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Is being L5 SWE at age 35+ damaged goods? (Blind)

• daMan1ac (Google): yep - once you hit 35 you should be president of usa
• KpopSrini (Salesforce): I am L4 level touching 50.
• dddjjj184 (Google): L4 ar 42. You do what you do

VP at Google. AMA. (Blind)

• Roti Prata (Standard Chartered Bank): Apart from the compensation, what are the perks of a VP at Google that might not available to everyone at Google?
• PjPq41 (Google): Fake post
• Dee’s (JPMorganChase): Bro posted an AMA to not answer

Ronny Chieng’s ‘F*ck AI’ Speech Met With Cheers From Harvard Graduates: “AI is just going to end up making mediocre people dumber” (r/technology)

• government_not_ok: He’s right tho.
• Elehaymyaele: The bitter truth is that they were already that dumb.
• the_millenial_falcon: I’ve noticed that mediocre people love AI the most.

Mystery company accidentally blew \$500 million on Claude AI in a single month — failed to put usage limit on licenses for employees (r/technology)

• Fateor42: Would be funny if they can’t pay and just declare bankruptcy leaving Claude holding the bag.
• MalaproposMalefactor: “cheaper than manual labor” 😃
• krum: Mystery company who’s name starts with the letter Microsoft.

Amazon scraps AI leaderboard to stop workers boosting usage scores — Senior executive tells staff ‘don’t use AI just for the sake of using AI’ as computing costs rise (r/technology)

• BentoMan: It’s like evaluating workers by how many commits they have. Then you end up with people committing one file at a time and jacking things up. Completely foreseeable.
• 4everLost82: So it sounds like, once again, the C-Suite suits have no fucking clue what they are doing…as always.
• JDGumby: Except, of course, that Amazon execs were the ones demanding the use of AI just for the sake of using AI in the first place…

Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code (r/technology)

• wiegerthefarmer: So it’s pvpve now?
• WesternBlueRanger: I see someone reads xkcd and knows about Little Bobby Tables.
• pilgermann: The point critics are missing is that if this works then LLM coding cannot be trusted. This is an entirely ynsophistocaged prompt injection. If the LLM doesn’t know to flag it, it should. That’s the whole issue. This could easily be added to any project.