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RIP Meta! First Alexander Wang..and now Kunal Shah (Blind)

• purefect (Everpure): For those whose life doesn’t revolve around Meta, we need context.
• zumb (Amazon): Kunal shah is the most fake ceo
• Provian: Simple deal..CRED will sell customer credit data to Meta, in return negotiated for a global WhatsApp ceo role.

I refused to do a leetcode hard (Blind)

• dHh467 (Microsoft): Ah, yes. Companies are known to beg for the talent at, let me see…Capital One? Oh.
• g8rb8r (Amazon): And then everyone clapped!
• 6_7️⃣ (Cyberhaven): Moral of the story, op didn’t get the job

SpaceX stock tumbles 16.4%, shaving off most IPO gains since debut (r/technology)

• Prudent_Link6029: It may look like the stock is crashing, but it’s actually landing autonomously, which is a massive engineering achievement
• 9ersaur: Data Centers in Space will go down as one of the great scams of all time
• mediocre_remnants: If it drops another 98% it might be worth buying in!

EA Lays Off Unknown Number Of People Ahead Of Expected \$55 Billion Sale To Saudi Arabia (r/technology)

• miniannna: The most EA thing EA has ever done
• Chrono_Convoy: I hope the creatives from EA who get laid off Pixar the living shit out of that Disney
• GabeDef: EA and Adobe are a masterclass in ruining your brand.

Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People (r/technology)

• Teddy_RGB: Remember when there was a push to have stalkers and DV abusers ineligible to own firearms, but they had to stop that because so many cops would have to get fired? Good times.
• miniannna: What Clockwork Orange got the most right was the type of people who become cops. Bullies who want to keep doing the same thing in an official capacity.
• SlapThatAce: Memba when we made fun of China for being a surveillance State? Because I memba….

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The Pragmatic Engineer surfaced this piece in Gergely Orosz’s June 23, 2026 essay, Slow down to speed up: so much has changed in 6 months’ time. Based on his Craft Conference keynote and reporting across AI labs, large technology companies, startups, and traditional enterprises, the article argues that software development has crossed an important threshold: coding agents can now generate changes faster than many teams can review, understand, and safely absorb them.

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Being looked down upon as Amazon employee (Blind)

• horn dog (Meta): H1Bs and their obsession with prestige 🙄
• aWxzt (Uber): At my team we reject all amzn resumes due to assumption any amzn employee looking is likely on pip
• Big Cack (Amazon): You’re hanging out with the wrong people son

Grad to staff in 2 years at meta (Blind)

• CapybaraBK (Booking.com): They are a complete liar, not rare for people that turn into founders to lie about their background.
• bo34fi86fi (Meta): Not really. On average meta e3 to e4 takes a year, then e4 to e5 around 2 years. e5 is only senior. Staff is e6. To get to e6 there needs to be enough scope/business reason for the manager to justify it., and it takes years usually. Also the promotion is lagging so you essentially need to be performing at an e6 level for around a year before you get promoted.
• cv-x (Mercedes-Benz AG): No, but you can get from Staff to unemployment in 2 years

Americans Have Turned Against AI in Incredible Numbers (r/technology)

• UnderstandingLess156: Meanwhile at work, “have you tried using AI to write your emails?”
• Arcosim: I’m a very tech oriented person and I’m already tired of AI because it’s constantly being shoved and pushed down my throat by some of the worst human beings imaginable wanting to maximize profits at the expense of humanity itself.
• Asyncrosaurus: Who knew having every CEO come out and scream about how their cool new AI product was going to cause mass unemployment, would result in backlash. No way to have forseen that.

Polymarket Accused of Using Fake Winning Bets to Fuel Viral Growth (r/technology)

• mugwhyrt: If we can’t trust polymarket, who can we trust?
• xxxx69420xx: the bookies now work from costa rica with impunity
• Soft_Lunch_183: Owning a platform like polymarket is literally free money, you let people take bets against each other and then just take a cut out of the middle.

76-year-old woman killed after a Tesla ‘on auto-pilot’ crashed into her Texas home (r/technology)

• Ruddertail: Jeez, how fast was it going to punch a hole like that? That’s crazy unless they build houses out of paper in Texas.
• orangeyougladiator: Cue Elon bots coming to tell us why this wasn’t the Tesla fault
• sysadminbj: I’d be very curious to learn what the onboard sensors have to say about this. Was the driver paying attention? Were they asleep? Is this just a freak thing where the autopilot software got confused and freaked out?

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Techmeme surfaced Lily Hay Newman’s WIRED report, “OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s Mythos”, published June 22. The story captures a practical shift in AI security: frontier models are making vulnerability discovery cheap enough that finding bugs is no longer necessarily the hardest part. The new constraint is the human and organizational work required to validate reports, decide what matters, write acceptable fixes, test them, and coordinate disclosure.

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Amazon VP argues humans are too inconsistent to oversee AI agents (Blind)

• ShitFarce (Salesforce): First humans were needed in the loop because they feared the backlash. Now its too much of a risk because fuck humans. I bet that VP can be easily replaced by an agent
• 小熊维尼 (Palo Alto Networks): Of course a dumbass at Amazon would say this
• XpBs23 (Meta): Leaders think they have intuition to make the right decision, 95% of the time it’s just luck

Techies: Where do you guys plan on retiring to? (Blind)

• DoesntWork (Justworks): Some place where I can’t be taxed. Some place where the US has 0 control. I think the Strait of Hormuz would be excellent.
• geffler (Microsoft): Everyone seems to talk about expat and moving to SE Asia but reality is everyone stays in USA
• hyX774J (Google): Taiwan and Andorra are the only countries with same-sex marriage and no extradition treaty with the US

Morale is so bad at Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta even the company’s own CTO admits it’s ‘probably the worst it’s ever been’ (r/technology)

• Prudent_Link6029: Virtual pizza in the metaverse should boost morale
• casualfrog68: The firings will continue until the morale improves.
• hmmm_: Every company I’ve ever been at, once employees feel they are disposable it’s over. You don’t easily recover. It corrodes individual performance, it gets team fighting each other, good people start to leave. It’s an insidious change in the way a company feels and the negative effect accumulates over time - usually CEO/CFOs have the good sense to move on so the new CEO gets blamed for the decrease in company performance.

Ukraine launches TrophyLab platform to share captured Russian weapons’ technology with allies — “Every missile, drone, and vehicle seized on the battlefield is now a source of knowledge for the free world” (r/technology)

• LifeFeckinBrilliant: Any Chinese or Iranian stuff I wonder…
• NeonFraction: They’re about to make some military nerds VERY happy.
• Puzzled-Hedgehog4984: The reverse-engineering pipeline has been running since 2022 — this just makes the output shareable at scale. What’s underrated here isn’t the captured hardware, it’s the institutional knowledge Ukraine is building about exactly where Russian supply chain quality breaks down. That catalog has value well beyond this war.

Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang says electricians and plumbers will be needed by the hundreds of thousands in the new working world (r/technology)

• asdf_lord: So like, less than what’s currently employed????
• pharmloverpharmlover: “We need cheap humans to feed the machines that feed my bank account”
• C_Pala: The new " just learn to code, bro" just dropped

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Techmeme surfaced the Wall Street Journal investigation They Looked Like They Were Getting Rich on Polymarket—but None of It Was Real, published June 21. The article examines how a product built around publicly observable wagers marketed itself through videos of trades that never happened.

The Journal reviewed more than 1,100 videos, creator instructions, and interviews with people who worked in Polymarket’s paid content program. It found dozens of mostly college-age creators filming staged trades and, in some cases, fabricated wins. The videos looked like personal accounts of successful betting, but the activity shown did not correspond to transactions on Polymarket’s actual market.

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Company tiers for SWE in 2026 - yes another try (Blind)

• IkYV84 (Autodesk): I don’t get why people keep posting the so-called “tier list”, is it really important? Why does prestige even matter? Why would you care what other people think? I went from FFANG to my current company and I couldn’t be happier. The best company will always be individual specific and not some list based on someone else’s opinion.
• fscP66 (TikTok): Netflix erasure. Also Nvidia gets glazed despite paying like it’s Microsoft for SWEs 🤡
• exFrontier (xAI): Any tier list that doesn’t attempt to rank hft/quant is not serious. You lack knowledge of the world around you

He regrets the layoffs. (Blind)

• l5sn94ns (Microsoft): He also takes full responsibility.
• desRt24 (Meta): Morale inside the company is crazy down. Almost everyone is not interested in work, looking for jobs outside. So he is saying these things to gain some trust, but not working.
• finlandd (Blend): If he regrets it, he can always hire them back. But he won’t because he doesn’t actually regret the decision.

Anne Hathaway says she was spammed with ChatGPT-written thank you notes after hiring for a recent role: “Nobody on that list gets that job” (r/technology)

• Grammaton485: Dunno if anyone else had this growing up, but my parents tried to force thank-you notes into almost everything.
• procrastinarian: Imagine how much better the world would be if we all did away with all this artifice.
• Madness_Quotient: Thank you notes are inherently lies, it’s no wonder people turn to AI to relieve them of the burden of applying intelligence to the task.

Low-skilled attacker used Claude, Codex to breach 14 companies (r/technology)

• Just-Grocery-2229: Claude out here doing the heavy lifting while the human takes all the credit in prison.
• Nepalus: I think it’s definitely something that is becoming more prevalent. Worse yet, good luck trying to extradite or get to people in some of these remote places in the world. Cutting edge AI tooling in the hands of just a single rogue actor half way around the world is one thing, what happens when it’s a whole office building working in concert to attack companies, electric grids, etc?
• Icy_Yam_9951: If I ever decide to use Claude to hack a company, I’ll make sure to ask it for help improving the resume of an african guy. And replace my IP with an african one.

Grocery Stores Deploying “AI Shopping Carts” Stuffed With Cameras to Track Your Exact Coordinates and Bombard You With Ads (r/technology)

• cheesesteakhellscape: Every time it shows me an ad for something, i’m taking it out of my cart out of spite.
• Bunkerman91: The person who came up with this needs to be…well…you know. Same goes for whoever thought to put advertisements in gas station pumps. You have to be absolute filth of a person to even have those sorts of ideas in the first place.
• discgman: It will also adjust the price

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The Pragmatic Engineer surfaced this piece in its June 17 episode, CI/CD with Robert Erez, a conversation between Gergely Orosz and Octopus Deploy principal engineer Robert Erez about how modern teams ship software safely.

The episode’s central argument is that deployment practice should optimize for recoverability and control, not for maximal automation. Continuous deployment—sending every successful change directly to production—is useful in some environments, but continuous delivery is often the more practical goal. A team can keep every change tested and ready to release while retaining a deliberate production gate when its risk profile demands one.

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Cloudflare’s official engineering blog published Build your own vulnerability harness, a June 18, 2026 post about turning frontier-model security review from one-off agent sessions into a persistent, model-agnostic vulnerability discovery and validation pipeline.

The post is interesting because it treats the model as the least durable part of the system. Cloudflare’s argument is that enterprise-scale security scanning cannot depend on a single prompt, a single coding agent, or a single model provider. Models change, context windows fill up, and different models see different bug classes. The durable asset is the harness around them: state, task isolation, adversarial validation, deduplication, production reachability checks, and a path from evidence to reviewed patches.

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Techmeme surfaced Matt Kapko’s CyberScoop report, “How software development’s speed obsession enabled TeamPCP’s chaos crusade”, a June 18 investigation into a threat actor that has turned the software industry’s most convenient distribution paths into a large-scale credential-stealing system.

The headline number is difficult to ignore: in less than four months, TeamPCP has compromised or poisoned more than 1,000 software packages. CyberScoop says those packages collectively account for roughly 500 million weekly downloads, although exposure does not mean every download became an exploited machine. The campaign has touched npm, PyPI, GitHub Actions, VS Code extensions, security scanners, AI infrastructure, and cloud tooling. Its claimed or attributed victims include projects associated with Trivy, Checkmarx, LiteLLM, Telnyx, Bitwarden, TanStack, SAP, Mistral AI, Microsoft, and Red Hat.