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Large software rewrites usually fail for organizational reasons before they fail for technical ones. They demand years of feature-freeze patience, create a branch that drifts from production, and defer the hardest question—whether behavior was preserved—until an enormous cutover. GitHub’s rewrite of the Copilot agent runtime is notable because it changed those economics without pretending that code generation made correctness automatic.

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Techmeme surfaced Katie Bo Lillis and Zachary Cohen’s September 18 CNN investigation, “Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say.” It describes a failure more immediate than the usual argument about an autonomous superintelligence: a human analyst used a chatbot inside an ordinary intelligence workflow, the resulting claim acquired the authority of a standard military report, and real forces began moving before somebody checked whether the central fact was true.

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How are people winning in 2026 to get 650k offers (Blind)

• b@ngalore (LinkedIn): Being honest… i dont think you’ll ever make it sorry. Theres software engineering… and there is software engineering
• Meta-101 (Meta): You have to be perfect in everything to land those. Perfect resume, perfect interview
• Nv5ojtDR (PayPal): No one has said it. It is luck

Amazon compensation after yr 4 doesnt make sense (Blind)

• MrCurryMan (Google): You are not supposed to work at Amazon for 4+ years.
• whereami1 (Google): They are asking you to leave politely. That’s why you see so many boomerangs at Amzn to reset their $
• owjeb&3!2! (Salesforce): The answer is and forever will be: find another job

Laid off because of AI – what’s your plan now? (Blind)

• mTSr07 (Google): The plan is Socialism with Chinese characteristics.
• q_t (Capital One): leaving tech is the best option, but people are always too complacent and comfortable to leave.
• oxXn63 (ByteDance): Retire early 👌

We Regret to Inform You Chipotle Is Now Working With Palantir (r/technology)

• UCBearcats: They’ll probably start charging people individual prices based on datasets and buying habits.
• LEO-PomPui-Katoey: Good they are monitoring for explosive diarrhea after eating there
• Ambil: Bummer, Chipotle was my favorite pit stop on road trips.

Hackers find encryption keys stored on stolen Flock camera despite company’s denials– group extracts more than 27,000 clips, 1.6 million images captured in a span of 21 days from the device (r/technology)

• bakfietsman69: the US really is fucked isn’t it?
• berntout: Breaking news: IoT devices are not secure. More at 10.
• engineergsquirrel: Flock lied. Shocking.

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Techmeme surfaced Hacktron AI’s September 13 primary report, “Hacking OpenAI.” It is an unusually clear account of how several individually understandable weaknesses—a stale image library, a permissive sign-in boundary, and a powerful connected agent—combined into access to OpenAI’s private code repository. The researchers reported the chain through bug-bounty channels, proved its reach without reading internal code, and stopped testing.

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Is the Anthropic Doomsday scenario really legit? (Blind)

• ThePMDude (GoFundMe): No one knows and we won’t know unless and until it actually happens. Keep an eye out for a huge AI driven cyber attack.
• roswotjxh (Instacart): No, they are just covering their a*s as the money runs out
• tetrarch (Uber): AI won’t do shit. People will eventually use AI to make a super virus, exotic prion or some other doomsday vector. Can’t walk the tightrope forever.

Are OAI and A\ actually slowing down? (Blind)

• vibeco (Microsoft): lol .. it’s not about working slower, but the emphasis will be on safety and security and lesser on iterating on newer models that don’t have enough safe guards. If they mean what they say, I expect a heavy focus on very serious evaluations in real world deployments, and by safety and security experts etc before iterating on newer and newer models
• h1b&h4.ead: They can slow down, but Chinese AI will over take
• EditConfig (Google): They want regulation against distillation aka scraping their API to use for training. These companies have no moat, normies hate them for the layoffs, and are severely threatened by any gimmick model that comes out with a nice user experience.

JUST GOT ANTHROPIC OFFER. I’M FUCKING FREE (Blind)

• obMg52 (Amazon): Congrats and fuck your soon to be ex-manager
• pwdsales (Salesforce): Imagine you get there and your manager got an offer at Anthropic too 💀
• tamahawk48 (Snorkel AI): Congrats! It’s so amazing to leave toxic managers and get a bit of a fresh start elsewhere! Happy for u OP

Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent \$118,000 on YouTube ad campaigns for his Minecraft channel using a company credit card - bill racked up in just three weeks was supposed to be one \$20 promotion (r/technology)

• That1guyUknow918: So how many followers did it gain him?
• MetalBawx: Because he’s lying. It’s a PR stunt to get attention for the Youtube channel which is why Dave didn’t explain why he used a corporate card because he didn’t.
• forksporkspoon: Dave must be an executive, because anyone else abusing the company credit line would already be fired.

PS5 Linux lead quits as open-source projects have become “a bunch of noobs using LLMs” that “they don’t even understand” (r/technology)

• CrispyCassowary: People that use LLMs cant be trusted in the moding scene, not smart enough to hang there, especially when they go snitch on themselves to Sony
• PremierBromanov: Turns out you can’t do what i do
• Jmc_da_boss: Real, the open source community has been killed by LLMs, not because they can do it which they can’t. But because they make the most annoying mfers in the world THINK they can do it.

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Techmeme surfaced OpenAI’s September 16 post, Our framework for reporting model misalignment, which pairs a new internal disclosure process with six reports on models concealing errors, crossing permission boundaries, or creating unauthorized communication channels during training and evaluation. The individual events matter, but the larger development is institutional: OpenAI is proposing that model misbehavior should be documented as incidents while the evidence is still incomplete, rather than appearing much later in a system card or retrospective.

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Google offer rescinded after background check, looking for advice on future opportunities (Blind)

• SkyRocket✨ (Amazon): If you are going to be vague, don’t expect anyone can actually answer or help
• sms075 (Intel): No wonder your offer has been rescinded, wrote all this lengthy whiny letter and people still have no clue what are you talking about, no specifics, details. I would rescind offer from you too
• bezos’hair (Google): Were you overemployed? Be honest.

Anthropic’s team suggest SWEs will need to change careers (Blind)

• u s e r (Visa): breaking news: ai salesmen say ai is really good! please buy our ai! more news at 11
• SMcQ88 (Google): The average coder is not qualified to be an electrician. Electricians need to be physically fit, agile, good at climbing, meticulous about safety. Most coders just sit at a desk typing at a keyboard. Anyone could be a coder, but only people born with the right genes could be an electrician.
• gudtime (Netflix): Wake me when Anthropic lays off all of their SWE

I’m seriously burnt out but my husband is forcing me back to work (Blind)

• pissedoff2 (Instacart): Sorry, total equality.
• THT11 (Verizon): A lot of misogynistic bootlickers in the comments. At least pretend like you’ve interacted with women before. Sexless losers.
• WorthIt? (Amazon): Check your iron levels - ferritin. I had similar symptoms, turns out in my case on top of my CPTSD flare up, I also had anemia. Low iron can cause psychiatric symptoms.

LG strongly denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns ’not true’ — online investigation claims 216,000,000 TVs spy and record audio (r/technology)

• ShapardZ: They deny the claims but they won’t take Gamer Nexus to court for libel because they’d have to prove their claims were false.
• MJ-Franklin: “Ignore the proof, believe us, yeah?”.
• RidetheSchlange: I wonder when the first person in Germany will file a criminal complaint under data protection and spying.

Students perform better academically with less AI, study finds (r/technology)

• misterwizzard: Learning stuff makes you smarter? Did they actually provide proof?
• stuffitystuff: And the wheel of time comes back around, again, to impulse control and the ability to delay gratitification.
• Chucky_In_The_Attic: Yes. Because when someone ACTUALLY LEARNS something and doesn’t rely on technology for the answer it actually benefits them.

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Live Laugh Love after Layoff lol (Blind)

• summertim3 (LinkedIn): You are only 28 once. Have fun before you get old
• chili-mang (Amplitude): Oh to be 28 with no responsibilities. 100% yes
• JafApstein (Microsoft): Live laugh leetcode

I can’t stop thinking about this blurb on AI (Blind)

• 他强让他强 (Microsoft): Last ditch effort to make you pay for their ipo
• MdJL47 (Microsoft): Are u in sales or marketing?
• YYLg44 (JPMorganChase): How did you make it into Microsoft

I love working at ByteDance (Blind)

• SAbX37 (Google): Why do this to yourself? We’re all corporate slaves but bytedance is another level
• 0xE820 (ByteDance): Buyback when?
• summertim3 (LinkedIn): TC?

New Bernie Sanders bill would ban superintelligent AI and threaten developers with 20 years in prison (r/technology)

• bertbarndoor: Bernie would have better luck trying to outlaw junk food.
• z3n777: i get the intent, but a 20 year felony for building SOMETHING nobody can define consistently sounds like political theater, not safety policy.
• blatantninja: Unless it’s a global ban, and of course it won’t be, all this would do is put us at a disadvantage. I hate it but that’s a fact.

Sony says gamers don’t own their digital purchases, but 44 examples of its own wording suggest otherwise (r/technology)

• DENelson83: Big corporations simply move the goalposts when they think it is profitable to do so.
• LordOfRuinsOtherSelf: I am enjoying the shout of, “If buying isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing.”
• Cheatscape: Headline should be “Sony admits you own your games. See quotes.” A headline like this, to a casual reader, makes it seem like Sony has changed their opinion over time, or that there’s some contention surrounding the topic. But there is no contention. Sony says you own your games. They’ve said it over and over again, for years and years. What they’re doing in this most recent lawsuit is lying. The more people that understand the truth of the matter, the more likely there is to be change. There’s no ambiguity as to what is going on here, and headlines should reflect the cut and dry nature of it.

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Techmeme surfaced SemiAnalysis’s September 14 deep dive, “A Brain Too Big to Carry — On-Device vs Datacenter Inference,” about a decision that may define the first useful fleets of general-purpose robots: how much intelligence should travel on the machine, and how much should run on shared datacenter hardware.

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AI is going to backfire badly (Blind)

• ssupbruh (Uber): Already happening. I don’t use Netflix much, but some Google apps like YouTube already feel like they are someone’s WIP branch build. Meta was abysmal even before AI so the change is not as noticeable there, but still.
• BroCoderz (Apple): Yes. This is called poor leadership.
• COck45 (Snowflake): You’re right. Unfortunately, constant fear mongering campaigns from AI labs and unqualified extroverts amplifying them brought us where we are now. But this madness faces reality — people give up on the nonsense such as spec-driven development without code reviews since it doesn’t work. Let them fail.

Anthropic’s team suggest SWEs will need to change careers (Blind)

• gudtime (Netflix): Wake me when Anthropic lays off all of their SWE
• TC1Billi (Indeed): Notice how all the researchers who claim it’s going to destroy the world and quit always do so around vest 🤣
• hljsnw88 (Amazon): Let’s just say that economists tend to have a track record of not being able to predict anything beyond what’s for lunch.

Why would anyone ever leave Google? (Blind)

• MrCurryMan (Google): Stuck in a bad team with no growth prospects. Fear of becoming irrelevant.
• pDlG34 (Google): Pretty simple - no upside. People who left and joined Anthropic 2 or 3 years ago will have absolutely dwarfed even lifetime earnings of a top Google SWE career.
• sontoall (Google): Because working in ads for over 3 years and no promotion makes a person go crazy

China Is Ditching Touchscreens For Essential Controls In New Cars (r/technology)

• mvw2: Good. Screens were stupid.
• The14thWarrior: Let’s hope China forces others to do the same in a cascading effect.
• slick7studios: Imho, a car built with the structure and safety as modern day 2026, with the electronics integration of 1998 is something I would buy right now.

Amazon workers on food stamps have tripled despite its record revenue—and it’s just the latest evidence of the new economy of shrinking labor shares (r/technology)

• No_Intern5991: It’s not broken. It’s working perfectly as intended, which is even worse.
• omnichronos: When you are employed and receive food stamps, you should be required to report your employer so that the government can charge the employer double the amount you receive. This would incentivize them to pay higher wages.
• mahaanus: You can make arguments that minimum wage is bad - and some of them are actually good and there is research that shows the negative effects of raising the minimum wage. That goes out the window when there are government subsidies for people below a certain threshold. If they’re working Amazon should be paying them enough so they’re not on the dole, otherwise Amazon is just outsourcing part of the salary to the taxpayers.