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@hiiinternet How do people get stuck in those positions? I have a few friends who don’t believe I make double them and think they’re robbing the bank at 130k and you can only make more at FAANG

if you're a swe in nyc making $150k hmu for a dinner on me + I'll intro you to companies offering $200k+

@antibearthesis Honestly, I think incumbents could fall. Google, Microsoft, Amazon, all infested with h1b’s. They genuinely don’t have the talent anymore. Nvidia, Meta, other companies still have smart people.

The S&P 500 is 2% off all time highs While tech stocks are down 50% THIS IS THE TIME TO BUY INDIVIDUAL STOCKS NOT INDEX FUNDS

"Nothing from my end, thanks"

@numerounochef @XFilesGroyper @TheGeorgePu @atoherbert Ya, I’m actively looking after a layoff as a software engineer 3 weeks ago. In interview rounds for 6 companies(all offering more) and literally every application has visa issues as an instant reject. Seems the only people hit are front end devs and Indians.

@XFilesGroyper @TheGeorgePu @atoherbert I'm not a foreigner, and actually, my friends who are have a much harder time getting jobs now than before. Fewer companies are willing to take the risk under Trump.

90,000 tech workers laid off in 2026. We're 95 days in. That's 963 people per day. Oracle let go of 30,000 in a single email. Sent at 6 AM. Signed by 'Oracle Leadership'. No name. Amazon cut 16,000. Revenue last year: $717 billion. These aren't struggling companies. They're profitable. This isn't a recession. It's a replacement.

@randomrecruiter Number 1 is brutal. My buddy got a verbal offer, literally next day hiring froze and they missed cutoff by an hour. Then next quarter came and me, and the recruiter got laid off. The req was “frozen” for 4 months, so my buddy would email and the recruiter couldn’t tell him more.

Getting ghosted after a final round interview sucks. It's one thing if it's just a recruiter screen or phone interview, but after investing hours and hours just to not hear back feels like a gut punch. Some reasons why you got ghosted. 1. Budget got pulled last second 2. They went with an internal candidate 3. Hiring Manager got cold feet 4. You're the backup candidate More here: substack.com/home/post/p-19…

@randomrecruiter Hah, happened to me last week. Worked more finding a job this week than I have in 2 years combined.

Remote workers when an unmarked 15-minute meeting with HR appears on their calendar at 3:47 PM on a Friday

@drewlevin There’s a bug where the league game client won’t close. it bugs out the client making it unresponsive. Closing it in task manager, fixes it. Can fix with a simple. if PostGameRecieved and GameOpen: CloseGame Game should never be open after the post match is up.

@itswpceo Surely Canada can hit the US mainland? Some Canadian guy should record a video of him throwing a rock over the border

Breaking: 🇺🇸 Only THREE countries on earth that can HIT US mainland as per new military capabilities. Countries that can hit US mainland - Russia 🇷🇺 : 25 minutes - China 🇨🇳 : ~30 minutes - North Korea 🇰🇵 : 30–45 minutes

@aarondotdev Good post. I think front end devs and low skilled work that is already contracted out or h1b gets obliterated though. But I wouldn’t be surprised if good dev salaries go up with how much I’m empowered with this stuff.

the ugly truth is that LLMs are clearly plateauing in how "intelligent" they seem. they are NOT to the point where they can fully take over coding. anyone who thinks so is either: >not running a product at scale (it's great for MVPs) >has a vested interest in ppl believing AGI is 6 months out >has no idea how to code yes, there were huge leaps in model capabilities before. but you can count them on one hand. the large companies are quite literally out of data to train these models on, so they're trying different things like synthetic data, better post-training RL loops, task-based fine-tuning. these are all guesses though. and we haven't been seeing much progress since the last big wave imo (grok 4, gemini 2.5 pro, o3) almost all proven AI researchers have agreed (and in some cases predicted) this drop off in model quality based on these scaling laws. in fact, they don't just think that the intelligence returns of scaling will fall off, they think true intelligence is not possible at all with the current LLM based approach. my point is that if you're a cs major, or a teenager that likes to code, or even in your early career you shouldn't consider leaving the field because of AI. right now, this moment in time, this might be the BEST that AI coding tools get. and they are nowhere near replacing competent SWEs. most of what you hear on twitter and in the news are largely propaganda-based glazing of AI because a massive portion of the US economy (all the large tech companies) are basing their future outlook on AI. a ton of people are going to believe this bs and quit learning to code, change jobs, etc. but here's the most realistic timeline of how this is going to play out: >publicly traded companies will layoff a ton of employees and say it's because of AI so stonk go up. my company did this a couple years ago. block did it last week. more will do the same. >cs major will become less competitive because junior hiring has gone down. less people will go into cs. >only the most dedicated and genuinely interested will remain in cs majors. >tons of large companies and small companies and individuals will build a metric fuckload or features using cursor, lovable, etc >these features will look like a mosaic of the most architectural patterns you could ever imagine. how do i know? because i read every single line of code my AI comes up with. probably 70% of it is completely retarded, but if i were to test it, it would "work". >the SECOND any of these vibe coded shills get any sort of traction, their systems will literally melt because LLMs are garbage at real system architecture. why? because any company at real scale isn't letting dario and sama train on their source code. that would be retarded. >now we have a ton of people with products that are making money but need someone to come in and fix their shit. good thing we still have those people who got a cs degree because they actually enjoy this task. AI isn't going to make more software jobs. it's going to make a LOT more shitty software. an unfathomable amount of badly written applications that will need to be rewritten from the ground up.

@Max @samlambert @Instacart Shit policy. If items out of stock, you arnt filling the implied upon deal, even if it’s buried in some bullshit tos. Don’t know if I’m gonna use Instacart anymore due to this policy. Already axed Uber Eats for similar reasons.

@samlambert @Instacart it’s just following our policies but I’ll make sure you don’t get charged a cancellation fee @samlambert!

fuck @Instacart