classic of the genre of making up shit to try and make a point

london is one of the few cities on earth where someone earning £250k a year is renting a one bed flat or living with flatmates. this city humbles everyone equally.

@patrick_oshag Takes no time at all to see this is wrong. Will never understand this desire to denigrate Europe by making shit up. We have problems, there’s no need for nonsense

@davidgelberg @MaikTWehmeyer Our bull is in birmingham

@MaikTWehmeyer Place it in London

Time to reveal who let the 🦞 out ;) Today, @Taktile launches Taktile Labs. We dropped the lobster on Wall Street to ask the question: are banks ready for autonomous agents? With our applied AI research institute, we aim to bridge the gap between what frontier models can now do - and what regulated institutions need in order to trust it. Our first benchmark shows the latest models can beat human accuracy on very complex banking tasks: 96%+ vs. 89% in financial spreading. The models are ready. Now the industry needs evidence, benchmarks, and practical frameworks to ensure they work reliably at scale. That is what Taktile Labs is built for. AI is coming to financial services - let's make sure we can trust it. Excited to drive this with a stacked internal team and many incredible individuals on our Research Council and Advisory Board. Thanks to Bradesco’s Fagner Abreu, Parallel’s @paraga , Founder, Investor, and Morgan Stanley Lead Director Tom Glocer, Harvard Business School Professors Robin Greenwood and Karim Lakhani, Harvey’s Ben Liebald, Camunda’s Daniel Meyer, Cursor’s Jonas Nelle, ROC Partners’ Tina Reich, Equifax’s Harald Schneider, Suno’s @MikeyShulman, Intuit’s Henry Venturelli, Allianz Partners’ Pieter Viljoen, Flexcar’s Michael Zambrano, and Varo Bank’s Jill Zucker Sheckman. Learn more at: taktilelabs.ai (nothing AI generated about it btw, we worked with NYC artist @AndrewLoganAMW to build the lobster from scratch)

Looking for founder / cofounder level engineers in London and uae who want to work on a new ai first experimental messaging platform. World class comp total freedom. Email me at herman@improbable.io with your GitHub or equivalent.

@ajcdeane That’s not overly high and tbh in the civil service, low attrition is a big problem

The UK Treasury has a *20%* rate of staff turnover annually.

@woodchippings1 @meIisactu Salaries are not as bad as OP suggesting but this figure is not accurate

@meIisactu Median software eng manager in London £154.8k.

I like how all the London as a desirable scene for tech companies posts talk about the general vibe and not the bit where you get to pay everyone £37k

@SebJohnsonUK Many such cases since Jan. Regularly taking on roles now where founders are saying “we need another SWE, they will probably never write a line of code”

Today I spoke to a top tier AI founder from the UK who said his engineers hadn't written a line of code in three weeks.

@nbevans @BurnedChris We’ve multiple London startup clients who are all pretending to be in SF online

@BurnedChris What makes you think people are doing that?

Hot take: If your startup is in London, stop calling it “SF-based”. Hard to build the next Silicon Valley if everyone keeps pretending they’re already there.

@albertedwards99 That’s not what this says

One area where the UK excels is inflation of surplus graduates. A bonkers 50% of 18 year olds head to university, wracking up huge debts for pointless 'Brad Pitt Studies' courses. But also grade inflation, with one third given devalued first class degrees. And the result is...

@hwbhatti Lemon

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@luke_pighetti Good for the vibes

why is everyone saying OpenClaw was a $1B exit?