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Snap laying off 16% of full-time staff (r/cscareerquestions)
- EntropyRX: Because AI, sure thing LOL. Man, did you look at Snap as a company? It’s over with or without AI
- a_velis: No amount of AI will magically move people back to Snapchat. Unless they are building another product.
Management keeps pushing AI harder, but nobody wants to hear that review is now the bottleneck (r/cscareerquestions)
- Crazypyro: The worst thing is I have to spend more time reviewing a PR than the fucking person who implemented the feature spent thinking about it.
- rwilcox: The most annoying thing about the AI crowd is that _any_ push back, or even just “woh hold up” gets you labeled as anti-AI.
Has anyone else’s job become insuferable with everyone trying to jam AI into everything? (r/cscareerquestions)
- crazy0ne: Yes. It makes having conversations about why AI is not making something go “faster” sound like I’m incompetent when the answer is bad architecture still has consequences, AI or not.
- BigRedThread: Yes, i’m a senior swe and my job is literally just claude context management at this point, with ai pods trying to give us as much slop work as we can handle to accelerate delivery and “10x output”. Software engineering is kind of ass now
Founding Engineer at AI startup or MAANG (Blind)
- Mesk: Your equity/ vesting / terms do not reflect founding engineer terms. 18 month cliff is not common 0.15 is too less of an equity. Cash is slightly higher. If you want to learn and grow, startups are better. You will learn more than just coding that will serve you well. You should talk about better vesting terms and more equity though. If the goal is maximizing expected income, MAANG is unbeatable. You will be taking a proven path of maximizing TC in the rat race with much higher expected outcome.
- luadipid: 0.15% equity is worthless, jump ship to MAANG, skill up, make connections, and if you want to pursue startups again use your skills and network and get a founder position (whole number percentage equity)
AI Startup Offer, Early Engineer, L6 => Director (Blind)
- koool: Go to the startup. Nothing to lose but time
- tvzM62: Having done exactly this before, I would never do it again. I regret leaving an amazing career path for a startup gamble and easily gave up ~\$1mm by doing it. If you think you can build something special, found your own startup. 2% of a company is nothing, you’re working to make your founders rich.