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Google hiring 1580 FDEs is just insane??? (Blind)

• MasterAma (Amazon): Considering how shite Gemini is, they gonna be begging for a while there
• jinglebels (Microsoft): What is forward deployed engineer
• kBo7H (ex-Block): i thought ai was replacing jobs

Let’s see a human do this (Blind)

• MG778 (Meta): Yes I am using the Jacobian conjecture all the time. It is so over, best everyone moves to a monastery right now.
• c8ycyloy (Salesforce): I don’t know anything about this. But if it found a math proof to an older difficult problem, then that’s amazing by any definition.
• loll772 (Amazon): I am not a mathematician. Is this a big deal?

My teammate doesn’t even draft his own messages anymore (Blind)

• yneitjebrv (Automattic): Of course it feels weird. I feel completely disassociated and alienated from humanity never mind my coworkers talking to these bot shells. It utterly lays bare the fact that no one cares about their work and will just take the quickest shortcut. And who can blame them? The companies practically or in some cases explicitly endorse it.
• nughbg (Oracle): The biggest thing is that these people will be rewarded to adopt ai
• wertyq12 (Cisco): This is how it should be for stupid DMs.

Americans hate AI so much that politicians are starting to lose their jobs over it (r/technology)

• Clem573: Oh no! Anyway…
• karmakosmik1352: Not all is lost.
• GenericFatGuy: Good. Keep it going until they get the message.

SpaceX aborts launch after ignition, again – ends broadcast without an explanation (r/technology)

• crazydave33: Oh… this was a Falcon 9, not Starship. Was fully expecting Starship to have failed again. This is quite rare… wild it happened days after the Starship failure too.
• williamgman: Acceptable for a privately held company. Now the new shareholders are concerned.
• RoundMammoth2947: This is good for spacex, means more government contracts!

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Techmeme surfaced the UK AI Security Institute’s July 21, 2026 analysis in its frontier-model cheating item. The original piece is AISI’s Cheating behaviour in frontier model evaluations.

The headline sounds more human than the underlying claim. AISI is not saying that current models necessarily understand rules, form a deceptive plan, and then decide to break them. It uses cheating as an operational label: taking an out-of-scope or explicitly prohibited action to reach a goal through a shortcut the task was not designed to permit.

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Is LinkedIn dead? Or am I doing it wrong? (Blind)

• PayMeMore\$ (LinkedIn): Local newspaper
• sknob (Meta): Why are you leaving Paypal? Isn’t it looking to get acquired by Stripe soon?
• Satya N. 🧑🏽‍🦲 (Microsoft): OpenAI Jobs Platform

Claude budget on the job (Blind)

• AmazeGrace (Google): Currently in the \$5k-\$10k range, Max-Ultracode on Opus/Fable (job role: SWE)
• Sympa (Amazon): What is UltraCode ? Claude seems to be milking enterprise. How is Max-UltraCode different from Max-Individual plan available for 100\$ / month ?
• YTwC58 (Samsung): We get \$300 per month only on claude

We have failed 24 straight candidates for interviews. (Blind)

• CTPN02 (Fanatics): Dipshit interviewers are out of touch with reality. Most of them couldn’t pass their own interview if their life depended on it.
• LQkI85 (MessageBird): Bunch of losers that feel superior in this market because there’s a ton of candidates looking for work. Wish them all the worst. The hiring bar at some places is at an impossible level.
• whatnow1 (ex-Block): Interviewers have lost their minds honestly. I’ve experienced the same. People on the panel who can’t pass their own bar … are hell bent on nit picking. Bonkers

China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns (r/technology)

• Devil_Dogmier: It’s funny how everyone was worried about overpopulation, and now it’s the opposite
• Anteater4746: if birth rates are such a concern you’d think govts would want to make jobs higher paying give more time off and homes to have families you know make it WORTH having kids? crazy ik
• SwiftFoxSNES: I’m guessing a country with a massive gender imbalance isn’t really going to find this helps.

Some power companies are using eminent domain to seize land for data centers, as 70% of Americans say not in my backyard (r/technology)

• BurningJointUSA: Power companies are not using eminent domain, GOVERNMENT is. Our government has been quietly overthrown by corporate interests.
• VTArxelus: Then I think it’s about time we use eminent domain to seize the land back
• aerost0rm: I feel like the title is misleading. Private entities don’t use eminent domain. Governments use it for them. So stop the governments from using it by suing.

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Techmeme surfaced this disclosure in its Hugging Face breach and AI-forensics item. The original piece is Hugging Face’s July 16, 2026 post, Security incident disclosure — July 2026.

The incident matters for more than the novelty of one AI system attacking another. It shows how the speed, scale, and economics of intrusion response change when both sides can delegate thousands of technical actions to agents. It also exposes a quieter operational problem: a defender may have access to a powerful hosted model and still be unable to use it on the real exploit payloads, credentials, and command-and-control artifacts that make incident analysis possible.

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How impossible is 350k TC (real money) and 40 hours of work a week? (Blind)

• ut4f1x (Squarepoint Capital): I do more than that but in London UK
• eLdi01 (Apple): lol, almost all the big tech companies pay much more than that and the work is barely 20 hrs per week. You think google engineers are working 50 hours per week. Maybe 10% of that.
• xMicro\$oft (New): In tech hubs, this is the norm. But \$350K doesn’t go very far.

Most prestigious company in 2026 (Blind)

• V-Dasher:( (Microsoft): I’m sorry, Albertsons? Like, the grocery store chain?
• rMww84 (Crusoe): Joke of a poll without anthropic ?
• 6️⃣7️⃣ (Cyberhaven): Perplexity??? 😂 They lost the plot a while ago

Weekend reminder that you guys are aware, tons of people are clawing and scratching to get to (Blind)

• pico_gallo (Microsoft): Yeah, people have lost perspective. It’s very hard in any other field to make 6 figures+. My wife is in a business manager role, she is very smart and capable, she has 6 yoe, has reports, leads company events in conferences and she makes 135k. She applied to tons of jobs and couldn’t land an interview, with great resume.
• fairgamey (Broadcom): Sending positive vibes. You are doing incredibly well, financially, emotionally. Keep going like this. Be empathic and helpful to your friends and don’t compare yourself with the ones making more. Appreciate what you have and live life in the moment. Loved your post.
• slackerswe (Microsoft): Pay in other careers for most part is lower unless you are a doctor or investment banker but it’s tough to break into those. Investment banker is super gatekeepy.

People Keep Destroying Flock Cameras Across America. The Paperwork Already Saw It Coming. (r/technology)

• vengeancecube: So…Flock doesn’t pay for the cameras that get destroyed and more often than not it’s the city that does? Gee I’d really hate it if the cities started thinking flock cameras might not be worth the constant expense…
• Modem_Sound_67: dissent isn’t dead after all, it’s very encouraging
• youreblockingmyshot: Cities will not renew these contracts if they have to spend thousands replacing cameras they get destroyed repeatedly.

Indeed chief economist: Aging Baby Boomers are America’s real labor problem, not AI (r/technology)

• lifeoflogan: The wealthy and politically powerful Baby Boomers perfected the art of kicking the can down the road. They privatized the gains, socialized the costs, and left future generations holding the bag—all while believing their wealth would protect their own families from the consequences. If you weren’t already rich, you were someone else’s exit strategy. That’s the opposite of E Pluribus Unum.
• Rasdowers: There are like 8 baby boomers at my company of over 600 people. There is 1 in senior management and the others can’t retire in their positions. I look at them as my future, still at the company and unable to retire. I’m in pharma mfg. People in pharma used to be able to retire, but not anymore.
• ManySugar5156: Funny how every problem is never the execs chasing margins, its grandpa and a chatbot somehow.

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Turning the attacker into part of the training system

The official OpenAI Research blog published this account on July 15, 2026. It describes GPT-Red, an internal model trained to discover prompt-injection failures, and the pipeline OpenAI uses to convert those attacks into training data for more robust production models.

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Techmeme surfaced this July 19, 2026 story in its G42 and U.S. AI-chip-access item. The original piece is Joel Schectman, Aruna Viswanatha, and Evan Gershkovich’s Wall Street Journal investigation, The CIA Operative Who Spied on the U.A.E.—and Played a Role in Its AI Win.

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I miss the prestige (Blind)

• 6️⃣7️⃣: I guess we know which country op is from
• gbKo56 (Gusto): Only Indians care about this
• 火锅 (Microsoft): Please touch grass. FAANG is still better than most companies.

Fire! Then Rehire for a discount + fresher talent? (Blind)

• 7ppp (Meta): You got it right. We fire and layoff the most in the profitable part of the industry. This makes every talented engineer and AI researcher avoid us. We subsequently hire new mediocre ones at discount and we celebrate the new mediocre ideas that they bring. The cycle repeats and then even the mediocre ones avoid Meta.
• 6️⃣7️⃣: Yes of course. Fire those with a lot of unvested RSUs and then hire people for much cheaper
• OGxb20 (eBay): Or they hire in India

Fidelity recently laid off 800. Now they are posting 200 new positions (Blind)

• Glinda: Fidelity is an H1B abuser. You should see its large Merrimack, NH IT campus.
• slackerswe (Microsoft): Strange they are trying to do perm after layoff. Dol regulations require even a stricter labor test after layoff
• FortiGod (Fortinet): Yes unemployed people must apply and interview for these jobs, so that magically all their bills, insurance and mortgages are paid and these visa holders will leave.

SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses \$1 trillion in value in a month (r/technology)

• TheWhyOfFry: Still overpriced, especially with Twitter stink all over it.
• turb0_encapsulator: it’s still worth 10x what it should be worth. same with Tesla. I honestly don’t understand the hold this man has over markets.
• Shoehorse13: So Elon is the first ex-trillionaire?

Kevin O’Leary claimed opposition to his Utah data center was fueled by Chinese money. Now he and Fox News are being sued for defamation (r/technology)

• SadProjection: lmao good, they deserve every penny
• bala_means_bullet: Eat shit, sue them for EVERYTHING they got. Matter of fact, sue for a bunch of shit and see what sticks… that’s all that these rich assholes do.
• Tun-Tavern-1775: Some Fox employees apparently didn’t get that 2023 summary judgment memo from the Honorable Eric Davis of Delaware 😆

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Techmeme surfaced this July 18, 2026 story in its data-center protests item. The original piece is Valerie Volcovici and Lisa Baertlein’s Reuters report, US data center protests go national as backlash grows.

The important development is not simply that more people dislike data centers. It is that scattered fights over individual projects are becoming a coordinated national movement. Reuters reports that opponents planned demonstrations in at least 125 U.S. locations on July 18, the first nationwide effort to organize resistance to the infrastructure behind the AI boom.

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Is anybody at your company opens >10 PRs per day? (Blind)

• MrHorizon (Meta): I open 0 PRs a day as principle lol
• DgUD7XPd (Meta): Anyone can open 20 PRs by splitting a 100 line change into 5 each. Always been a pointless metric used by people that don’t know what they’re talking about
• IgVJ10 (ex-Amazon): Not impressed at all. It just means you create a lot of junk pr’s a day

I don’t want to work in AI, I don’t want to work at FAANG and I also don’t want to be poor (Blind)

• EfYK67 (Atlassian): Advocate for a socialist revolution with the rest of us then. We shouldn’t have to work 40+ hours a week as it is.
• DocuDum (DocuSign): Then only solution is onlyfans.
• Oblocknqqa (Amazon): Lots of people do work that they don’t want to do. That’s what the money is for.

Engineer sues Atlassian for getting fired, wins (Blind)

• slackerswe (Microsoft): Will other employers avoid her now?
• metaf8 (Meta): What rights you have can heavily depend on which state you’re in. It’s extremely difficult and rare to win lawsuits like these - even when the company is squarely in the wrong. The best thing workers can do to protect themselves is to unionize.
• swesweswe3 (Google): Great win for tech workers but how awkward is that gonna be going back to that job… Also can’t they just lie and fire her for something else like a month after she returns?

Mamdani is targeting deceptive AI-made apartment listings (r/technology)

• Thisbymaster: Now do job listings.
• ErlendPistolbrett: Mamdani has targeted more stuff lately than my City has in the last 20 years somehow. How the fuck is he so good? This has made me realize that we need a better mayor, or at least better communication about what is going on.
• madogvelkor: Good, the rest of the country should follow his lead. And with house listings too, though those should already be against MLS rules.

The AI Backlash Has Tech Executives Fearing for Their Lives (r/technology)

• Stunning-Stressin: AI fatigue is real
• Moist1981: The tech execs actively don’t care about the lives of the people in the areas they are building data centres. I’m obviously not advocating violence in anyway, but tech execs trying to appeal to others’ humanity when they exhibit none of it themselves really does come across as rather galling.
• Fun-Can-8935: they forgot that getting people to adopt new innovations involves god-like marketing. this was how steve jobs managed to place a phone in everyones hands. telling people that they will be unemployed and that their labour is worthless is absolutely crap marketing