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The Pragmatic Engineer surfaced the piece in “Headed for the Exit: the Great Engineering Leader Career Break”, Gergely Orosz’s account of an unusual pattern: experienced CTOs, vice presidents of engineering, and heads of engineering are leaving desirable jobs without another role lined up.

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Everyone at Microsoft needs to chill the fuck out about rewards (Blind)

• OSeeEye (Oracle): You guys are getting 1%? I should move to Microsoft
• MSFTbleed (Microsoft): Even a promo is like a 5% raise. Who gives a crap
• whyking (Bloomberg): People might be treating their increment % as an alternative metric to gauge their standing in the team. When layoffs are going on every year, this is meaningful data point. Especially for those whose managers never provide any meaningful feedback all year.

Well done Deepmind folks! (Blind)

• brzz007 (Autodesk): It took gemini 20 minutes of back and forth to read a pdf with events and add them to my calendar yesterday. I could literally do it the caveman way in 3.
• ssupbitxh (VMware): Gemini is crap and I hate that I bought one year subscription
• natcha (Walmart): Ishan trying to promote with Twitter/xitter account. Obviously.

Getting rich in tech is all about luck than anything else. (Blind)

• riddle_ (Meta): Yes, it’s all about right place right time
• agr3ter (ByteDance): getting rich is mostly about luck period
• Shrike22 (Meta): Maybe you’re just too stupid to pick the rocket ships from the rest.

Viral De-Flock America campaign urging people to destroy AI cameras on Halloween night gains momentum (r/technology)

• CautionarySnail: Rowdy celebrations like this are vastly improved by leaving all digital devices safe at home.
• Whargod: Just make it a TikTok challenge, there won’t eb any left by dawn.
• DopamineSavant: DeFlock needs to become official and start endorsing candidates. I’m annoyed as shit trying to research the Flock position of all the candidates on my local ballot.

Remote work benefits are much bigger than a paycheck (r/technology)

• BrainLow6059: This is just corporate propaganda to lower remote salaries. You’re paid for what you do, not where you do it from.
• Hrekires: One thing I appreciated when we were WFH full-time during Covid was not having to maintain an entirely separate wardrobe that I only wear at work.
• CaptZ: I was talking to a coworker today about wfh. There have been multiple days that I didn’t feel good and if I had to go to the office, I would have called in sick. But if I’m home, I don’t have to get dressed nicely, drive and possibly spread my sick germs around the office, and if I’m wfh, I would still work. Saving both my time off and my team being short a person. It’s a win/win.

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Coworker uses AI to write all his messages (Blind)

• TXPg31 (NVIDIA): Things like status updates are mostly performative BS anyway. Why wouldn’t he optimize? This is one of the places where slop is actually the right solution.
• jkWb53 (Coinbase): Start doing the same before you become the team bottleneck. Nobody cares about your artisanal code, so get off your high horse and meet your weekly PR quotas ASAP
• f thuggery (Roku): Use Ai to summarize his messages and it won’t bother you anymore

Don’t come to Bloomberg I think we’re doomed… (Blind)

• BBaxel (Bloomberg): Just making stuff up. There’s no 15-20% layoff. Stop the fear mongering. We’ve still had zero layoffs and there’s no real news of one coming up
• merchant0 (Klaviyo): Damn that’s actually so cooked. My dream job was Bloomberg because I assumed no layoffs. Thank the lord I failed r4 of my interviews last year.
• WPslayer (Bloomberg): it was 10% last week in December. 20% by October on he following Monday. By Friday, 75% of us will be getting shitcanned by Sept 1st.

Genuinely why would anyone want to work at Microsoft at this point? (Blind)

• EdSnowden👀 (Oracle): You can either work at Microsoft for \$250k TC or some mid-sized company for \$150k.
• xcdvetyui1 (Microsoft): Unlimited PTO. People regularly go 3 weeks. Especially to India and often 4 or 5 and work weeks from there. The place shuts down 3 weeks at holiday. Tradeoff is extreme politics and everyone worships the CVP. Not innovative at all. Just navigating org politics and endless reviews before you can build anything.
• murderbot6 (Meta): what are the better options? rolling layoffs seem to be the norm now

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility / The shipment was found at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books (r/technology)

• Brick_Cabin2529: 404 is pretty great aren’t they? hope they keep up this quality of work
• Waidawut: An appalling desecration in the name of “progress” – it’s the American way.
• bryguypgh: We need a law against destroying the last known physical copy of a book with astronomical penalties. This is a crime against humanity.

Honey loses over 7 million users and 7,000 stores following YouTuber’s viral expose (r/technology)

• Maleficent-Serve2553: In conjunction with the Phoebe Gates news in the same vein, it feels like an increasing number of companies are battling for attribution of a declining number of legitimate consumer purchases (i.e., stealing someone’s margin is more profitable than creating new organic sales).
• Tasty-Traffic-680: Honey, I blew up my business model
• YAELLINGISFUN: Losing 35% of your users and 20% of your merchants because one guy made a YouTube video is the kind of accountability regulators should be embarrassed they didn’t provide first.

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Techmeme surfaced Google’s August 18 launch post, “Operation Blue Skies: Reducing Aviation Climate Impact with AI”. The project will use AI weather forecasts to identify patches of atmosphere where aircraft are likely to create persistent, heat-trapping contrails, then ask a small share of transatlantic flights to pass above or below them. The important change is scale: earlier experiments altered individual airline flight plans, while this state-backed trial will coordinate avoidance across a busy section of oceanic airspace.

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I have not typed a single line of code since January this year. All Claude generated. (Blind)

• Txsp46 (Cisco): I have not used AI a single time since ever. All hand generated. I’m happy that my coding and cognitive skills are as sharp as ever.
• VhAc71 (Apple): Pretty sure interviews and interview prep is the only context where I’ll ever write code by hand.
• hlfvjcbj (JPMorganChase): I am not even enjoying this tbh. Dont get the same satisfaction when I finish task

More and More Convinced future isn’t great for Goog (Blind)

• ctf98Ht (Meta): I use google AI search, so whatever you have posted is just your opinion with one datapoint.
• abababcd (Western Digital): Meta being pessimistic on google is the highest level of disillusionment , world needs google and the world is a better place without meta.
• uneal (Palo Alto Networks): I agree , these AI agents are eating up goog lunch

Do you believe Anthropic employees really don’t work for the money? (Blind)

• cQfh64 (Intuit): Everybody only works for money, period. People who say i want to focus on mission and problem solving already have millions in the bank to take care of their expenses.
• boredddddd (Microsoft): Obviously. They work for the mission lol
• 4599f332 (PayPal): I believe they don’t _only_ work for the money.

Bernie Sanders calls out Sergey Brin for spending over \$100 million to defeat California’s billionaire tax — ‘If California passes its one-time 5% wealth tax, Brin would owe \$14 billion and still be worth \$270 billion’ (r/technology)

• Donnicton: But you don’t understand, if he has to pay taxes then that means he has to exist as part of society, rather than above it!
• hard2resist: Track record. Billionaires lobby hard against every wealth tax proposal, one-time or permanent. Brin’s \$100 million spend proves the point if this passes, expect the same fight against the next one.
• Oceanbreeze871: A one time billionaire tax is better than no tax ever.

3D-printing enthusiast creates ‘Flock Sock’ to blind controversial cameras, shares design — slip-on cover attaches to broom handle to make it easy to put on devices placed on traffic and streetlights (r/technology)

• Redlettucehead: Now that’s a waste of a good sock. What you may not realise however, and which I just learnt, is that there is about 2 pounds of copper and an ounce of gold in each camera as well as an NVDA chip
• MarketCrache: Tucker Carlson said we shouldn’t permanently blind them with a green laser pointer…
• Dave-C: I’m just waiting on the flipper zero that can make them report all tag plates as “penis.” One day…

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Quantizing a language model is often treated as a final conversion step: train in high precision, compress the finished checkpoint, measure the damage, and accept the best compromise. NVIDIA’s latest work makes a more useful engineering move. It turns quantization error into a condition the model can train against, allowing the deployment format to influence the model before release rather than merely constraining it afterward.

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Techmeme surfaced Emanuel Maiberg’s August 17 investigation, “We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility”. The story turns a murky argument about AI training data into a physical supply-chain investigation: 404 Media placed a tracker in a rare-book shipment and followed it to Amazon’s VGT3 facility in Las Vegas, where Amazon scans books for AI training and destroys the paper copies.

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Companies with strong engineering culture? (Blind)

• bampf_it (Waymo): Lol @ the people saying Waymo isn’t quality critical or is a slop factory. Very high standards here for good reason.
• jaskeerat (Salesforce): Strong engineering culture lol. These places are all slop factories. If you want to see real engineering, there are no name companies who do phenomenal open source work. Plenty of DB startups in this category. Big tech has stopped innovating for a long time.
• something4 (Meta): Meta used to have a strong engineering culture but it’s all AI slop now

Should I give up coasting at work to let my fiance be a stay at home wife (Blind)

• vJlu25 (Microsoft): If your fiance has any decency at all, she wouldn’t want you to sacrifice your wellbeing and health. If she’s OK with you working 60h weeks and adding stress so she doesn’t have to work, that tells you something.
• o’henry (Zoox): I don’t remember.. remind me again. Is you fiancé beautiful you said? Work your ass off. If you send her outside maybe she might get stolen!
• aVqo85 (The Trade Desk): This is a troll post. He’s bragging about his lack of work, TC, and “beautiful” wife when everyone knows it’s total BS cus nobody would write this garbage. Lol

Building a business is so damn hard (Blind)

• auqhzu (NVIDIA): Which is why you need to be an operator plugging into a platform like Airbnb, Turo, VRBO. Outsource the front end to an established player and focus on the operations.
• &3’h &3$w (Salesforce): It is an infinitely easier and higher ROI path to wealth to be a random, checked out employee at a large company than to start your own business. This is why the politics at companies is so nasty: people know how hard it is to actually make a living outside doing real work and 99% of corporate employees have no talent or drive to do anything else
• oopskie (Oracle): Why wont you just pay for ads. Or use agents. For me hardest part is to listen to management.

Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees (r/technology)

• frquency-equinox: Who would’ve thought people that don’t have to sit in hours of traffic, can be at home with their pets (and maybe their spouse), and save money making food at home etc would be happier 🫨?
• Javontarious: All the studies in the world can show how remote work is better for people, the environment, etc and it won’t matter. Companies are weaponizing in office regardless of the data.
• ifeltatap: I wish that everybody who has a job that doesn’t need them be on location, can work from home and avoid all the added stress that comes with a commute, traffic, crowds etc… it’s a massive quality of life improvement that people deserve.

Chris Hansen banned from Roblox live at CrimeCon during child safety demo with Schlep (r/technology)

• Rockyrox: I will never let my children play this game. It’s filled with creeps and it’s just too much exposure to the world for children.
• dpny_nyc: Why does dexerto cite Gays Against Groomers, the far-right anti LGBT org?
• StatementCareful522: Nothing says “we have have nothing to hide” like banning one of the most renowned predator-hunters

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Techmeme surfaced Fields Medalist Timothy Gowers’s August 12 essay, “What sort of maths are LLMs good at?”. Written days after OpenAI announced ten claimed advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science, the essay asks a more useful question than whether language models are simply “good at maths”: what kinds of mathematical search currently play to their strengths, and where might human judgment still matter?

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Companies are mailing interview candidates THIS now (Blind)

• uibwrnbebd (eBay): All this because they don’t want an in person interview 🤣
• 356r556556 (Google): Wouldn’t that make it easier to cheat since you could just hire proxy interviewer and they wouldn’t even know who’s behind the mask?
• CbDG61 (Coinbase): bring back onsites

Made a fool of myself and regret it (Blind)

• lppmsj (Google): Now send another mail saying you will do his job at a pay decrease and ask him to resign
• @nosense (Red Hat): See if you can recall the message. Otherwise also don’t worry about it. Most likely it will be read by his assistant and laughed at it.
• fqXS20 (Oracle): You were not in the list but now you are

Anthropic aiming for 2 trillion valuation (Blind)

• ututsfd (Flexport): Delusional… they will face some heavy competition from open source and will have to cut prices heavily. Also looks like their stock price has been trending down significantly
• hdjdjjnrn (Meta): Peak bubble.
• BGIR33 (Amazon): The tech bubble burst when sky-high valuations cratered as infrastructure buildouts failed to generate revenue. The builders are at least generating some revenue this time around, but valuations are going from sky-high to astronomical. Hard to see how this ends well.

Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin (r/technology)

• Anachron101: I have used Firefox for two decades now and I don’t understand why you wouldn’t. Before it was technology and the ability to adjust the browser to whatever you needed, including blocking scripts and ads. Now it’s simply the fact that everything else is Chromium
• frmr000: I’ve used Firefox for as long as I remember. I’m also a web developer who routinely needs to test on other browsers, so I’m well versed in what every browsers user experience is like. I don’t know why any human would use any browser other than Firefox, I really don’t. Oh well.
• el_doherz: This is why I moved to Firefox within minutes of reading what manifest V3 would do to adblockers. Not regretted it once and pushed multiple friends and family to make the switch too.

The CEO who fired 900 people on Zoom just before Christmas wants his job back | CNN Business (r/technology)

• Sean_Paul_Sartre: He’s been promoted to customer.
• thedeeb56: I worked for a guy that did that. The day before Christmas vacation he gave me a list of about 100 people to have their accounts disabled. We only had about 200 employees. I hated that fucker
• biladelph: Lol so this dude spent a few months rizzing the CEO (Garg) and the board to put himself on the board, gets Garg removed as CEO and then the stock tanks immediately by 45% LOL. Rich mfers live in La la land. This is literally an episode of the show Billions.