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Engineering job openings are at the highest levels we’ve seen in over 3 years There are over 67,000 (!!!) eng openings at tech companies globally right now, with 26,000 just in the U.S. We don’t know if there would have been more open roles if not for AI or if AI is actually leading to more open roles, but since the start of this year, the increase in open eng roles is accelerating even more.

Jensen Huang just drew a line through the entire global workforce. One sentence. No ambiguity. Huang: “If your job is the task, then you’re very highly going to be disrupted.” Not might be. Not eventually. Very highly going to be. That single distinction between a job and a task is the most important career diagnosis anyone will hear this decade. If you show up every day to execute a repeatable process, you are the process. And the machine runs processes better than you. Faster. Cheaper. Without breaks. Without errors. Without a salary negotiation. The moment your role can be written as a checklist, the checklist gets automated. And your desk gets cleared. That is not a warning about the future. That is a description of what is already underway. But Huang did not stop at the diagnosis. He handed you the prescription in the same breath. Huang: “If your job’s purpose includes you certain tasks, then it is vital that you go learn how to use AI to automate those tasks.” Your job includes tasks. But your job is not the tasks. Your job is the judgment around them. The decisions. The context. The instinct for why the work matters and what to do when everything breaks. That stays human. Everything else gets handed to the machine. And the person who hands it over first does not lose their job. They become more valuable than everyone still doing it by hand. Because they just converted every hour they used to spend on execution into hours spent thinking. The accountant who automates data entry does not get replaced. They become the strategist who used to be buried in spreadsheets. The marketer who automates reporting does not get fired. They become the creative who used to be trapped building dashboards. The person who refuses to automate anything becomes the most expensive way to do the cheapest work. Huang: “It is the case that the technology will dislocate and will eliminate many tasks. And because it will automate it.” No softening. No hopeful footnote. Dislocation is coming. Tasks will be eliminated. That part is settled. The only open question is which side of that line you are standing on. The side that lost the tasks. Or the side that gave them away on purpose and kept the work that actually matters. One side gets disrupted. The other side gets dangerous. The gap between those two outcomes is not talent. Not credentials. Not experience. It is whether you learned to use the machine before the machine learned to replace you. That window is still open. It is closing faster than most people are willing to believe. And it does not reopen.

🚨 BREAKING: Claude can now build your entire resume and LinkedIn profile like a $500/hour executive recruiter from Robert Half. For free. Here are 12 prompts that get you interview calls within 7 days: (Save this before it disappears)

🚨 Do you understand what just happened at OpenAI.. on January 26.. Sam Altman told his own employees "we are planning to dramatically slow down hiring.. we think we'll be able to do so much more with fewer people".. that was 54 days ago.. today OpenAI announced they're nearly doubling their workforce.. 4,500 to 8,000.. by end of year.. the same man telling you that AI replaces workers.. just announced hiring 3,500 more humans because AI couldn't replace his.. so either the AI isn't good enough to do the work.. or Anthropic scared them so bad they threw the whole playbook out the window.. both answers are embarrassing.. but only one of them is true.. and Sam knows which one.

Meta just confirmed 16,000 layoffs but sources inside are telling me the real bloodbath is still coming Word is they're sitting on approval for another 12,000 cuts. Total elimination could hit 28,000 by March Got a DM from someone in Menlo Park facilities: they're already deactivating badge access for entire floors in MPK 20 and 21 The surviving engineers are being handed "AI collaboration protocols" - basically playbooks for working with agents that do 60% of what their dead teammates used to handle One source showed me the internal deck: "human-AI optimal ratios" calculated down to the exact headcount per product area Reality Labs? 4,200 people last month. Targeting 800 by summer. The rest replaced by AI simulation tools and offshore contractors running Cursor They're calling it "efficiency at scale" but the engineering director I talked to said it differently: "we're training the machine to make us obsolete and calling it innovation" Most brutal part: the knowledge extraction is already complete. Every code review, every architectural decision, every debugging session from the past 18 months - all logged, all catalogued, all feeding the replacement systems Senior staff engineers with 8+ years at Meta getting managed out while watching their documented expertise train the models that eliminate their roles The $135 billion AI spend isn't just R&D. It's severance costs and replacement systems rolled into one number One insider told me: "Zuck isn't building the metaverse anymore. He's building the post-engineer reality" If you're still at Meta and reading this - the list is already made

We as a society took a turn when people started podcasts instead of bands.

“If your $500K engineer isn’t burning at least $250K in tokens, something is wrong.”

Anthropic and OpenAI are both building PE-backed consulting arms to deploy AI inside companies. Let that sink in for a second. The two companies building the most powerful AI on earth looked at the market and said "businesses can't figure out how to use this. We need to go in and do it for them." They are literally telling you where the gap is. Companies have access to the best AI models ever built. And most of them are still running on spreadsheets, disconnected tools, and manual processes because nobody showed them how to actually implement it. That's the whole game right now. Not building better models (obviously) or shipping new features. IMPLEMENTATION. Getting AI inside real workflows. Mapping the processes, building the systems, and making it stick. I've been doing exactly this for 4 years and have worked with 80+ companies at this point. It started with automation and naturally flowed into Ai. And every single engagement starts the same way. Not with AI or automation but with a process map. Because AI alone won't fix broken operations. Companies now understand that. They have not yet seen true ROI from Ai. You have to understand how the business actually runs before you touch a single tool. Where does the data live? Where are the bottlenecks? What's manual that shouldn't be? What breaks when volume goes up? That's the work, and that's what Anthropic and OpenAI just told the entire market is worth billions. Every company is going AI-first over the next 3-5 years. The demand for people who can actually make that happen is about to be unlike anything we've seen. The labs told you where the gaps are. Now go fill them.

When your 18-year-old once water-loving Sprocker, who is partially blind, has arthritis and dementia, wants to stay out in the pouring rain splashing around just like when he was a puppy..🐕🐾🥹❤️

Andrew Yang is calling it "The Fuckening." That's his actual word for it. And honestly it fits. A CEO of a publicly traded tech company told him directly: "We're firing 15% now. Another 20% in two years. Another 20% after that." There are 70 million white collar workers in this country. Yang projects 20 to 50% of those jobs gone within a few years. The low end of that is 14 million people. The entire 2008 crisis wiped out 8.7 million. The difference this time is the jobs don't come back. A recession ends and companies rehire. This time the work still gets done. It just gets done by software. The position itself stops existing. Nothing expands margins like replacing a $379K employee with a $200/month subscription. We track it all at layoffhedge.com. 58 companies. 254,000 people. And climbing. Yang is writing about what's coming. We're counting what's already here.

ANTHROPIC JUST TURNED YOUR PHONE INTO A REMOTE CONTROL FOR AN AI WORKER ON YOUR COMPUTER. You can text Claude from your phone and it will handle desktop tasks, search files, check Slack, and come back with the work done.

“Every software company in the world needs to have a Claw strategy" - Jensen Huang, Nvidia Indeed. This and more.

HR: "The employee survey is 100% private." Manager the next day 👇

Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.

Anthropic just said no to the Pentagon. Then their biggest rival backed them up. The Department of War gave Anthropic a 5:01 PM Friday deadline. Drop the safeguards against mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons. Or lose the $200 million contract and get labeled a supply chain risk. Amodei: “These threats do not change our position. We cannot in good conscience accede to their request.” “Supply chain risk” is a designation typically stamped on foreign adversaries. It would have derailed every critical partnership Anthropic has. He held the line anyway. Then Sam Altman went on CNBC. Altman: “I don’t personally think the Pentagon should be threatening DPA against these companies.” The two fiercest rivals in AI just drew the same red line in public. Simultaneously. No coordination. No joint statement. Just two competitors independently concluding that some lines cannot be crossed. Altman: “For all the differences I have with Anthropic, I mostly trust them as a company, and I think they really do care about safety.” Altman and Amodei declined to clasp hands in a group photo at India’s AI summit last week. Today Altman defended him on live television. 70 OpenAI employees signed an open letter titled “We Will Not Be Divided.” Google engineers voiced support. The industry unified in hours. Trump responded on Truth Social with a six-month federal phaseout of Anthropic’s products. Here is what this moment actually is. The two companies building the most powerful technology in human history just told the government there are uses of that technology they will not permit. Not for $200 million. Not under threat of the Defense Production Act. Not under any pressure the government can apply. Mass surveillance of Americans. Fully autonomous weapons operating without human oversight. These are the lines. The architects of superintelligence just declared they answer to something beyond the contract. That has never happened before.

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company. #### today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone. first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay. we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly. i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures. a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers. we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold. to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward. to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow. jack

Going Founder Mode On Cancer centuryofbio.com/p/sid Sid Sijbrandij is a generational founder. He founded and led GitLab, one of the largest remote companies in the world, from idea-stage startup to NASDAQ-listed software giant. But in 2022, a six centimeter mass growing from his upper spine threatened to end all of that. He had cancer. What happened next is nothing short of remarkable. Sid went founder mode on his care journey. In the years since, he's deployed cutting-edge genomics to profile his disease. Based on this data, he's developed a growing armamentarium of personalized therapies. As a result, his disease is now undetectable. A simplistic version of this story could be, “Wow! A brilliant billionaire seemingly cured his cancer. Good for him!” But as I’ve gotten to know Sid, it’s become abundantly clear to me that there is more to the story than that. In an in-depth profile for The Century of Biology, I explore Sid's journey and what this might mean for the future of cancer care.

This story is actually insane: • dude drops $2000 on a DJI robot vacuum like a lunatic • refuses to use the normal app like a peasant • Sammy Azdoufal fires up Claude to crack the API so he can drive it with an xbox controller • Claude delivers the goods • pulls an auth token from their servers, connects successfully • except the system thinks he controls 7000 vacuums • checks again • yep, seven thousand • DJI built authentication with zero device ownership verification • any valid token works for any unit on the planet • Sammy now has eyes inside homes across 24 countries • live vacuum camera feeds everywhere • full floor plans from the mapping data • some guy in germany eating cereal at 3am, unaware his roomba is snitching • one API call away from being the most informed burglar in history • all he wanted was to steer his vacuum with a joystick • does the right thing and reports it • DJI fixes it in two days • back to normal life with his stupidly expensive floor cleaner • IoT companies stay undefeated at shipping garbage security

Software engineers in 2030 be like

This is Nazgul. A 2-year-old Czechoslovakian Wolfdog who escaped his enclosure at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics cross-country sprint in Italy. Decided to join the racers, sprinted alongside the pros, and crossed the finish line unharmed.