2026-05-07 Social Tech Briefing Summary
Generated by Codex with GPT-5
What’s the best company to have on your resume as tech hiring is being reshaped? (Blind)
- apple145 (Meta): Role > Company especially after junior levels. If I’m a janitor at Anthropic, is that really impressive?
- jsueppoklk (Anduril): I think this is a stupid poll. Can that be an option?
- hd7Vat (DoubleVerify): I don’t think IBM was ever S tier since the ’80s.
Why does Leetcode still exist (Blind)
- takoyaki79 (Datadog): Leetcode was just a filter. Why do people not understand this. It sucked but actually straightforward to grind. You are going to miss it I promise. I honestly believe interviews will soon be build and deploy an entire product end to end in an hour. With a lot more room for interviewer bias. “Sorry your solution didnt have “taste””
- BeEvil_ (Google): Leetcode was always useless
- slackerswe (Microsoft): It’s a proxy to determine your ability to solve problems. It’s not perfect. Google was doing it before leetcode was a thing. It worked out for them, rest copied it.
How to deal with AI slop essay colleagues (Blind)
- EditConfig (Google): Paste their AI response to another AI and respond back with that response. Make sure to begin the prompt with “you’re a nitpicking, disagreeable, autist”.
- MomDonny (Disney Streaming Services): So you prefer “read the code”?
- funhero (Microsoft): At Microsoft there are a lot of Indian engineers and it is common for folks to use ai to help organize their thoughts. So they may also be using it in this way as a sort of “pseudo translator” to try to get their thoughts across better.
A Michigan farm town voted down plans for a giant OpenAI-Oracle data center. Weeks later, construction began (r/technology)
- rudebii: Im sure there are other means to make the data center go away, but the only ones I can think of will get me banned by Reddit’s AI moderation.
- Eskimomonk: Sounds to me like the people of that town deserve to own that data center and the profits of whatever it generates
- veracity8_: It’s crazy that data centers can get built overnight but when someone suggests legalizing duplexes in the Denver metro residents riot at city hall
xAI will be dissolved as a separate entity. (r/singularity)
- Fine-Drummer9812: This is what Elon wanted to do with OpenAI and Tesla
- AdAnnual5736: AKA jam all of the unprofitable companies into the profitable company that’s kept afloat by government contracts.
- MysteriousPepper8908: Seems like if you really believed in your AI efforts, you would want that as more than just a product of a completely unrelated enterprise.
TikTok’s algorithm favored Republican content in 2024 US elections, study finds (r/technology)
- temporarycreature: Figuratively speaking, my jaw has practically hit the floor, my eyes have rounded into perfect, incredulous circles of disbelief, and every fiber of my yellow fur is buzzing with the realization that the very results I expected to be found are actually found.
- adrr: Of course it did. China wants the GOP in power. They know they’ll run up the debt, not invest in infrastructure, not invest in cheaper electricity with solar and wind, cut spending on science, cut spending on education. GOP will just help makes the billionaires richer.
- Local_Fly_7359: China wants us weak with weak leadership.
I’m curious if “I’m curious” is the new em dash AI tell (r/webdev)
- Bodine12: Honest take? It’s 100% AI—and your instinct is right to call this out. Curious if any others here feel the same.
- remy_porter: I’d caution against looking for such simplistic tells. Like the em-dash, there’s a lot of chance for false positives. Ditto the “it’s not just x, it’s y.” I’d look for the broader feel of the text- to this day, LLM generated text just causes my eyes to slide right over it. It’s basically unreadable, not in the sense that it fails to look like text, but in the fact that it’s so devoid of information that there’s no reason to read it.
- bobtheorangutan: I’m curious — maybe I’m the AI