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How’s this possible? CTO at OpenAI (Blind)

• slvi: I worked with him at XAI. He was insanely good. Outcompeted everyone
• Sportify (Salesforce): Sam Altman saw that he studied at Chaitanya Bharathi institute of technology and realized that he had found OpenAI’s next leader
• ex-aviato (ex-Snowflake): Doesn’t matter how. He’s a CTO and you’re not. Do you go around asking all the worlds billionaires how they got rich? Some people are talented and some are not, and then there’s network which is one of the biggest pull. If you aren’t in the right circles it doesn’t matter if you built Google search or a spaceship.

Laid off in my 40s, and the market feels completely hostile to senior talent. (Blind)

• Tweakday (Workday): old ahh man it’s prolly ur attitude holding u back 😂 wouldn’t wanna work w u unc
• 0"9 (EATON): “It feels like the market has silently written off anyone with a long resume in favor of cheaper mid-level talent and H1Bs who won’t question ridiculous work hours.” yea for sure you are not going to go anywhere with this loser coping/blaming attitude rofl.
• Balimahn (Meta): I think you should target companies that value senior engineers like Databricks, Cloudflare, and Stripe. I know AI labs employ seniors too so no harm in looking at them. I can share Stripe and Anthropic material cause that I’ve been able to gather, and anything else I find. Also have you considered looking outside big tech? Work on something, startup? Why are you still so hell bent on playing a game we all want out of?

Leaving Apple for Meta was the single worst career decision I’ve ever made. (Blind)

• Sstayn (Google): Meta has to be a real fucking shit show for you to romanticize Apple after all I’ve heard from my friends. But hey, having Meta and Apple on your resume should give you a boost 90% of this market would kill for. I have Google prep notes covering theprocess if you want them.
• charliewho (OpenAI): I know exactly how you felt. Left Apple, got burnt, bad job market experience but landed eventually. Good luck mate
• gabbbbb (Apple): Just reapply. As long as you didn’t steal IP as you left you’re good to come back, and it sounds like you’re in the AIML space where there is hiring

“He’s an analog man in a digital AI world”: Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ made back its \$250M budget in 3 days without industrywide AI cost cutting (r/technology)

• A_pirates_life4me: I think he’s just a good director in a sea of mediocre directors
• NoMark3945: Turns out audiences care more about spectacle they can feel than whether the production pipeline was cheap. Cost cutting is invisible; ambition is not.
• Automatic-Wind-6501: “industrywide AI cost cutting” is just C-suite translation for “we fired the VFX artists and now our 200 million dollar movie looks like a blurry PS3 cutscene.” turns out people actually want to pay for quality.

Five tech giants are hiding \$1.65tn in AI debt, using the trick that toppled Enron (r/technology)

• agha0013: some Enron magic, sprinkled with some of the magic that led to the 2008 housing crash, and zero lessons learned as financial institutions try to repackage and sell the debt all over the world.
• The_Homie_Tito: So when does the bubble burst?
• pepe_acct: Yeah this article is trash. The author ignored some important caveats: 1. Future commitments are not considered debt because they don’t have interest. 2. Many commitments are multi year. It’s paying 1.6 trillion across years not immediately. 3. In many cases, when the business prospects doesn’t make sense anymore, many of them can just pause the deal or just exit. There’s generally exit options in the deals and these large constructions get delayed all the time. 4. Most of these future commitments has nothing to do with Enron. This is peak title rage baiting