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The hard part of building a frontier-model cluster is not collecting a large number of GPUs. It is making hundreds of thousands of accelerators, spread across buildings and separated by as much as 100 kilometers, behave like one dependable machine. At that scale, network topology, firmware rollout, spare capacity, cooling, power delivery, and even the failure rate of individual signaling links all become part of model-training performance.

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Techmeme surfaced Google Quantum AI’s October 15 report, “Bringing the magic: Google breaks open a bottleneck in quantum computing,” after the underlying experiment was published in Science. The result does not mean that Google’s Willow processor can now run useful fault-tolerant applications. It does show, on real superconducting hardware, that a promising way to manufacture one of universal quantum computing’s most expensive ingredients can work.

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My interviewer literally said “this is the best answer I’ve heard all day.” I still didn’t get the job. (Blind)

• \$oney (Airbnb): He probably only hears like 1 answer per day
• hFsG65 (Snap): The stripper said she liked me a lot
• secas (Pinterest): Both can be true .

The Netflix Layoffs feel random – is that normal??? (Blind)

• airbnbGo (Airbnb): Layoff !== performance based my guy
• CcMG45 (Salesforce): You seem so naive to think layoffs are performance based 🤣🤣🤣
• MomDonny (Disney Streaming Services): It’s AI based. They just prompted layoff.md

Anthropic left us all behind (Blind)

• ci08t (Meta): Wow, they did what others have done long ago. What a feat.
• Jefry (Salesforce): So they just…reinvented Perforce?
• panda_muse (Meta): Slop work, slop blog and slop post

This turd director says he needs less engineers (Blind)

• ggh676"£- (Uber): Fewer engineers
• .horn dog (Meta): It’s one of the most mediocre teams in the company. Like extra low bar hires
• ⭐✨ (ex-Optum): Less engineers means less directors. He doesn’t know that

Netflix laid me off, and honestly, I don’t even want another SWE job. (Blind)

• KQUU11 (Netflix): I feel you. I’m sick of these Hunger Games.
• fndkdkne (ex-Block): TC or GTFO
• RenfieldD (Activision Blizzard): Setup your own rival streaming service, Feetpix

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Techmeme surfaced Anthropic’s October 16 study, “How employment is changing at Anthropic”. Its most useful finding is not that AI has simply removed jobs. Inside one unusually AI-native company, agents have multiplied output while shifting the scarce resources toward human attention, judgment, and organizational context. Technical hiring continued to grow, but entry-level hiring lost share and more work moved from direct production into supervising, reviewing, and coordinating machines.

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Future is dark- winter is coming hard (Blind)

• OCI-HI (Oracle): Unfortunately, I think you are totally right.
• K7mt0joaft (Meta): 70% chance to retain the job!
• ,? (EATON): Tbh even without AI most companies can trim 30% and see no impact. There is a lot of bloat

Which Companies will have #1 AI Model in 2026? (Blind)

• lmfk21 (Walmart): Where’s Anthropic
• papa84 (Meta): Anthropic?
• fkxs04 (Amazon): Grok > OpenAI

Netflix almost 10% Across Eng Laid Off (Blind)

• sgrj44 (Netflix): i saved them \$1M/yr and was talking about promo too. canned regardless
• izeb46 (Bloomberg): I thought it was 6 percent.
• _anony🐭 (GoDaddy): Those damn H1Bs eh

Why is Meta becoming more toxic than Amazon? (Blind)

• anubisss (Meta): Culture is as good as its people. Hire toxic people expect toxic culture.
• NEmg86 (Meta): It’s team dependent but in general Meta is founder led and the founder is very trashy which has good upside and downside. PSC is way more aggressive than OLR.
  
  Amazon is far more diversified than Meta which means a lot more real work. Meta is comparatively over staffed given the nature of the business.
• Ciohang (Meta): What are you talking about? I came from Amazon as well and that place is way more toxic than Meta.
  
  How long have you worked at Amazon?

Laid off by Meta in Aug. Today I signed with Google for 40% more. (Blind)

• Woz Woz (Apple): Congrats 🎉
  Which were the 5 on-sites?
  Any pointers about your prep?
• toxicated (Meta): Level before after
• Egoisto (Walmart): Oh no, it’s that “apex” interview shill again 💩

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Techmeme surfaced Anthropic’s October 16 research note, “Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins”. The discovery does not crack elliptic-curve cryptography. It instead reconstructs how some of the world’s most familiar cryptographic parameters were generated in the late 1990s, replacing an unexplained choice by the NSA with a reproducible trail back to timestamps and an ordinary C library random-number generator.

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People with > 10 years in tech (Blind)

• sergum (PayPal): 32+ yrs in tech in SV. I am not very smart, but i survive like a cockroach. Never ass-kissed. But there were moments when i should have spoken up, but chose to stay silent. Never attempted to climb too high, but accolades came every now and then. Cordial but strictly professional relations with coworkers. Was cocky in my 20s, but mellowed over the years. Hard work, timely delivery, excellent written communication since pre-AI days. I think my biggest asset is being stupid and not having a strong/passionate opinion about anything in tech. Like when people fight about Windows vs Linux or Android vs iOS, I find it mildly amusing. Just tools for a techie to make money. Life’s joy lies elsewhere.
  
  But this AI thing + my age may be my last gasp. Still singing my swan song though!
• speedboats (Palo Alto Networks): Perspective. Many people in the US don’t know where their next meal will be. This job market is apocalyptic. Trying to remain grateful for what I have in these trying times. Sometimes I have to remember the grass may not be greener somewhere else, the entire field might be burned to a fucking crisp.
• puppy18 (Meta): Some level of enjoying the job does matter. While I wouldn’t say I jump out of bed every day, I would find it hard to be a lawyer, for instance, relative to swe.
  
  Tech used to be more fun tbh. Harder to love it now.

Most Microslop “products” are garbage that are shoved into the throats of employees (Blind)

• lb5fh6 (New): I can’t wrap my head around the success of Teams. It’s the worst chat app I have ever used. Hundreds of people that don’t look at “Teams and Channels” section due to how clunky it is. Basic shit like copy and paste is difficult. Following conversations is way harder than it should be. Chats flood the UI.
  
  I could go on and on. It’s so shit yet so ubiquitous.
• 3rdmoon (ServiceNow): It’s the problem of enterprise sales. Someone at your company buys a thing. They get talked into a bundle for all it will save them. It takes a year to install the product and get it configured, and it’s a 3-5 year contract.
  
  The people who have to use the product don’t have a voice in saying it’s crap, or shopping for something different.
• KtAJ87 (Microsoft): This is the enigma of success in an industry that has no franchise value

Anthropic’s Q3 Revenue Soars to \$16.8B Pre-IPO – A New AI Benchmark? (Blind)

• PornSpot (HubSpot): I can think of millions of ways to come up with 1 trillion quarterly revenue if I’m allowed to have 2 trillions in costs….. this proves nothing
• SatyasYot (Microsoft): Growth is already slowing. It’s a bad sign.
• phrubc (Undisclosed): Lol they were claiming 100bil annualised revenue earlier. This is a disaster

Amazon Bee devices. Dead on arrival. What a bunch of morons. Seriously (Blind)

• Shift<Left (Amazon): More Amazon garbage that’s destined for a landfill near you.
• groove-eng (Amazon): Not sure who approved the acquisition of Bee, and why we spent money on developing these products.
• LtJQ13 (Amazon): It’s that time of the year. Amazon announcing a bunch of new consumer devices and offering deals on .com around thanksgiving to tric customers into buying them once the hype wears off..

Surrounded by coworkers who don’t like AI (Blind)

• 0G ‎ (Meta): Yolo and unleash the agent swarm
• 582!! (Amazon): They are protecting their jobs and I agree they should refuse to use AI everywhere without any purpose
• 0G ‎ (Meta): I literally don’t reply to humans now. Agents responds to my XFN and fix issues autonomously. Sometimes it’s shit but mostly works just fine

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Quantum computing is constrained not only by hardware. The algorithm that looks elegant on paper must eventually become a reversible circuit, and a poor circuit can consume orders of magnitude more qubits and gates than a carefully designed one. That makes circuit design a software-and-systems optimization problem with unusually sharp rules: implementations can be expressed as code, checked automatically for correctness, and scored against an explicit resource budget.

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The Pragmatic Engineer’s October 15 Pulse surfaced Anthropic’s original engineering account of replacing Git for its main monorepo. The striking part is not simply that Anthropic built another internal developer tool. It says AI-generated code increased the rate of change so dramatically that assumptions embedded in source control, code review, CI, and even the meaning of a working copy stopped fitting the workload.

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My restarted teammate broke prod three times last quarter. I’m the one who got put on a PIP. (Blind)

• anubisss (Meta): Yeah, if they look similar or have similar backgrounds then you’re the odd one out of the tribe. Tough luck.
• uAVz08 (HubSpot): Did you try restarting him again
• .horn dog (Meta): Your manager and your teammate are from the same village?

My wife is upset I hid my PIP from her. But I landed a better job at Anthropic before it even ended. (Blind)

• EAArne (Silver Lake): Talk to your diary, get a therapist. We don’t care. People are trying to sleep here.
• bbhjg (Google): Are you female or male?
• AgentOfAI (Microsoft): Bro are you off your meds? Your wife isnt real. You never had a wife.

Netflix laid off 9% Eng (Blind)

• nvrGetGot (Google): Lot of useless people there.
• piphouse (LinkedIn): Wth do you give judgements like DS and PM are useless ? Everyone is performing a function and in a company like Netflix, irrespective of the role, excellence is expected.
  So i am pretty sure they are more useful in their role than yours at Roku.
  PS i am not in either of these roles but just feel disgusted by people who pass judgement thinking their role is better or untouchable.
• hurtlcker (Roku): Please be considerate with layoffs

FOMO on frontier labs pay (Blind)

• GGcC37 (Amazon): Your TC is \$1M - gtfo yourself
• Aduj26 (JPMorganChase): Thanks for showing that money can’t buy you mental health
• tUDw24 (Meta): Boohoo go f yourself

I work 3 separate remote jobs at startups alongside full time employment at Google AMA (Blind)

• nomnomz (Meta): Can’t imagine bragging about doing 4 shitty jobs instead of one good one.
  
  But maybe you hit a ceiling on your abilities and accumulating shitty ones is the only way to increase comp.
• _anony🐭 (GoDaddy): Feels illegal
• aefiuwehy8 (ZenBusiness PBC): How TF is that possible? Your other jobs haven’t asked you why you haven’t updated LinkedIn? Are you not worried about future background checks?