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Is Alex wang from Scale AI legit (Blind)

• sfvq47 (Amazon): i mean he was MOP and on us physics team so he is fs genius
• hugMePls (Microsoft): He was the tech lead of quora at 16, someone also mentioned an international Olympiad as well. Joma tech actually has a video where he talks about being interviewed by him at 19. Dude’s cracked, unbelievably so.
• vristotle (Microsoft): Being good at high school math competitions isn’t the same as being a good leader. There are many posts on here talking about how inexperienced he is with real AI work and how inept of a leader he is. Not surprised, he seems very immature and grew up with a silver spoon

Amazon INTENSIONALLY leaks layoffs (Blind)

• nthin2lose (SentinelOne): Amazon knows how to keep everything toxic.
• Jefry (Salesforce): They also stack rank by spelling performance.
• liberat3d (ZenBusiness PBC): It’ll be ironic if they cut someone tomorrow who fixes their outage issues today.

Mass Layoffs Have Consequences (Blind)

• RowdySWE (Block): Elon basically gave CEOs permission to start doing this when he ripped apart twitter and it was still functioning.
• crazzak (Microsoft): Employees don’t feel invested in companies that throw them away like trash the second it saves them a buck; this leads to less innovation and decline in quality.
• JNSx07 (Manhattan Associates): But no one really cares… CEO only cares about quarterly results and share value.

Cloudflare lays off 1,100 people (r/technology)

• davidcelis: I know it’s probably automatic because of the similar titles, but hitting the bottom of the layoff announcement only to be recommended their post from last year about hiring 1,111 interns in 2026 is a reaaal bad look
• millanstar: So we can expect a major outtage in the coming months
• Albert3232: Being employed in the tech industry must be so stressful. Imagine having a mortgage to pay and knowing you can be laid off at any moment.

PSA: Instagram Encrypted Messaging Ends on Friday, May 8 (r/technology)

• Currentshop333: If this actually happens then a lot of people are going to realize how much they relied on encrypted DMs without even thinking about it. Feels like every platform keeps moving backwards on privacy lately.
• FlukyS: At that point they might as well remove messaging
• holyoctopus: Honestly anyone using any Meta products today and expecting privacy are out of their minds. Delete your Facebook and Instagram, stop using meta products if you care about this.

Apple is putting cameras in AirPods. What could possibly go wrong? (r/technology)

• loves_grapefruit: Why are they so obsessed with cameras? Why does it all have to lead to cameras??
• dichron: God that article was painful to read. Why do AI writers always have to say the same thing multiple times over in slightly different ways?
• VincentNacon: Did they forget that people have mid-to-long hair?

I’ve been working with a Vibe Coder and this has been my experience (r/webdev)

• AlmightyLarcener: I’m completely in the same situation. PRs with 2000 line changes. One of them contains Sentry.io, even though we do not use it. Every response is from Claude, I don’t even argue any more.
• shakjj: Sounds like YOU are vibecoding (by working with him). He is just a proxy. Sad to see people comfortable on that role.
• GASd-: people shipping code without any architectural considerations are nightmares

Looking for feedback on AI content in r/programming and the April no-AI trial (r/programming)

• PracticeAccording274: the april trial felt pretty good tbh, less noise in the feed and more actual programming discussions instead of endless “will ai replace us” posts
• davenirline: Oh Please keep it. I think it’s the only one sub that I go to that does this.
• Computer991: It was amazing, please keep it