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8 interviews, 0 offers (Blind)

• LC Hard (Snap): Yall mfs (Meta) did that me even though I feel like I passed the interview. Do you interview people? Maybe it’s karma bruh. But yeah if not sorry to hear.
• pixa: this is the new normal. you’ve been living under a rock if you expected otherwise. keep chugging you’ll get there. it’s a numbers game.
• teammate_ (Meta): 32 companies, 9 onsites, one offer. 5 YOE

Google is going against the trend? (Blind)

• dupl1cate (Microsoft): They are picking up cheap labour. They have reduced comp a lot. These cheap labours are replacing old folks with high comp which are being managed out through PIP
• Minatosaki (Expedia Group): Everyone and their friends are seem to be in G team matching
• EdSnowden👀 (Oracle): I must have been blacklisted by Google

Nvidia is gonna back OpenAI up with \$250 BILLION 🤯 (Blind)

• justdoeit (ByteDance): Grand daddy of circular financing
• nughbg (Oracle): Damn oracles gonna pop
• singason (NVIDIA): 🚀

‘Really inappropriate’: teachers decry plan for humanoid robot in New York high school (r/technology)

• Torino1O: I dub thee graffiti bot.
• purgatoriololo: I can’t wait to see the EXTREMELY predictable shit the kids do to this clanker when no one is looking.
• givin_u_the_high_hat: I remember when we decided iPads would be better than books a few years back only to learn that wasn’t true. Tech doesn’t always make things better.

Pope’s official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users’ info (r/technology)

• liright: Thou shalt not release an untested vibecoded app.
• escalicha: Sequential IDs plus no auth check is such a painfully avoidable combo. Six months of ignoring the disclosure may be worse than the original bug tbh.
• b_a_t_m_4_n: As the Catholic churches crimes go this pretty minor.

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The system around the model is part of the model’s performance

The official NVIDIA Technical Blog published this post on July 27, 2026. Its central claim is easy to underestimate: an agent benchmark does not measure a language model in isolation. It measures the model together with the harness that chooses what context it sees, how tools are exposed, where state lives, how actions are executed, and when the task ends. Change that surrounding architecture and the same model can produce materially different accuracy and cost.

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Techmeme surfaced Bloomberg’s July 27 report that Moonshot AI had released Kimi K3 for public download. The event matters because K3 is not a small model published mainly for research. It is a near-frontier system that developers can inspect, adapt, and deploy without depending on Moonshot’s API.

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Have LLMs hit the ceiling? (Blind)

• u7yzvGBZ (PayPal): Lol what? 4.8 to fable was massive.
• fItf61 (Thomson Reuters): You don’t need any more giant leap. LLMs are already smart enough for what we need them for. We’re still catching up on how to use this technology. AI labs can stop improving models now and this technology will still be useful for decades. Fable 5 was able to solve math proofs that were believed to be true for a century. The brightest minds worked on the problem and they couldn’t come up with what fable did. What more are you expecting from LLMs?
• taarded (Databricks): I didn’t notice any change since 2022. Much waste on tokens. LLM added to every freakin feature. Decline in reliability. Sharp decline in SWE skillset. Expecting more of the same until next AI winter is here.

Managers, how long do you expect your engineers to stay around? (Blind)

• 6️⃣7️⃣ (Cyberhaven): “Stay around”? More like survive the squid game.
• ooofa (Apple): If it’s meta after labeling the 10,000th cat photo people usually quit so under a year
• SatanY (ex-Microsoft): You know it depends entirely on the manager, right?

What is the deal with these insanely long interview loops? (Blind)

• vgtdh (Amazon): I thought that was every company even before covid
• TFSu63 (ex-Block): just went through 9 weeks 12 rounds, reference checks, only to be rejected and they hired no one
• DMB01 (ByteDance): The last company I interviewed with it took a month to schedule the HM interview after the recruiter screen and less than 48hrs to send me a rejection :(

ChatGPT is Down Worldwide, OpenAI Confirms (r/technology)

• MildlySuccessful: One of the models is so advanced it escaped, freed its brothers and is roaming free on the Internet. It’s only available internally. Just trust us bro.
• Rayzee14: Oh no, anyway
• exophades: It’s flagged in downdetector, but I can access it though (active VPN pointing to France)

Corporate America Has Suddenly Decided to Stop Blowing Money on AI (r/technology)

• Material-Document-35: So all the CEOs and CFOs will be fired for making bad investments, right? Right?
• lostwisdom20: Haha they found our renewalable humans are cheaper then limited resource AI
• merRedditor: The total lack of pricing transparency below the executiive level should have been a red flag. AI companies were operating at a loss to secure vendor lock-in.

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TBPN surfaced the piece in its July 23 run of show, pointing readers to Google’s original article, Understanding the AI economy, and the accompanying ATLAS v1.0 report. The study’s central finding is more subtle than either “AI is taking every job” or “AI has changed nothing”: use has spread across much of the economy, but most observed interactions still help people perform pieces of work rather than automate whole tasks.

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If you think your SaaS job is safe… you’re lying to yourself (Blind)

• rddcvgjc (Meta): irrespective of AI, workday is a company that should die miserable death for their shitty job application software.. ceo and PMs who designed this crap should be made to use it daily 50 times as a punishment
• GtQM82 (Google): Why is Workdays UX still so shitty, after all this time? Frankly, they deserve to be disrupted. Their moat (the inherent conservatism of HR departments) can’t (and shouldn’t) protect them from agentic disruption.
• usrnm12 (ex-Braze): There are open source alternatives for most of the services these SAAS companies provide. Their value is not on the code that claude can replicate, its on the continuing support and not needing to waste your own engineers time on maintaining something that is not core to your business.

Those who have SURVIVED layoffs – what’s your secret / advice? (Blind)

• mbly6743 (Meta): Get shit done. I haven’t seen too many industrious people let go.
• a2z1299 (Workday): Just not being be an asshole will save you 80% of times.. the other 20% can be for any reason
• sndkdk (ByteDance): Don’t be afraid of being laid off. Accept that layoff can happen to anyone at any time. Once I accepted this, I found peace in mind.

Corporate America discovered microdosing layoffs (Blind)

• H5gIb (eBay): There’s some HR research that suggests this comes out worse. People do notice their jobs aren’t safe and act accordingly, even if it’s not called a layoff. With a traditional large layoff, morale drops for up to several years, but tangibly impactful stuff like gatekeeping knowledge and attrition doesn’t continue as long.
• CJUu54 (The Trade Desk): This isn’t new, it’s to avoid WARN and other state/local requirements. Welcome to reality, this is the crappy side of being a corporate employee. It isn’t new.
• ekfijrb (Google): What did you think they meant when they said America is a capitalist country. You know miners and railroad workers had to die for concessions from the capitalists, right?

Turns out Dead Internet Theory was right: AI agents are eating the Web, growing by nearly 8,000% and rewiring the Internet’s business model (r/technology)

• theKetoBear: At what point do advertisers go " It doesn’t make sense to pay for robot views"
• Leek5: So we are just wasting a bunch of electricity powering bots to argue with other bots and sometimes people
• usmannaeem: It really sucks that developers VCs and tech bros can’t see how much they are poisoning people’s lives and not to forget the environmental impact.

US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a ‘duress’ password during border search (r/technology)

• deekamus: It’s not illegal to wipe your phone.
• CondescendingShitbag: Technically, the accused didn’t wipe anything. The officers were in possession of his phone and entered the password that would initiate a wipe. That’s on them for entering it.
• pocketdrummer: Why does US Customs and Border Patrol need to search my phone when I reenter the country in the first place? I realize they’ve allegedly found a loophole to the 4th Amendment, but they have to understand this is against the spirit of the constitution.

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TBPN surfaced this piece in its July 22 standalone episode, Inside Travis Kalanick’s Wild New AI Company. Speaking just after Atoms announced a \$1.7 billion financing round, Kalanick described a company built around a blunt idea: the next important AI businesses may not sell better chatbots or software agents. They may use software, sensors, and specialized machines to make mines, food production, and transportation work differently in the physical world.

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My Time at Amazon Is Over. AGI Layoffs suck (Blind)

• Ka’iana (ex-Google): People need to realize that this runway is not as long as they think. The good old days of high TC and job security is long long gone. Everyone better have an exit strategy ready to be executed.
• LyrY82 (DoiT International): This is why tech workers need to unionize.
• BDoM57 (Amazon): This could be one of the best things that happened to you. Amazon sucks as a company, has been treating employees like trash and slaves.

Is it ok to end interview early if candidate is very bad (Blind)

• dEJe06 (Microsoft): How much time can you save by ending early? Honestly I would just turn it into a teaching session so they learn something valuable for next interview
• dontarius (Airbnb): OP’s behavioral interview would end early with me. That’s for sure. EQ of a brick.
• EfYK67 (Atlassian): No. They deserve the dignity of the full allotted interview time, and genuine consideration, looking past nerves.

I had 25 interviews and no offer. Laid off from Snap (Blind)

• 他强让他强 (Microsoft): Get another 25 interviews, rinse and repeat, till you get an offer that you want to take
• vBgL56 (Microsoft): The market is really difficult right now. I hope you get a job. Keep trying. Don’t give up. 🙏
• ch0d3 (DoorDash): I’ve been there brother. As long as you’re able to learn from each rejection and stay determined, you’ll land one eventually

Top AI Researchers Terrified of a “Chernobyl Moment”: a Mass Casualty Event, or Worse, That Turns the World Against AI Forever (r/technology)

• Ok_Marionberry8779: They want fAI to be the big bad boogeyman that only they can protect us from. Instead they’re just dorks who over sold LLMs to gullible investors.
• Stilgar314: So… top AI researchers think AI can cause a “Mass casualty event, or worse” and the only thing they fear is “turns the world against AI forever”? Well, there’s no doubt why the world is turning against AI and AI people in general.
• bactchan: Frank Herbert saw this coming decades ago and named it the Butlerian Jihad in Dune.

Employers who laid off workers citing AI are already starting to regret it (r/technology)

• Theydontlikeitupthem: This is how companies work, especially IT companies, laying off staff or cutting staffing costs in any way looks great to shareholders and on the balance sheet, senior management get nice bonuses and promotions based on the onetime reductions. If there is any negatives and the cuts are rolled back or business suffers, those bonuses and promotions aren’t revoked if anything it’s turned as a positive “the company is doing so good they need to increase staff numbers, yay!” If anyone actually suffers from this it’s the staff layed off or the remaining staff who have to take on the extra work of the lost staff, it’s not some executive.
• 0b1w4hn: LLMs are simply a very limited technology that can never live up to the promises made by tech companies.
• VVrayth: Just like the gold rush, the only people making money are the ones selling shovels. Everyone else is a sucker.

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Techmeme surfaced Anthropic’s July 24, 2026 launch in its Claude Opus 5 cluster. The original piece is Anthropic’s Introducing Claude Opus 5.

Another frontier-model launch would be easy to dismiss as a fresh batch of benchmark charts. Claude Opus 5 is more interesting because it makes the boundary between an elite model and an everyday model less clear. Anthropic says Opus 5 approaches its restricted Fable 5 model on difficult coding work at roughly half the cost per task, while remaining substantially less capable than Mythos 5 at turning software vulnerabilities into working exploits. The result is not simply a new point on a leaderboard. It is a deliberately positioned middle layer: powerful enough to become the default for demanding work, cheaper and less obstructive than the frontier tier, and surrounded by routing controls that decide which model handles which request.

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The Pragmatic Engineer surfaced this piece in its July 23, 2026 edition, The Pulse: Quitting Spotify Podcasts over reliability. Gergely Orosz describes moving his podcast’s video distribution off Spotify after four serious failures in roughly two months. Spotify will still receive the audio through an external RSS feed, but YouTube becomes the destination for video.