SD.🧉
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SD.🧉
@underfitalien
machine learning. cosmos. football. photography.
earth Katılım Ağustos 2021
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the incentive structure flipped completely
before: olympiads/research had clear gatekeepers (schools, competitions, universities). you couldn't fake a math medal or research publication. took years of depth
now: anyone can wrap an API, call it a startup, post revenue screenshots (real or not), and get validation instantly. social media rewards the performance of success more than actual depth
also the role models changed. kids used to see scientists, athletes, olympiad winners. now their feed is full of 20-year-olds with lambos talking about "escaping the matrix" and making it seem like coding a wrapper = financial freedom
the barrier to looking successful dropped to zero while the barrier to actual deep work
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i genuinely wanna understand why so many kids nowadays are hyper-focussed on building "ai startups" and chasing this whole "dubai billionaire founder" fantasy
i was going through profiles of these kids being marketed online as the next prodigies, mostly around ages 8-14, and honestly most of what they’ve built are just basic ai wrappers or surface-level saas products. not saying building things is bad, but it feels very different from what "gifted kids" culture used to look like
when i was younger, the kids people looked up to were usually cracking olympiads, winning medals, doing research, writing papers, maybe even building products too. but that wasn’t their entire personality. they still played sports, hung out, had hobbies, had an actual childhood. achievement existed alongside life, not in place of it
now it feels like childhood itself has become a branding exercise. every kid needs a linkedin profile, startup story, ai company, growth thread, revenue screenshot
what changed over time?
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@VinnieiOS Would love to know what you’re building, and how we can leverage our ideas to push products out. Feel free to DM me.
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yeah so we are actually going to be employed forever lmao.
every single week I have interviews dog. if you can’t find a job in tech rn maybe consider learning the skills that are in demand instead of being stubborn and prideful.
or leave. more for the rest of us.
a16z@a16z
College CS enrollment is declining Charts of the Week: a16z.news/p/charts-of-th…
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Software engineering is becoming an athlete's career. Short prime. Big paychecks. Sharp dropoff.
→ 20-35: peak performance
→ 35+: manage (disappearing), pivot (founder/consultant), or fade
The 40-year IC career is dying. If you haven't built leverage by 35 (equity, audience, your own product), the second half gets brutal.
Don't you agree?
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@PassportPaulie It’s sad. Idk if it’s a lost cause or can all of this be overturned.
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@WhateverVishal They’ve been trained all their life for it. Just do anything it takes to optimize for money no matter what. Least friction method for decent money? Grind and get an MNC corporate role and stay in it until you die. Most of them are living the same exact life no joke.
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How long are we going to keep justifying Job Cuts like this ?
With elevated Income
Comes Elevated Lifestyle
Most of those laid off people arent sitting on pile of cash
Why do Indians have a habit of sucking up to Corporates so hard
Ravi Handa@ravihanda
An engineer at Mera would have made more money in last 5 years than most people in India will make in their lifetime. While job loss can be hard, I find it hard to feel sympathy (or empathy) towards the rich and privileged NRIs. Perhaps it is my crab mentality that I can feel nothing but envy towards them.
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@souvik_1210 Perfect! That’s sounds great! Currently I’m exploring how heterogeneous graph transformers can be used at scale for prelim experiments.
I’ll DM you and we can continue our convo there!
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Hey! Awesome to connect
Neurosymbolic architectures + graphs for legal tech sounds super interesting - especially the explainability and rule-based reasoning angle that pure LLMs often miss. Spatial data for a startup also aligns well with real-world applications.
I'm diving deep into ML projects and open-source. Currently exploring AI tools, automation, and web apps. Legal tech + spatial data both have strong collab potential - would love to hear more about your PhD work or the startup ideas you're exploring.
DMs are open for it. Looking forward to exchanging ideas! What part of legal tech are you focusing on most right now?
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@souvik_1210 Yeah literally! Man I used to struggle so bad with all of that at first. Href gave me nightmares lol for some reason.
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@souvik_1210 Hey! I’m currently a PhD candidate working on neurosymbolic architectures and graphs to improve AI for legal tech. Along with that I am exploring ideas in the spatial data space to begin a startup. Would love to collab on any intersecting ideas!
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@underfitalien Hey! Great to connect!
What are you currently working on? Let's chat about ideas or possible collabs. Looking forward to it!
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@souvik_1210 Omg yeah I remember using notepad for html pages at first. Crazy how much things have evolved!
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@underfitalien Wow, that's great. Mine was Notepad++ back in college, then I quickly moved to VS Code.
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@leaving_tech It scares me so much to spend my life grinding for someone else’s vision and the hiring system is broken to enter firms that resonate with my passion. Therefore I absolutely despise the 9-5. So doing research and building my own agency now.
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@knowRowan I strongly believe it’s the first step towards the AI + robotics vision. Many companies are using recording devices and handing them to blue collar workers to gather as much data as we can, clean/process it, train models on it, and integrate with hardware/robotics. Bullish on it.
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@underfitalien Seeing a lot of folks going for spatial related computing , where do you see this going a couple years from now?
Connected btw.
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