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Coworker uses AI to write all his messages (Blind)
- TXPg31 (NVIDIA): Things like status updates are mostly performative BS anyway. Why wouldn’t he optimize? This is one of the places where slop is actually the right solution.
- jkWb53 (Coinbase): Start doing the same before you become the team bottleneck. Nobody cares about your artisanal code, so get off your high horse and meet your weekly PR quotas ASAP
- f thuggery (Roku): Use Ai to summarize his messages and it won’t bother you anymore
Don’t come to Bloomberg I think we’re doomed… (Blind)
- BBaxel (Bloomberg): Just making stuff up. There’s no 15-20% layoff. Stop the fear mongering. We’ve still had zero layoffs and there’s no real news of one coming up
- merchant0 (Klaviyo): Damn that’s actually so cooked. My dream job was Bloomberg because I assumed no layoffs. Thank the lord I failed r4 of my interviews last year.
- WPslayer (Bloomberg): it was 10% last week in December. 20% by October on he following Monday. By Friday, 75% of us will be getting shitcanned by Sept 1st.
Genuinely why would anyone want to work at Microsoft at this point? (Blind)
- EdSnowden👀 (Oracle): You can either work at Microsoft for \$250k TC or some mid-sized company for \$150k.
- xcdvetyui1 (Microsoft): Unlimited PTO. People regularly go 3 weeks. Especially to India and often 4 or 5 and work weeks from there. The place shuts down 3 weeks at holiday. Tradeoff is extreme politics and everyone worships the CVP. Not innovative at all. Just navigating org politics and endless reviews before you can build anything.
- murderbot6 (Meta): what are the better options? rolling layoffs seem to be the norm now
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility / The shipment was found at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books (r/technology)
- Brick_Cabin2529: 404 is pretty great aren’t they? hope they keep up this quality of work
- Waidawut: An appalling desecration in the name of “progress” – it’s the American way.
- bryguypgh: We need a law against destroying the last known physical copy of a book with astronomical penalties. This is a crime against humanity.
Honey loses over 7 million users and 7,000 stores following YouTuber’s viral expose (r/technology)
- Maleficent-Serve2553: In conjunction with the Phoebe Gates news in the same vein, it feels like an increasing number of companies are battling for attribution of a declining number of legitimate consumer purchases (i.e., stealing someone’s margin is more profitable than creating new organic sales).
- Tasty-Traffic-680: Honey, I blew up my business model
- YAELLINGISFUN: Losing 35% of your users and 20% of your merchants because one guy made a YouTube video is the kind of accountability regulators should be embarrassed they didn’t provide first.