Hugo Pinheiro
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@user_ops
Building architecture patterns and agent skills to enable the coming personal agent microcloud, focusing on edge compute, thoughts and opinions are my own.
We're rolling out a small tweak to boost visibility of your posts to your mutuals (people who you follow back). We noticed this data was missing from the algo and it made your friends appear less in your replies. This resulted in the reply section feeling more like a battleground with people you don't recognize. This should also help clusters form around interests more easily, which many people have asked for.
are you this old?
My biggest takeaways from @noamseg, diving into the results of our large-scale survey of tech workers in 2026: 1. The #1 fear in tech right now is not losing your job to AI—it’s being squeezed to do more work for the same pay. When asked to identify their biggest concerns with AI, “losing my job to AI” ranked near the bottom of the survey results. What people are actually worried about is being squeezed: having to do more for the same pay, and watching the quality of their work slip. AI raised the bar for output, and the reward was...more work for the same pay. 2. Manager effectiveness is the biggest lever for employee well-being. Workers with highly effective managers report roughly 65% higher job enjoyment and dramatically lower burnout. The problem is that only 25% of respondents rated their manager as highly effective (and 36% rated their manager as ineffective). This finding has held consistent across both years of the survey. The squeeze employees are feeling is something managers are best positioned to protect against. 3. Most people in tech wouldn't recommend their own role to someone entering the industry today. Using an NPS-style question (scale of 0–10), not a single function scored above zero when asked if they’d recommend their career path to others. Founders came closest to neutral; designers and researchers scored worst. 4. AI is splitting the tech workforce in half. When asked how AI has shifted their professional identity, 50% of respondents said they feel amplified—more capable, more productive, more excited about their future. The other half feel their role is being redefined (27%), that they’re feeling destabilized (14%), or that they’ve been diminished (5%). Which category you’re in correlates with your career optimism, burnout, and layoff worry—an effect about three times as large as the next-biggest factor (manager effectiveness). 5. Burnout surged 10 points in a single year, while optimism fell 6 points. Shipping faster is burning people out. More prototypes, more PRDs, more agents, more output. As the report puts it, “the speed AI unlocked got plowed straight back into expectations.” The one glimmer: job enjoyment held roughly steady year-over-year. Many people are burned out and still having fun. As @nikhyl put it, many people are in a state of "smiling exhaustion." 6. Quality of people's work is suffering. 97.2% of respondents said AI is making them better at their job; close to 50% said “very much” or “extremely” better. But when asked what “better” actually means, the answer consistently came back as “more, faster”—not higher-quality work. Even more concerning: people reported a phenomenon Noam calls “cognitive rot.” They see the AI’s initial output, accept it without applying their judgment, and gradually let their own critical thinking atrophy. 7. Designers and researchers are the most negative group in tech, for the second year in a row. They lead in feeling destabilized or diminished by AI, reporting high rates of anxiety and overwhelm, worries about losing their roles to AI, and unwillingness to recommend their careers to others. Noam’s read: this doesn’t mean these roles are becoming irrelevant—if anything, he argues the opposite. Taste, craft, judgment, and the ability to create genuinely novel experiences remain stubbornly human. “The industry needs us,” he says. “This is a call to get in there and do our thing.” 8. Founders are still the happiest people in tech. For the second consecutive year, founders score highest on optimism, job enjoyment, AI excitement, and lowest on burnout and layoff worry. The “there’s never been a better time to build” narrative holds emotionally, at least for now. Founders have agency, autonomy, and direct relationships to the output. 9. Company size is linearly correlated with employee misery. Across burnout, optimism, layoff worry, and career recommendation, outcomes degrade in a straight line from 1-to-10-person startups to 5,000-to-10,000+-person enterprises. There’s no size at which things get better before they get worse again.
@ivanfioravanti Can be taken further ie: in the book diamond age they have "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" which is similar but much more like a reactive wiki with stories that help kids learn.
If you had the printed newspaper, magazine, book, or any periodical with you, and you had it in e-ink/e-reader and you had it in your phone and on your laptop. What would you tend to use to consume that content?
