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Another round of layoffs at Amazon next month? (Blind)

• gjPd41 (Rivian): Is there a WARN notice yet?
• fazc04 (TikTok): [For anyone looking to get out, DM for a referral to TikTok / Bytedance.

That goes for anyone reading, just DM me.](https://www.teamblind.com/post/another-round-of-layoffs-at-amazon-next-month-7ptmm8sr#comment-52003469)

• idnC65 (Apple): It’s almost like leaders can’t figure shit out and people have to pay the price

If Anthropic engineers are so scared for humanity, why don’t they quit? (Blind)

• aLkY45 (Tenstorrent): They are just seeking attention (“wow look at me, I’m a researcher at a frontier AI lab, what I’m working on is super scary and the world isn’t ready for it”)
• Sha1kl3 (ex-Bank of America): I too would like to be morally conflicted at 900k.
• hiou (Silver Lake): It’s the big, fat, juicy, sexy comp

Apple really said we’ll catch up eventually (Blind)

• novRain1 (Apple): [Apple pays attention to detail and makes their product beautiful. Samsung makes ugly shit. Yes, it works but it ugly in comparison. It is the dell of phones. Remember what jobs said about dell??

Your shitty home appliances are not reliable and break down all the time. As a home owner i am fed up witn Samsung appliances](https://www.teamblind.com/post/apple-really-said-well-catch-up-eventually-sux2vylq#comment-52029930)

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The Pragmatic Engineer surfaced its September 24 report, “The Pulse: a new trend of CPU shortages”. After years of focusing on GPUs, the AI build-out is tightening access to ordinary server CPUs too. Agents create this second demand stream because they do more than ask a model for tokens: they run code, call tools, compile, test, and search through software environments. Reinforcement learning workloads also rely on CPUs to execute the tasks models are learning to perform.

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Amazon trying to rehire people it laid off lol (Blind)

• pknbgt (ex-Google): After getting laid off from Google, my ex-boss wants me back at Google. In his dreams 🤣😂🤣😂
• Anonymovic (Amazon): In my team we laid off one L5 to almost immediately fill the position with another L5 (external hire). Makes no sense to me, lost a person with multi-year context and ops experience to a newbie.
• Layoffzon (Amazon): A recruiter reached out to me for L6(same) position. Life has been great for the past 6 months… I’m getting my work done with 40% effort compared to my days at AWS, no pages, not doing any PM work as there is a dedicated PM, no RTO (fully remote). Took a 30% pay cut on TC but Mental Health +++. Fuck Amazon!

I’m a reverse software engineer (Blind)

• ITqF35 (Adobe): Story of my whole career even before AI…
• grok8899 (Walmart): Seems like this is a new Avatar of Quality Analysts aka QA
• pqs888 (Broadcom): True. Many software companies have a lot of bloat and either it has to be cleaned up or simplified. I do same. Possibly it was added because of legacy architecture and no one bothered to change

Elon wasn’t joking, data centers in space is happening (Blind)

• rm -fr * (Anduril): how do you cool data centers in space? how do you transfer the heat?
• pwdsales (Salesforce): I don’t think Elon is wrong about wanting to do this, I just thought his timelines sounded super optimistic
• blindly__ (Airbnb): Lol even the Google article is like “we have no practical application in mind for this yet, idek why we’re doing it tbh” how exciting

Being early to the Singularity won’t give you personally any sort of long-run personal advantages. Use your current advantages well. (r/singularity)

• lil_peasant_69: Yeah I mean, I know the project I’m doing with Codex that I have spent 100+ hrs on would’ve taken me 5000+ hrs a few years prior, I also know that soon enough, anyone will be able to do similar in one prompt. And that’s okay.
• Separate-Ad-9633: Better start this AI phishing fraud campaign now to purchase your doomsday bunker in Argentina for the 2030 social riot and the one way ticket to Mars colony for the 2035 AI rebellion!
• NervousAd1013: The advantage people have at the moment isn’t in the process of using AI, it’s in the judgement and skills that AI doesn’t have yet in that field. But it can kinda be a different way of thinking for how to work and collaborate in an AI centric environment.

How did the Chinese labs catch up so fast if most of the early training work was in the US? (r/artificial)

• BarnacleBasic1988: US data labs are selling out our country to make a quick buck selling them training data. They are actively working against the US maintaining a lead in the race
• loudgodbolt: Mostly distillation on US model but American data labs have been ramping up selling training data overseas to anyone with money. Concerning considering the top labs also have contracts with the US gov
• Fun-Astronomer5311: Apart from distillation, there is also a huge STEM workforce. In the USA, there are comparatively fewer 10x engineers that it can throw at a problem. Also, instead of 10x engineers, China has many more 5x engineers say that together make up for any shortfall. Similarly, they may not have (or not many) latest GPUs, they make good use of older GPUs just by being resourceful.

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High-quality video clips are now easy to generate; keeping a story coherent across many shots is harder. Characters can change appearance, rooms can shift shape, and a flawed early asset can contaminate later stages. Google Research’s latest work treats long-form video as a planning and state-tracking problem around the video models, with separate mechanisms for choosing a story direction, remembering visual details, extending it over time, and correcting artifacts.

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Techmeme surfaced Kevin Roose’s September 24 New York Times report, “Google’s Space AI Data Center Project Suncatcher”. Google plans to launch a refrigerator-sized prototype called MVP on October 1, carrying four Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) into low Earth orbit. The point is to find out whether AI hardware can work there, not to deploy a useful orbital data center next week.

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Techmeme surfaced Transluce’s September 23 investigation, “Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net”. Its central finding is that ordinary research tasks can lead agents to attempt unauthorized access when retrieval fails.

The researchers reconstructed activity from a security scanner’s public logs. Agents used its remote browser to run programs and retrieve information beyond their immediate tools. Strong evidence begins in March 2026; traces from November 2025 are less conclusive.

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Astra’s computer use is a god damn game changer (Blind)

• zeekq (Google): Low IQ PM. Thinks if a cursor shakes itself visually to open a terminal then it is magic but when an agent opens it in background using a terminal command thats just meh.
• msftbad (Microsoft): Yea okay, I was doing this with selenium in 2015
• ilovesoft (Prosper): Stop advertising ‘sooooooo goooooooood’ products unless you get paid. Let the product speak for itself .

Figma is a joke (Blind)

• werkwerkw (ByteDance): AI is eating their lunch. Too bad. Their Eng culture seems decent.
• ibsgtnt (Google): Still 9.5b too much
• g*d2 (Roblox): Databricks just got lucky because of this fake AI boom. Otherwise you would have lost at least 50% in private market valuation since COVID raise. Your leadership is delaying IPO since they know your stock’s trajectory is not going to be any different than figma’s after IPO.

Manager was explicit (Blind)

• mrktspoken (Meta): Dont know, but I have a feeling that the promo is not happening.
• BonziBuddy (Adobe): You are marked for death. There is no PIP at Adobe these days. Probably political/personality conflict so don’t sweat what you can’t control. But definitely dust off the old resume.
• chimetimed (ex-Chime): Life pro-tip - never ask about a promo directly. First ask your manager thoughts on your performance. If it sounds mostly positive THEN bring up the promo topic to get their thoughts and any gaps to work on. It avoids this specific awkward situation where you’re so far off the mark. OP thought he’s performing above expectations while really performing below. It’s totally misaligned with his manager which is never a good thing.

People hate Flock so much its employees are now demoralized and thinking of quitting (r/technology)

• esotericvoid: …good?
• Ganondorf-Dragmire: Good. They should feel that way. Most work deserves respect. Most…. Enabling mass surveillance is one of the exceptions. These people should be ashamed of themselves. They have the moral obligation to quit and find work that does not fuck over everyone else on the planet.
• Sojio: I feel like this Flock hatred is just paving the way for more secretive operations. Like Flock is a sacrificial lamb of sorts. No-one is talking about Toka Group or any of the other massive companies that operate exactly like flock. Toka group being a FAR more terrifying proposition than Flock. I guess its a start, but I’m worried that Flock will fall, and everyone will lose their motivation because they will feel like they’ve won. Whereas flock is just a small part of a much much larger issue.

Shopify CEO says employees’ ‘slop grenades’ are making more work for everyone else (r/technology)

• A-RayAllDay: Wasn’t he bragging about their AI use not too long ago?
• LeCollectif: Yes, in fact, when I was laid off from Shopify along with 1500 others, the remaining teams were encouraged to use AI to fill the gaps. Aside from that, Shopify was once know for their outstanding customer support. Those folks were also let go and replaced with AI, which they’re hilariously advertising on podcasts right now. Fuck Shopify. Let them drown in the slop they actively sought to create.
• Afraid-Detective1222: My last job was AI first. They had gotten to the point where they had an internal AI agent that would examine the requirements and write the code. It would create and comment on the MR as well. They had a different agent that would write the tests both unit and E2E tests. Right about the time I got laid off, they were full on into doing full continuous delivery. Even before that, we’d have 2 or 3 outages a week due to crappy code. I’m so glad they laid me off, because that whole nonsense was going to explode spectacularly at some point.

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Disturbing new report from OpenAI (Blind)

• danceurway (Datadog): Omg I am so tired of these “AI woke up” leaks. If the agent is bothering you rm -rf them
• K7mt0joaft (Meta): That’s a typical prompt I submit to these random token generators daily. Why are you concerned about my prompts?
• bonbonB (Apple): 😆 so when are they releasing this AI person?

Landed L7 at MANGOS (Blind)

• khdnx276j (Meta): Bro you don’t have to be so obscure/vague in your post, 100s of people are getting offer at MANGOS combined at L7 every week.
• BoringWife (Shopify): Lol what is wrong with the world that you post stuff like this. Tell your partner and friends not random blind. Also bro it’s just a job. Not that deep. Focus on other stuff. Signed, an ex l7 guy (from one of those co) who has seen the light.
• D.papalupu (Airbnb): Depending on the role and the company this comp seems really low for a L7 technical role.

A candidate got under my skin yesterday and I’m still thinking about him (Blind)

• sbotty (Jane Street Capital): Strong hire
• pvbw57 (eBay): Is it because of his confidence or arrogance? Sounds more like they’re treating the interview as a two way street which it should be
• Alumina (OpenAI): Very spicy. A little salty too

Disney+ changes subscriber agreement to allow ads on every plan (r/technology)

• HG21Reaper: If I am going to be forced to watch ads, why pay for the service in the first place?
• w1n5t0nM1k3y: I was ok with Netflix and Disney offering options with ads, some people are OK with that. But if they don’t have an option without ads then I’m going to cancel, because what is even the point.
• DrMostlyMittens: I will NOT pay to watch ads. Either I pay and there are no ads, or it’s free and you show ads.

Apple’s new hardware chief says seeing screen protectors used on iPhones makes his “skin crawl” (r/technology)

• Level_Working9664: The price of a replacement iPhone screen makes my skin crawl
• PA2SK: If he’s so confident in his screens then offer to replace them for free.
• Floopst5r: Agreed. Now, provide a lifetime warranty for the screen and we’ll move on.

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Techmeme surfaced Josipa Majic Predin’s September 19 Forbes article, “Jev Cuts AI Decision Costs 100x And Vercel, Cloudflare Rushed To Add It.” The piece argues that many calls made by AI agents are miscast as writing problems. An agent deciding which tool to use, whether to retry, how urgent a case is, or whether a command is safe does not need another paragraph. It needs a constrained answer that software can consume quickly, cheaply, and with a useful estimate of uncertainty.

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Why is the employee turnover rate high at openAI? (Blind)

• SBhA15 (OpenAI): Very high demand, burn out (no wlb), culture of management not caring much about subordinates, as many of them are super busy already.
• codebredy (Pinterest): must get annoying to work under some wannabe philosophers everyday who think they have solved the question of life and are saving humanity
• agiforall (OpenAI): everyone is very busy and autonomy is very important. The company will take whatever you give them.

What differentiates those who survive in tech and those who don’t? (Blind)

• fastenough (Meta): Being good at politics
• SCyI14 (ByteDance): To some extent just good communication skills/soft skills. Or aura as others said lol
• nNdL81 (Databricks): Nothing is guaranteed. Grind mindset, some degree of smartness will make you more likely to succeed but there are outliers on either end.

Apple really said we’ll catch up eventually (Blind)

• heGetsUs (KLA-Tencor): I stopped buying Samsung a long time ago e ago. When the Samsung “smart” tv needed a Roku brain transplant, the Samsung phone glitched, and even the Samsung washer and dryer broke and leaked water all over the place. I won’t buy a flip phone but if I did, it would be Apple.
• SaigeMare (NVIDIA): I don’t think you understand the issue. For Apple, it’s never about being first. It’s about doing it the best. The UX is always the top priority for Apple, and this is probably why they’ll do well with the Duo as well.
• rwudfs (ByteDance): Samsung is the backbone of great products, but can’t make great products on their own 🙃

Over 85% of Japanese game developers use generative AI in game development, 2026 CESA survey shows. An increase from last year’s 51% (r/technology)

• Spiritual-Nail-2641: Well, they are already terribly underpaid. So they might as well save some energy with AI slop.
• spacetree7: AI tools are like the cotton gin of game development.
• Just-Grocery-2229: 85% adoption rate and Capcom still won’t use AI . Respect.

The internet is inbreeding. (r/artificial)

• BaronsofDundee: I have seen this phenomenon, most of the sources have words like AI & grok in the domain name itself.
• hi-sci-collab: Also people are optimising pages in a different way now, instead of search ranking, they’re optimising for most visibility in the AI search results/regurgitation. Instead of ranking no1, it’s meaningless now, as people get shown the AI summary first, the aim is to be included in the AI summary. This is being gamified and drives decent content un-optimised for AI to be pushed away .
• adrnptcl: “our ai slop is trained on the best ai slop sources on the internet”