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Laid off a year ago, I feel like I am not relevant anymore and going in depression (Blind)

• fbiesj (Amazon): People turn their back on you the moment you are no use for them. I see you identified this truth. Dwell into this until you stop seeking outside for help. Let people move on, they don’t define you or your goals.
  
  It looks like you have done well in life to sustain 1.5 years without a job. Use that as a blessing to see what you can do by yourself without depending on others. Most people cannot sustain 1.5 yrs without earning their daily bread.
  
  You seem satisfied with your fulfilled career, maybe explore other career options you always wanted to try? It’s a new day.
• slackerswe (Microsoft): You were a senior director so a lot of potential employers probably assume they can’t hire you in a role with as much scope/impact so they won’t interview you.
  
  The higher up you go in the chain the more important connections/network becomes since there simply aren’t as many director jobs.
  
  You have done well for yourself. It simply takes time to get leadership/management roles.
  Also don’t think too much about your interactions. Some might not be responding if they don’t have anything to offer btw. But a lot of interactions are simply transactional anyway.
• 52Mbb (The Nature’s Bounty): I just ended my 18 month job search and signed an offer today. I had to let go my ego. Dumbed down my yoe from 11 to 6 (left out everything before my masters) and accepted an offer that was lower than I wanted for a domain and org I liked. But being employed is better than not in most cases.

Coreweave vs stay at Meta (Blind)

• idisbdjfi: What team at CoreWeave? We busy af, lots of interesting work, high pressure but high reward. Stock price is tanking though…
• 🍏=>🍎 (Apple): I think it is a runway question. How long can you last at Meta and how long CoreWeave can last in this market.
• LbAL42: As a CoreWeave employee, I would advise against CoreWeave. But your situation at Meta sounds like you may not be there much longer. The neo-cloud industry is shaky as is

Is 40yo too old to join hot AI startups? (Blind)

• alphab1ind (Google): It’s the startups that want to hire experienced 40yo Meta engineers that are the only ones worth joining. Everything else is a bunch of kids getting exploited by VCs.
• diuleiLM (Meta): Depends on how much you value time. Startups are intense and 60-70 hours work week are not unheard of
• amanreddy7 (Meta): From the infra side, I do not think age is the blocker. AI startups standing up GPU clusters need people who have actually run a fabric in production, and that judgement only comes from incidents: chasing a PFC storm, getting ECN thresholds right, bringing up an EVPN spine leaf without taking the cluster down. That is exactly the experience that takes years to build, and it is scarce.
  
  Are you aiming for infra roles there, or the product side?

OpenClaw creator spent \$10 million on AI tokens per month (Blind)

• LTBL15 (Cisco): I’m fine with a good public discussion of these matters but it’s not ok to bullshit and have your facts wrong
  
  If you cannot explain precisely how you think water is wasted cooling/operating a data center do not bring up water
  
  That is a foolish thing to say in 2026
• 101011010 (Pinterest): Water in data center is recycled dummy. You work in tech and you don’t even know this?
• amazonone (Amazon): Beta take

Using work AI for a side project (Blind)

• TheFrom (Apple): Just pay for it on the side dude. It’s not even that much. You can get \$500 a month plan if you really need it
• LTBL15 (Cisco): You dummy don’t even think about it
  
  These tools are metered & monitored. I don’t think I’m speaking out of school but let’s just say a very large company uses your azure infra to serve OpenAI class models specifically bc they can log & monitor usage (besides not going into training)
• Salim_Dion (Vanguard): Your company owns that IP now you idiot