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No interest in AI - what’s next? (Blind)

• logixxku2 (Microsoft): I agree, AI has taken the joy out of programming. It’s just waiting for the code to generate now. Nobody is an expert anymore. It feels like just waiting to die.
• gtq87623d (Google): If you hold an undergraduate science or engineering degree, you could sit for the patent bar exam. Also, in 4 states (California, Washington, Virginia, Vermont), you don’t need a law degree to be a lawyer. (I know this only because I went to a patent law feeder engineering school.)
• ⭕️ingBack (Microsoft): Medicine

LAYOFFS AT EBAY CAME FROM NOWHERE (Blind)

• djsjf9 (Capital One): At least they’re doing an ethically by today’s standards with an actual layoff instead of fake PIPs.
• HaoZhang (Meta): OP if you’re not in the top 10% of performers (you should be getting strongly exceeds or greatly exceeds ratings), you should be expecting layoffs to hit you.
  
  Don’t say it came out of nowhere. You should expect it.
• netsecpan (Palo Alto Networks): Who uses ebay?

Meta’s Muse was a stroke of genius (Blind)

• callstack (Microsoft): I see 2 main roadblocks:
  1. Companies will put up barriers so that only agents they sanction can interact with their website. Like amazon banning Muse.
  2. When companies permit certain consumer agents to access their site, will that agent actually act in the user’s best interest, or the company’s interest? What about things like ads and sponsored products/offerings?
  
  I really hope this can take off though. I’ve been travel planning and would love to have more powerful agents do research and filtering, and not paid off by companies to influence this research. Claude has done decently well but I’m hoping that these sites don’t start locking down what agents can glean from their sites.
• olalalelo (Bolt): Muse wasn’t the first successful proof of concept , openclaw was. Rise of Muse like products is obvious at this point
• pika chuut (Adobe): Why are you licking meta’s ass?

For people who passed the Anthropic or OpenAI loops: how did you know you were ready? (Blind)

• poppity (Amazon): +1.
  
  I’d love to know as well. Btw OP if you’re interviewing at those places rn lmk. I’m preparing for OpenAI (FDE, which has way less resources for study than SDE)
• DocuSFO (DocuSign): How you know that you may have loop next year ?
• AlphaBlndr (Google): I don’t these companies’ interviews are any special compared to Google or other big techs. They just tend to be more selective and a lot more luck is involved because of that.

Anthropic lost \$80 billion in 2026 🔥 (Blind)

• pqs888 (Broadcom): When is ipo? I hope it will be a success because if it fails, it’s not just anthrop going down but it will take all tech along with it. Market likely priced in government bailout if things get worse
• Go8he: > driven by \$72 billion in accounting charges tied to changes in the value of financial instruments Anthropic issued to raise money
  
  So they gave away equity in exchange for cash, the company increased in valuation, and it showed up in the accounting as a \$72B loss because it was worth more than when they issued it?
  
  If I’m reading that right, it seems like kind of a nothing burger. They didn’t lose money; they incurred an opportunity cost from giving away equity for way less than it became worth as they grew.
• fkxs04 (Amazon): They call me bubble boy
  
  They call me chicken little