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OpenAI culture is shit 💩 (Blind)

• on pip (Google): You forgot to mention the part where TC is \$1M?
• pRsw24 (ex-Bloomberg): Man, I just feel incredibly lucky to have worked in the tech industry of 2015-2022. Back then, if a company was like this, IT MADE NEWS. And most of us who worked during this time and preserved our RSUs are ready to retire now or just work at our own pace/take a low paying, low stress remote job or just do own consulting. I cannot fathom working for companies like OpenAI or Anthropic. If Amazon was evil, Meta took it to the next level, and these AI companies took it to the ultimate level, and it’s spread like a virus across the tech industry now including Bloomberg.
  
  This tells me, always be prepared for what’s next, save money when and where you can (think renting a 2k apartment a little further out from the office instead of a 4k close to the office), invest smart, and make sure you have sufficient passive income for the future. LOOK AFTER YOURSELF. Prioritize yourself.
• card.bard (Stripe): Lot of former stripes there…

Accept 150k offer or stay homeless? (Blind)

• jeodueba (1Password): Maybe a lil perspective is in order? 150k is in the top 10% of earners in the US. Open your eyes wider than the tech bubble.
  
  You spent 5 years making over 200k, some years almost a million dollars, and don’t have an emergency fund to keep you from being homeless for a year… idk what to tell ya. You had the resources to set yourself up to weather this without the melodrama.
  
  A 150k offer isn’t what’s embarrassing. You earned 2mil in 5 years and didn’t give yourself a safety net? That’s the embarrassing thing.
  
  You’re acting like being a top 10% earner is an insult. Get over yourself and quit the pity party. The offer doesn’t make you a loser. The way you’re handling this does. Being a loser is a choice you made and are making by acting like a big baby. Grow up.
• CoachBrian (Coinbase): If you got interviews at 80 companies this year and only got one offer far below expectations, then there’s a very serious issue with your interview tactics.
  
  Usually you know if it’s a competency issue as you’ll feel like you bombed it. What % of the interviews do you feel you nailed technically but didn’t get offers for?
  
  Competency, Culture Fit, and Coworker Test are the three pillars to focus on. That’s what I focus on with my interview prep clients, and it’s helped over 100 people land offers.
  
  DM if you want some help with that, don’t want to anger the spam gods here. Either way, fix that interview tactic issue asap. You’ve had more interviews than 99% of people looking for a job.
• metarefuge (Apple): You’ve been unemployed for less than a year, coming off of an average of 500k plus for five years, and are now homeless? Is there a drug alcohol land gambling problem here?

How much do you currently work on the weekend? (Blind)

• kCdf57 (Intel): 0 hours. I’m retiring in < 6 months. I don’t give a fuck. I’m literally only here to help my remaining reports get better roles outside of this shithole.
• awmP3tyC (Cisco): Who works on the weekend? Don’t do that to yourself
• PornSpot (HubSpot): If ur doing this u need a new job

AI Exec: We May Have Pulled Off “The Largest Theft of Labor in Human History” (r/technology)

• invyros: > “[It] seems to be particularly good at predicting text of news articles like whenever i have it complete in the middle of a sentence in a NYT article, it seems to complete the sentence on point.”
  
  It’s worth all the societal and environmental damage that AI causes…to have it complete a sentence that someone else has already written.
• BigBogBotButt: Large language models that were fed millions of news stories to train on good at predicting news story writings.
  
  Hard hitting news.
• Quite_Srsly: I predict that the next prediction will predict this prediction.

US appeals court rules against Kalshi, says states can regulate prediction markets (r/technology)

• PeanutCheeseBar: Given that they didn’t have a prepared response for this outcome, I guess they didn’t predict this would happen.
• Particular-Break-205: There was only a 20% chance this would happen!
• TheFoxsWeddingTarot: The owners probably bet against it and are now going to retire leaving their employees holding the bag.

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The Pragmatic Engineer surfaced its September 24 Pulse, “The Pulse: RoR creator sparks new ‘death of coding by hand’ debate”. Its public preview reports that 37signals now has agents generate nearly all its code and asks whether professional hand-coding is over. In his Rails World keynote, co-founder David Heinemeier Hansson says the company recently made agent-written code its normal workflow; writing code by hand is now the exception.

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30-year fixed mortgage rate jumps sharply Thursday to 7.45% (r/StockMarket)

• HipnotiK1: [I remember when they went from under 3 to 4 and everyone said to wait for them to drop back down lol

And housing prices never dropped despite rates doubling. Insane](https://www.reddit.com/r/StockMarket/comments/1wpm92h/comment/pbwno93/)

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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 search for consciousness may be stalled partly by the question researchers are asking. In Scientific American’s October 2026 essay, philosopher Tim Bayne proposes that a familiar word might conceal an unreliable scientific category. Before building a detector that decides whether an infant, animal or machine is conscious, researchers may need to reconsider what that detector would measure.

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Artificial intelligence can replace tasks while increasing demand for workers elsewhere. In “Help wanted”, The Economist argues that this second effect is already substantial: its estimate puts American jobs created by AI at roughly one million, compared with about 200,000 announced AI-related layoffs since mid-2023. The article describes an uneven employment expansion, with losses in routine office work alongside demand for people who build, deploy and use the technology.

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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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A Russian military helicopter made a brief incursion into NATO member Poland’s airspace, Polish army says (r/worldnews)

• Equivalent_Store_645: meanwhile europe continues to wipe spit off their faces and say “we must not escalate.”
• UnsignedRealityCheck: Yeah they’ve been doing it to us for decades (Finland). They turn off their transponders, cross the border and make ’neener neener fuck you’ U-turn when we go and check it. Excuses are always the same bullshit, gaslighting and accusing us something. Just another Tuesday.
• Dark-Cloud666: Yeh until Poland pokes back and Russia loses a aircraft over polish territory.

Congressman Cohen Introduces Comprehensive Articles of Impeachment Against President Donald Trump (r/law)

• Skritch_X: It is just boggling that, even though this is a list of 26 impeachable offenses, and despite the headline stating “Comprehensive”… there are so many other impeachable things he has done this term that could be added.
• kevendo: Great list. At the very least, someone needed to be keeping track of these in the Congressional record.
• Real-Contribution285: Reasons to vote against the worst major politician in recent US history (maybe ever)? Yes. Realistic articles of impeachment? He’ll no. It’s such a bad approach.

Which hobby has ended more relationships than people realize? (r/AskReddit)

• mikeyfireman: Anything that requires hooking up a trailer (rv camping, boating, horses) the fights I see at the boat ramp are amazing.
• tsh87: Apparently Crossfit has led to a lot of divorces. And affairs.
• Karisa_Marisame: Looking at the replies, I think there’s really only one thing that is harmful to relationship, and that is obsession. Obsession with anything really. Because if you’re spending too much time on that hobby, then you’re not spending enough time with your partner.

What chain restaurant will be gone by the end of the decade? (r/AskReddit)

• MountainDew-Can: I hope it’s Panera. I haven’t been in one in a while due to prices and declining food quality, but based on what I see on Reddit, it’s only gotten worse.
• Just_a_Rat: Hooters. Barely hanging on, and “breastaurants” in general on on a steep decline.
• JennJayBee: Crumbl. The novelty is gone at this point, and their prices are just too damn high.

Drilling begins at ‘real site’ of Noah’s Ark as activists warn ‘Darwinism will be dismantled’ (r/nottheonion)

• -SkeptiCat: Spoiler: it won’t dismantle the theory of evolution
• malepitt: Since they’re funded and run by True Believers, the explorers will most likely find “encouraging preliminary results” which will of course require further expensive exploration.
• Organic_Room_5556: I’ve been there. It’s a rock formation. The guy running the little museum who was convinced that he’s the guardian of a holy site was incredibly sweet though.

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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.