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People with > 10 years in tech (Blind)

• sergum (PayPal): 32+ yrs in tech in SV. I am not very smart, but i survive like a cockroach. Never ass-kissed. But there were moments when i should have spoken up, but chose to stay silent. Never attempted to climb too high, but accolades came every now and then. Cordial but strictly professional relations with coworkers. Was cocky in my 20s, but mellowed over the years. Hard work, timely delivery, excellent written communication since pre-AI days. I think my biggest asset is being stupid and not having a strong/passionate opinion about anything in tech. Like when people fight about Windows vs Linux or Android vs iOS, I find it mildly amusing. Just tools for a techie to make money. Life’s joy lies elsewhere.
  
  But this AI thing + my age may be my last gasp. Still singing my swan song though!
• speedboats (Palo Alto Networks): Perspective. Many people in the US don’t know where their next meal will be. This job market is apocalyptic. Trying to remain grateful for what I have in these trying times. Sometimes I have to remember the grass may not be greener somewhere else, the entire field might be burned to a fucking crisp.
• puppy18 (Meta): Some level of enjoying the job does matter. While I wouldn’t say I jump out of bed every day, I would find it hard to be a lawyer, for instance, relative to swe.
  
  Tech used to be more fun tbh. Harder to love it now.

Most Microslop “products” are garbage that are shoved into the throats of employees (Blind)

• lb5fh6 (New): I can’t wrap my head around the success of Teams. It’s the worst chat app I have ever used. Hundreds of people that don’t look at “Teams and Channels” section due to how clunky it is. Basic shit like copy and paste is difficult. Following conversations is way harder than it should be. Chats flood the UI.
  
  I could go on and on. It’s so shit yet so ubiquitous.
• 3rdmoon (ServiceNow): It’s the problem of enterprise sales. Someone at your company buys a thing. They get talked into a bundle for all it will save them. It takes a year to install the product and get it configured, and it’s a 3-5 year contract.
  
  The people who have to use the product don’t have a voice in saying it’s crap, or shopping for something different.
• KtAJ87 (Microsoft): This is the enigma of success in an industry that has no franchise value

Anthropic’s Q3 Revenue Soars to \$16.8B Pre-IPO – A New AI Benchmark? (Blind)

• PornSpot (HubSpot): I can think of millions of ways to come up with 1 trillion quarterly revenue if I’m allowed to have 2 trillions in costs….. this proves nothing
• SatyasYot (Microsoft): Growth is already slowing. It’s a bad sign.
• phrubc (Undisclosed): Lol they were claiming 100bil annualised revenue earlier. This is a disaster

Amazon Bee devices. Dead on arrival. What a bunch of morons. Seriously (Blind)

• Shift<Left (Amazon): More Amazon garbage that’s destined for a landfill near you.
• groove-eng (Amazon): Not sure who approved the acquisition of Bee, and why we spent money on developing these products.
• LtJQ13 (Amazon): It’s that time of the year. Amazon announcing a bunch of new consumer devices and offering deals on .com around thanksgiving to tric customers into buying them once the hype wears off..

Surrounded by coworkers who don’t like AI (Blind)

• 0G ‎ (Meta): Yolo and unleash the agent swarm
• 582!! (Amazon): They are protecting their jobs and I agree they should refuse to use AI everywhere without any purpose
• 0G ‎ (Meta): I literally don’t reply to humans now. Agents responds to my XFN and fix issues autonomously. Sometimes it’s shit but mostly works just fine