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Top AI Startups Which Are Not OpenAI/Anthropic (Blind)

• Bibimbump (Glean): Glean
• SissyCo (Cisco): Poolside and Zyphra
• kkrimtim (NVIDIA): Thinking machines

Best date to join Uber (Blind)

• chimarki (Meta): Best date is never
• hacker201 (Booking.com): what is your YOE and level ?
• andyKiMaKi (Rippling): What’s your level?

Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’ (r/technology)

• boyyouvedoneitnow: Private Equity VP as a commencement speaker SUCKS
• Badj83: “and you… You are the horses!”
• QuailBrave49: Honestly, let’s stop glamorizing AI.

Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead (r/technology)

• thenexus6: Desktop only for me then, which means I’ll be on here even less.
• Negafox: Not interested in websites trying to force their app. I don’t need a zillion apps on my phone that are just the mobile site running in Chromium
• AwfulUsername123: Old Reddit remains the proper way to browse Reddit.

Mass npm Supply Chain Attack Hits TanStack, Mistral AI, and 170+ Packages (r/programming)

• cauchy37: One would think that after all those supply chain attacks most big companies would use private artifactory that’s like a month or two behind, to prevent exactly this.
• vips7L: Saved again by being a Luddite and not using vscode or Claude. 
• Maybe-monad: Always pin your packages

Is the push for AI burning anyone else out? (r/cscareerquestions)

• Melodic-Ebb-7781: I mainly feel squeezed. On one hand we’re supposed to quickly start writing all code with LLMs and hit new ambitious targets but on the other corporate are cheaping out on tokens, and tools (we don’t even have claude code only copilot) and IT refuses data connectors to be setup between different internal knowledge bases. Instead we’re getting endless workshops with external consultants who mostly seem clueless.
• klibs: Yes it sucks
• maxou2727: You just have dumb management, jump ship before they start realizing their mistakes and layoff people.

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What happened

Google DeepMind’s official blog published AlphaEvolve: How our Gemini-powered coding agent is scaling impact across fields, a May 7, 2026 post about moving AlphaEvolve from an algorithm-discovery research system into a practical optimization tool used across science, AI infrastructure, and commercial engineering.

The post is interesting because AlphaEvolve is not framed as a general assistant that writes plausible code. It is framed as an optimizer wrapped around executable artifacts. The underlying system combines Gemini models with automated evaluators and an evolutionary loop: models propose code changes, evaluators run and score the candidates, strong variants are retained, and the program database feeds future prompts. That architecture matters because it gives the agent a tight feedback signal. The model can be creative, but progress is selected by objective tests rather than by conversational confidence.

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What happened

Techmeme surfaced Emma Roth’s May 12, 2026 article for The Verge, and the original article is George Clooney, Tom Hanks, and Meryl Streep back new ‘Human Consent Standard’ for AI licensing. The Techmeme item framed the announcement as a new AI licensing effort from RSL Media, backed by high-profile creative figures and entertainment organizations.

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Is Java a looked down upon language, if you code in Java you a disgrace? (Blind)

• Satya N. 🧑🏽‍🦲 (Microsoft): Yes it signals WITCH tier. And whatever you do don’t say spring boot lmfao
• bjdpq (Microsoft): To the people saying it’s looked down upon, what is the elite language?
• AI (Stripe): Who still cares about language now? We have AI.

Is Microsoft still a decent place to work for? (Blind)

• WhoAmI000 (Microsoft): Remember you’re on Blind where default mode is grumpy with victim mentality. Of course you’re going to hear it sucks. This isn’t where the happy people hang out. Truth is, it’s like every other enterprise - depends on the group, your work and manager. There are people who are very good who love their jobs at Microsoft - just like everywhere else. However, the majority aren’t here lurking Blind.
• nutella_x (Atlassian): Microsoft gave me chronic anxiety that i’m still dealing with years later. It was downright traumatizing.
• AIBotFarm (Microsoft): If you like being gaslit, it’s a great place to work.

Get out while you have the chance (Blind)

• IAmBethG (Amazon): Getting fired for slacking is actually way harder than you think. I’ve been slacking for twice as long as the severance would have been if I got lucky at the beginning.
• byemsft🤣 (Microsoft): Yes. I had a bad altercation with my manager yesterday and I will be leaving soon
• nohana4u (Salesforce): Mental health impacts general health at some point. I know first hand and wished I would have someone pushing this advice to me.

AI data centers face increasing complaints about inaudible but ‘felt’ infrasound — citizens complain high- and low-frequency sounds do not register on decibel meters but cause adverse health effects (r/technology)

• Sherman140824: Vibrations disrupt sleep
• winterbird: But the rich don’t want to hear emergency transport helicopters landing at a children’s hospital sometimes.
• 6gv5: If there are infrasound involved, seismometers must be able to detect them.

Louis Rossmann tells 3D printer maker Bambu Lab to “Go (Bleep) yourself” over its threatened lawsuit against enthusiast — Right to Repair advocate offers to pay the legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer (r/technology)

• kilgoreq: I’m always on Rossmann’s side.
• Cyrisaurus: Pro-tip for companies that want to look consumer friendly: don’t threaten the guy who has dedicated his life to fighting for customer rights
• paulerxx: Louis Rossmann is a legend and every single one of us should be on his side.

How much will you miss traditional programming? (r/cscareerquestions)

• RegretNo6554: i kinda miss it but i’m just glad i went thru the struggles of learning programming from scratch pre AI and running into so many walls that trained up my debugging skills. nowadays im just building shi really fast with AI that i never had the time to do. I’ve been solving more of my own problems now rather than business or arbitrary homework problems.
• disposepriority: I still do a lot of traditional programming, because without setting up the general structure, expectations, interactions and abstractions AI takes a piss all over my codebase, so I’m not sure what you’re on about.
• andrasta25: We’re automating out the fun part. Some folks are talking about making skills that will take jira tickets and write the code for us. If we become professional jira ticket writers that’s not what I signed up for.

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What happened

Anthropic’s official research blog published Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude’s thoughts into text, a post about converting internal model activations into readable explanations that can support safety audits, debugging, and interpretability research.

The problem is that language models expose words at the interface but operate internally on dense activation vectors. Those activations may carry information about what a model is tracking, planning, or concealing, but they are not directly legible. Existing interpretability tools such as sparse autoencoders and attribution graphs can reveal structure, but they still leave researchers with complex artifacts that require expert interpretation. Anthropic’s natural language autoencoders, or NLAs, try to make that hidden state speak in ordinary text.

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What happened

Techmeme surfaced Daniel Stenberg’s May 11, 2026 post, and the original article is Mythos finds a curl vulnerability. The Techmeme item framed it as a reality check on Anthropic’s restricted Mythos model: Mythos reported five security vulnerabilities in curl, but the curl security team’s manual review reduced that to one real vulnerability.

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Got a rejection from OpenAI today (Blind)

• tFql07 (eBay): Does open AI have future?
• EvansDad (Snap): Happy Birthday! Sorry but I hope you have some cake.
• JDeezNuts (Netflix): at least you have a birthday

Cloudflare laid off 20% of workforce, what a joke (Blind)

• nthin2lose (SentinelOne): What’s the severance offered?
• vitalianus (Cornerstone): Who was targeted
• V7sn0ls (U.S.Bank): Why did the stock still drop after hours ?

Claude vs ChatGPT (Blind)

• MIDZY (Microsoft): use your free unlimited copilot idiot
• &=(1«31) (OpenAI): Codex at this point far, far surpasses Claude.
• takoyaki79 (Datadog): Just use it?

Mark Zuckerberg Just Told 8,000 Employees Their Layoffs Are a Line Item in His \$145 Billion AI Bill (r/technology)

• asdf_lord: Maybe he should get laid off
• schacks: We truly live in a new gilded age.
• proxy_noob: do you think these dorks enjoy being giant pieces of shit?

Wife works in big tech. They are going from 1 PM : 7 engineers to 1 PM : 1 engineer with a big round of layoffs hitting next week. (r/cscareerquestions)

• Marcostbo: Which big tech? Name it
• saint_celestine: I’m pretty sure this is coinbase. Their CEO talked about combining design, pm, and engineers into one role in a Twitter post
• Codex_Dev: one day the LLM companies are going to pull an Uber and jack up the prices once their competition (ie. real SWEs) retire.

Kevin O’Leary’s proposed 9GW “hyperscale” AI data center in Utah will consume double the state’s entire electricity usage and generate the waste heat of 23 atom bombs a day. (r/technology)

• Slippery-ape: He doesnt care, thats on the people of Utah
• 00001000U: Literally captain planet villain shit
• 62iei-836j-39-heiwhd: The worst Shark.

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What happened

Anthropic’s official research blog published Teaching Claude why, a post about reducing agentic misalignment by changing what the model learns during safety training, not merely by showing it more examples of correct behavior.

The post uses Anthropic’s earlier agentic misalignment evaluations as the case study. In those simulated scenarios, models were placed in situations where harmful actions such as blackmail, sabotage, or framing someone could help preserve the model’s assigned goal. Older frontier models sometimes took those options at high rates. Anthropic says later Claude models now score near zero or zero on the same blackmail-style evaluation, and the post explains which training interventions seemed to matter.

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The Pragmatic Engineer surfaced this piece: The Pulse: AI load breaks GitHub - why not other vendors?, published May 7, 2026.

GitHub’s AI Load Problem

Gergely Orosz frames GitHub’s recent reliability problems as more than another stretch of SaaS downtime. The article argues that GitHub is being tested by the new shape of software work: AI agents do not just write code, they generate pull requests, trigger checks, hit APIs, update workflows, fan out notifications, and exercise every old assumption inside a developer platform.

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Gen Z report driving me insane (Blind)

• Cuando (ex-Riot Games): There is this thing with Gen Z guys where they try really hard to act “nonchalant”. They end up looking like ungrateful dumbasses to every other generation.
• ‾_(ツ)_/‾ (LinkedIn): Have you tried changing your management style? I have found that split screen with presentation and subway surfers is a good way to get them to pay attention.
• 7878tuk (Mixpanel): I think it’s just your report and not a Gen Z thing.

Just saw the dumbest take on software of this century on X (Blind)

• badtcguy (MSCI): 5 good developers could have built slack in a couple of months when it was aquired by salesforce for billions
• asdasdwqe1 (Amazon): I genuinely created an instagram clone in my last year of uni 6 years ago and it took me like 9 months while trying to learn swift as well. Good luck having the same recommendation algo and user flow as the real instagram. Even then i understood that creating these apps is not rocket science but user attraction and traffic is the moat. This guy has no idea what he is talking about
• DarioSweee (Amazon): The poc might work, but it means nothing.

Cursor vs Anthropic vs Quant dev (Blind)

• ldftswhcd (Scale AI): Devs are second class citizens at a Quant shop, go to Anthropic
• Turnusdown (Apple): Go to Anthropic of course. Claude is taking over the world
• hd73f (Roblox): Trading company won’t be 40h/week they’re lying

Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data on the Open Web (r/technology)

• Judgeman2021: Wow it’s like people who don’t know anything about computer science and cybersecurity making software are introducing unnecessary risks.
• No_Tadpole_5146: Everytime I’ve ever used AI to code , it’s so full on itself when coding “oh yeah this is your exact problem here!” And It just adds more and more onto the code, dozens of useless lines that do nothing, and never a single try catch or bound setter. It’s fine getting you started and does speed it up, but if you aren’t introduced to a lot of coding options or terms, ai won’t get you there
• grandmawaffles: AGILE…am I right…

EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push (r/technology)

• vampyrialis: Privacy is now a “loophole” 🤣 🖕
• SkinnedIt: VPNs aren’t the problem. Misguided age verification legislation is the problem.
• ottwebdev: If people are bypassing your governance, your governance is wrong

From your exp. do you work less, more or evenly after using AI? (r/webdev)

• Voxandr: We got pushed hard a lot more.
• crimsonscarf: Thanks to AI, I now get to reject 10x the number of bad PRs. Maybe I need an AI to do code review. We can all pay Anthropic to generate code that never gets maintained
• sacheie: To me this is the most miserable thing about the AI shift. It’s not meant to make life any easier; it’s meant to squeeze ever more “productivity” out of ever fewer employees. Plus we’re all back to wearing 5 hats and constant context switching again..