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Career hack: Stop being an engineer and switch to management. (Blind)
- nebula12 (Amazon): Truly spoken like an L3/L4 engineer. Dealing with code is way simpler than dealing with people. What you see is a fraction of what they do
- PromoNever (Google): It’s non stop meetings. Both during and after working hours. There’s no, eh, I’ll just code at 2am. The meetings are endless!!!
- hfWh13 (Cohere): Tell me you’ve never been a manager without telling me.
Can You Survive as an IC After 40 in the AI Era? (Blind)
- heXm60 (Google): I feel AI makes it much easier for senior IC to perform because you have an army of AI agents that can help you deliver much faster since you have done those things 10000 times
- HGIK28 (DigitalOcean): AI will kill more managers than senior ICs. You don’t need that many people manager since every IC is an agent manager.
- Turnusdown (Apple): My team at Apple literally has 70 year old SWEs trying to vibe code.
Google headcount grew 6% in the last year (Blind)
- Ugsgave (Google): We have a lot less contractors and way more of the new headcount is in cheaper countries
- lifeflow (Netflix): I thought AI is going to do the jobs!
- gewgul (Google): It’s unacceptable. Absolutely ridiculous. We need to lay more people off. Expect mass layoffs in the coming months. We are over hiring severely.
SpaceX Investors in Meltdown Over All the Money They’ve Lost (r/technology)
- drummer820: If only someone had warned them besides EVERYBODY
- BeachZed: The money isn’t lost, they gave to Elon and his insider investors.
- anti-ism-ist: No crying in the casino
If open weight models are the future, U.S. AI companies are going to have a hard time (r/technology)
- mykepagan: I work in the industry. I’m seeing large financial institutions who are extremely interested in smaller open models because they see much value in fine tuning them with the mountains of proprietary data that they have accumulated for decades. The desire is for a custom model that is very specific to a task like prediction or anomaly detection. And they absolutely don’t what to give that data to any third-party AI company.
- PhiNeurOZOMu68: Spent extremely little tokens for Claude helping me tune a local model on my pc - now I just use the local model without shelling out \$200 a month. It’s amazing. Big US AI companies are going to fail. China already won.
- seriousgourmetshit: The only reason the US AI companies are stressing safety concerns so much lately, is so they can get Chinese models banned. They dont give a fuck about you or your safety.