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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

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Techmeme surfaced this July 17, 2026 story in its General Compute item. The original report is Tim Fernholz’s TechCrunch article, Why the first GPU financiers are turning to inference chips in a \$400 million deal.

The important part is not merely that an AI infrastructure startup borrowed \$400 million. It is what the lender accepted as collateral: chips built specifically to run already-trained models. General Compute’s deal with Upper90 suggests that capital markets are beginning to treat inference hardware as a distinct, financeable asset class rather than a cheaper imitation of the Nvidia GPUs used for both model training and serving.

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AI didn’t make SWEs faster. It made you optional. (Blind)

• apple145 (Meta): You’re not a god, you’re just a massive loser. Look in the mirror
• anon022 (ex-Microsoft): I also shipped the same document gen engine. So your product is already useless.
• NoShitBruh (ZenBusiness PBC): Come back to us when you’ve made your first dollar from this vibe coded shit.

OpenAI’s new product: codex micro (Blind)

• इक्ष्वाकु_ (Apple): What the heck is this? Hardware for an app? Same thing a regular keyboard can do with same amount of clicks
• mancisk (Airbnb): It’s a novelty thing probably made by some 3rd party vendor with their name slapped on it. You’re overthinking it
• Xor1gTf: As soon as you unpack it starts begging you to kill it

Apple vs Anthropic (Blind)

• jukuhu (DocuSign): Anthropic mate just get in.
• 6️⃣7️⃣: Anthropic for the prestige
• NSCoaster (Meta): Take apple if you value your mental health. Anthropic gonna crash with the rest of the ai industry

Kylie Jenner’s dystopian Meta glasses get brutal backlash: ‘It’s giving fascism, not fashion’ — Meta is testing a prototype to “continuously record audio while taking photos every few seconds” without any warning light (r/technology)

• ckglle3lle: It’s depressing how basically all internet and computer tech seems to inevitably collapse into surveillance tech
• hard2resist: Meta glamorizing covert surveillance through celebrity endorsement is textbook dystopia. Fashion doesn’t justify eliminating privacy this is corporate voyeurism normalized.
• jellyturtsy: How’s this gonna work in states with all-party consent?

“There are no benefits to being owned by Microsoft,” says Doom dev: “They have destroyed immense amounts of value that I don’t even think that they’re aware of” (r/technology)

• depredador93: Letting go of the team the day before they launch a major expansion is peak corporate management, they did not even wait to see if the product was successful before gutting the studio
• Independent-Tree681: They were buying profitable studios to mask the losses Xbox was incurring. You can’t do that for a decade, it ends up here
• DrBaronVonEvil: Why do we allow so much unfettered monopolization of our arts and sciences? ID Software is a historic name for video games and it’s going to starved to death in Microsoft’s basement. The amount to which Microsoft is a joke of a business is only rivaled by how much of a joke US regulations are.

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A failure in the chain of trust

The official Cloudflare Blog published this incident and protocol-engineering account on July 14, 2026. It explains how a failed DNSSEC key rollover made Albania’s entire .al top-level domain unreachable through validating resolvers, how Cloudflare restored access in 1.1.1.1, and how a new DNS error code made that emergency security bypass visible to clients for the first time.

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Techmeme surfaced this piece in its July 16, 2026 item on the Oversight Board’s first evaluation of large language models. The original report, Are LLMs Stifling Political Speech? An Assessment of How AI Models Protect Free Expression, asks whether models apply the speech restrictions of repressive governments even when the user is somewhere those restrictions do not apply.

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I know a guy who joined DeepMind for 350k and after a year, lost most of his social life and in 3 years became fat (Blind)

• geffler (ex-Microsoft): Bro is coping cause he’s not in DeepMind
• ngzI43 (ByteDance): Someone’s living rent free in Google’s mind.
• Oblocknqqa (Amazon): Are you not attracted to him anymore? You’ll find someone else bro. I believe in you.

Anthropic or OpenAi (Blind)

• gottagetm (Cruise): It’s a shit post like many others
• Spieg (ex-Netflix): OAI — you don’t know if these valuations will hold so I would play for learning experience and having a good foundation. L7 with 390 base is good enough to learn a ton and live comfortably. If the IPO goes well then great and if not then you’ll not feel that you wasted time.
• lHanfgb (LinkedIn): OAI remote honestly sounds like a living hell

Your position has been eliminated (Blind)

• tin-goy-l (Google): So sounds like you will still have a job. What’s the problem?
• amazonone (Amazon): Unions have turned into state sponsored welfare programs
• contigoch (Navistar): Good. Time for tech workers to unionize

The terrifying rise of schoolboys making AI girlfriends. Boys as young as 12 are now in romantic ‘relationships’ with chatbots, and it’s affecting how they treat girls in the real world. (r/technology)

• Spiritual-Nail-2641: ‘Her’ (2013), but significantly worse.
• MogarRage: As the younger generation would say “chat im cooked”
• ParadoxPerson02: Are we surprised? Futurama warned us about this over 20 year ago, and we’re surprised?

A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry (r/technology)

• throwawaybsme: Because the AI industry dredge the Internet to train the AI models only to sell us back our own information.
• MannToots: According to every economic look at it… what wealth? Everyone says they are insolvent. Which is it?
• Gloomy-Tank9295: The majority of Americans want them shut down and an investigation as to why they were able to pop-up so quickly and steal our information and resources

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The Pragmatic Engineer surfaced this piece in its July 15, 2026 podcast episode, Context engineering with Dex Horthy. Gergely Orosz’s conversation with the HumanLayer cofounder is nominally about giving language models better context, but its deeper subject is how software teams can use coding agents without losing control of the systems those agents modify.

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Is Fable 5 really the end of SWE? Or is it really just a transformation? (Blind)

• AlucardPen (Capital One): This is the model that was “too dangerous to release”? Fuck off. This hype marketing is getting old and annoying
• ☕. (Amazon): I don’t think what kills SWE is a smarter model. I think it would be a rearchitecture of how software is written and delivered. The current systems still assume humans are involved somewhere.
• pico_gallo (Microsoft): I really don’t understand how software engineers that create scope, define work, create strategy, design systems, being clarity and align, etc, can be replaced. Just had a peer send a PR written with Claude, the code was good, it was just not what it was supposed to do, it was an entirely different thing. And this is after several discussions and docs about what needed to be done. Coding was always the easy part.

Cloned Docusign in 48 hours (Blind)

• GoXu46 (6sense): But I trust a signature from DocuSign. I don’t from you. That takes more to change. But also. Yes, change is coming for them
• fItf61 (Thomson Reuters): Ok now use fable 5 to help you market this, get all legal affairs in order, help you setup a legal business entity, and get your first dozen paying customers. If you can pull that off in the next 2 weeks, you’re on to something.
• PIP4ME&U (Salesforce): That’s like saying I can replace Honda because I made a car with legos. The functionality is easy, what’s hard is the business: sales people to help you buy, legal to sign off so can CYA, support so there’s someone you can call when things inevitably break and of course you need eng to keep checking in useless, buggy code to perpetuate the infinite cycle of maintenance.

Is Databricks still top 5 prestigious companies (Blind)

• Srini-SVP (PayPal): The D in FAANG is for databricks
• gewgul (Google): This comment section is a massive cope. DB is outranked only by the frontier AI labs. Extraordinary talent density.
• nbyP67 (Lockheed Martin): It’s a job why do you care about prestige

The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public (r/technology)

• essidus: Literally the same thing that eventually killed the google glasses.
• Punch-N-Judy: It’s so interesting that humanity can’t stop mass surveillance or non-consensual wars but we’ve rejected spyware glasses 2 separate times now (Google Glass in the 2010s and now these.)
• Professional_Bat9174: Can’t even wear your pervert glasses. Literally 1984.

Almost Half Of All LinkedIn Posts Are Now AI-Written (r/technology)

• stedmangraham: LinkedIn posts were ahead of the curve by appearing AI written years before genAI was available to the public
• RationalBeliever: This is an advertisement for an AI detection tool. There are no accurate AI detection tools on the market.
• SweatyAd8914: If you count the mindless corporate human bots that make up the other 50%, I’d argue 100% is slop now.