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Why is my Anthropic offer barely above my Google L5? (Blind)

• coinbased. (Coinbase): Which company do you think will increase in value more? Anthropic. The answer is Anthropic.
• Acmonfc (Pinterest): How did you prep OP? What resources did you use? Also Anthropic is the better choice.
• pTvV57 (Google): Sounds about right for a senior role at Anthropic. I got 315k base and 900k/4, so 540k/yr. They don’t negotiate so that was it. Recruiters tell you equity will be worth a lot more at IPO but who knows.
  
  Staff offer was 325k base and 1.6m/4 but they were not hiring for that level

I started to hand write code again (Blind)

• nzwswing79: It’s weird and stupid interviewers who are dumb as fk.
• cfdyu (Meta): Why are you looking for change? Nice TC and google
• 🆒♾️❕ (Meta): sounds like a waste of time, but good luck!

OpenAI firing safety researchers is a bad look imo (Blind)

• nzwswing79: 70+ hours /week is ridiculous WLB, i would reject such jobs even if it goes beyond 300k
• HaoZhang (Meta): Complaining nagging woketards who hide under the garb of safety should be fired IMHO. Respectfully.
• wayter (Wayfair): These safety researchers are mostly clowns. Good riddance

US Senate kills bill that could potentially shield Americans from skyrocketing power bills due to AI data centers — opponents say bill is ’toothless’ and doesn’t do enough to protect citizens (r/technology)

• Kamel-Red: It was a messaging bill with zero enforceable standards so that the Republicans can try to say they’ve done something other than making life harder and more expensive for the working class while cutting taxes for the rich over the past two years. Typical partisan hackary.
• OpSecBestSex: “It sought to institute a federal standard for states and Public Utility Commissions, directing regulators to consider whether entities that consume large amounts of electricity, such as data centers, should cover the incremental costs of energy infrastructure needed to serve them."
  
  So this bill does literally nothing of substance because nothing is stopping regulators from considering this right now as we speak. This bill was only designed to make Republicans look good right before the midterms, so that they can win and continue screwing us for the next two years.
• Jendalar: the companies who build these datacenters could easily build their own power stations.

Chick-fil-A takes a stand against fast-food drive-thru AI trend (r/technology)

• Deranged40: Chik-fil-a and In-n-out have both got it figured out. It baffles me every time I go to either one. They both always have a line around the building, 15 people clocked in at once, almost never get your order wrong, and their biggest struggle seems to be finding more places to stuff all the cash they’re bringing in.
  
  Meanwhile, Burger King begrudgingly staffs two people at the same time, gets overwhelmed when someone orders more than two burgers, and gets the order wrong most of the time.
• BowlEducational6722: It really is funny how Chick-fil-A has laid out a model for fast food success and so many other franchises just…choose to go the opposite direction and double down on enshittification.
• Number1BestYogurtBoi: I won’t go to any restaurant with an AI drive thru. I may be left with only Chick-fil-A soon by the looks of things.

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Techmeme surfaced Google DeepMind’s October 6 launch, “EmbeddingGemma 2: an open, lightweight multimodal embedding model.” It is not another chatbot. It is a compact model for turning text, code, images, video, and audio into numerical representations that can be compared in one shared space. That plumbing is what lets an application retrieve a video moment from a spoken query, search code by describing behavior, or find an image with ordinary language.

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All Harvard/Stanford CS land FAANG-level jobs (Blind)

• ka2ua (Google): No harvard and Stanford grad wants to work at faang as a swe with a bunch of h1bs.
• djyss (Amazon): lol it’s a failure for them to end up at faang
• out of (ByteDance): A Harvard/Stanford grad ending up in FAANG is really sad, unless it’s for top-tier roles like research scientist, or some senior director. Thankfully I’ve never seen one.

\$890k/yr 2 yr avg TC for L6 Google AI/ Agentic PM!? (Blind)

• abracadbr (Google): Sounds fake, basically every PM is an AI PM because every product is adding AI, can’t imagine any L6 being that special.
• QFYb20 (Synopsys): Makes my L4 300k comp at Google look like peanuts
• Hilda’s (Salesforce): What’s 4 year comp?

My team has 3 staff but 0 junior engineers (Blind)

• EAArne (Silver Lake): AI has removed the need for juniors. The end of tech is upon us.
• VP Tushar. (JPMorganChase): Am also VP
• subzer0_ (Dropbox): Claude is your juniors

Amazon interviewer accused me of cheating when I wasn’t. Wtf? (Blind)

• RjcF04 (Zillow Group): Other cheaters ruined it for you.
• lastlayoff (L3Harris Technologies): Probably jumped into the optimal solution without considering some of the nuances of the problem.
• Superbia (Microsoft): I’ve interviewed a lot of people, and instead of jumping to “I think you’re cheating,” I usually dig into the problem by asking questions and changing things up. That works for testing anyone, regardless of whether they’re cheating. Either way, they should have done their best to evaluate you.

Google Is Accused of Destroying Nearly 500 Football Fields of Forest for New Data Center Project (r/technology)

• Urborg_Stalker: It’s aggravating knowing that greedy assholes just won’t stop…they’ll never stop, keep exploiting everyone and everything they can to get another dollar in their pocket.
• Potatonet: All they have to do is issue proper fines for the damage that will make companies like Google think twice about that move in the future
  
  Still waiting for the FCC to do something about the US stock market so I’m not sure if it will happen in our lifetimes
  Edit: someone suggested they should lose the land use, I agree, make the bulldozing of every right and location on the planet stop by making actual laws with reprocussions that matter.
• Future-Turtle: “Don’t be evil”
  
  Absolute farce

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Techmeme surfaced OpenAI’s October 5 announcement, “Building advertising for the way people use AI.” The immediate change is a visual ad format that OpenAI plans to test in the United States later this month while people wait for ChatGPT to generate images. The larger story is that ChatGPT advertising is becoming a full commercial system: creative formats, conversion tracking, bidding signals, brand-safety controls, and outside measurement partners are being assembled around conversations in which users are already deciding what to do or buy.

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Google: special hiring event (Blind)

• ohjif (Microsoft): There are people waiting in TM for weeks and months and Google is doing hiring event. 🤦‍♂️
• GNsp11 (Google): This is definitely GCP lmao what a fucking shit show their expedited hiring process is why everyone makes fun of them
• Antigravty (Google): Prepare for termination

How do people survive Amazon? (Blind)

• heksbfjd (Amazon): There are a lot of morons who think they are gods gift to software engineering. They get pipped and don’t have the introspection to see what went wrong, and just say it’s unfair.
• nopeaceful (Qualcomm): Amazon is particularly hard on pure techies with no street smartness. You have to be able to game the leadership principles to your advantage, self promote without coming off as a show pony ," read the room", read between the lines etc. That’s the pattern I have observed among my co workers who left for Amazon all else being equal with regard to technical capability. It’s a black box observation of the traits that seem to work there take it for what its worth.
• (◕ᴥ◕ʋ) (Amazon): Been here 12 years. Actually loved being here until it was mainly about focusing on solving customer problems and delivering results. Now with AI rat race and all the layoffs etc. people are simply acting out and knowingly/unknowingly harming others to benefit themselves. Not sure what the playbook is now, but I have decided not to be part of the game and deliver/help others as much as I can. If I don’t survive, at least I will leave knowing that I was not the cause of anyone’s suffering.

People who say AI will end up creating more jobs instead of erasing them (Blind)

• Dalmartion (Meta): AI operators. Low paying jobs almost like blood draw nurses. No one wants them but they are the only jobs available
• napa9999 (ServiceNow): If you don’t know, you should prepare for unemployment. Sorry.
• BIyv26 (Amazon): We never know in advance what will emerge. We went from 90% agriculture to low single digits and no one figure out we’d watch influencers on our phones.

Companies that pay 700k+ for Staff roles (Blind)

• JasperAmaz (Amazon): I think people need a list of companies giving real jobs
• s&1sd (Apple): OpenAI definitely is 900k-1M+ for staff
• LC_God (Cisco): Cisco. Depending on team.

If Flock Wasn’t Enough, Dallas’ AI Cameras Are Scanning Homes From Garbage Trucks—57 Citations Have Followed (r/technology)

• tabrizzi: At this rate, drones will eventually be used to check backyards for violations.
• ICLazeru: They got cameras on the garbage trucks scanning your home so they can send you citations for HOA level bullsh*t…meanwhile, Epstein File child abusers walk free.
• epochwin: I’m curious about what are the major lawsuits against this type of surveillance and the intersection with 4th Amendment protections when it comes to government use

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TBPN surfaced the idea in its October 3 episode, “Sign-In With GPT, Anthropic Vs. the Pope, Paramount Rebrands as Skydance.” The hosts argue that OpenAI’s modest-sounding sign-in feature may matter more to small developers than the week’s flashier agent announcements. It lets eligible users authorize a third-party app to draw on usage already included in their ChatGPT plan, moving part of the inference bill from the app builder to the user who requested the work.

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At enterprise scale, connecting an AI agent to a useful tool is less an integration problem than a platform problem. A few hand-built Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers can work well, but hundreds of teams independently wiring agents to internal systems create duplicated infrastructure, inconsistent security, poor discoverability, and tool definitions that are expensive to load into a model’s context. In “Designing MCP Gateway: Uber’s MCP Management Platform,” published by the official Uber Engineering blog, Uber describes the shared control and data planes it built to turn thousands of existing service APIs into governed agent tools. The platform now hosts more than 800 MCP servers and 5,000 tools.

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Amazon October layoffs are starting to feel VERY real (Blind)

• cakecake (Amazon): My manager asked me if I want to switch team in 1 on 1 🤔
• vUkw56 (Expedia Group): 2026 where every month is Russian roulette for your employment status
• Jtermite (Apple): Former Amazonian. QuickSuite is pretty reliable. He/she was right about the last year Oct and this Jan layoffs

How are benefits at @Anthropic (Blind)

• run escape (Meta): Get the offer first. This is getting ridiculous. You can apply and not even get an interview. Why are you already thinking about benefits the ffff
• funi: Who cares about the benefits if your TC jumps from \$350k to \$1.5M
• skibiDB (MongoDB): The main benefit is not being at Microsoft.

Best AI startups with real equity upside left? (Not joining at \$5B+) (Blind)

• yiJv20 (Amazon): p0, legora, gc ai, liquid ai, cohere
• h1b&h4.ead: You won’t find anything. What you are looking for doesn’t exist
• abcdcbrf (Razorpay): let me know , if you find anything . On the same boat

Meta is cooking 🍳 (Blind)

• wd40s (Amazon): No one in their right mind will give any meaningful data to meta or Zuckerberg. They have the worst track record of data handling
• UnionRep (Meta): Yikes. People who work on it won’t even open the app because of security concerns btw.
• Mr. Wang (Google): Google Home is cooked

Apple’s new hardware chief says seeing screen protectors used on iPhones makes his “skin crawl” (r/technology)

• Level_Working9664: The price of a replacement iPhone screen makes my skin crawl
• PA2SK: If he’s so confident in his screens then offer to replace them for free.
• BlackDeath3: I have absolutely shattered my phone screen dropping it.

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Techmeme surfaced Apple’s October 2 developer notice, “Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS”. Apple says it will add controls that make granting this permission require unusually explicit user action, because AI agents turn a broad but historically specialized capability into a much larger privacy risk. The announcement is short and leaves the design unfinished, but its premise is important: consent that was barely adequate for conventional software becomes weaker when the recipient can plan, infer, and act on its own.

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Congrats to folks at Google / Deepmind (Blind)

• 73hdifii (Meta): This is a lame post.
• mtvma (Google): Yep! Proud of the work. We got little late but came up to quality
• notG3 (Google): Ain’t shit yet. Not releasing to the general public and benchmaxxing it seems odd.

LLMs are not hype (Blind)

• wd40s (Amazon): PayPal about 6 years late to the party.
• lzvu2s (Amazon): How often do you work on projects “from scratch”? Most of us work on codebases written over several years with live production customers. Are you noticing the same LLM performance when you add features on top of legacy code base?
• JXaK48 (Oracle): Deploy it and get the customers

Landed an OpenAI Offer! I MADE IT!!!! (Blind)

• allev (Rubrik): That’s some mad TC. Congratulations!! How tough was it to get in?
• fakkmidyud (SailPoint Technologies): But you’re causing unemployment with AI.. you’ll goto hell.. is that fine for you?
• LpPF22 (Amazon): Congratsss my guyyy!!!! Thats a crazy jump for ur yoe. Care to share ur journey?

Monthly AI coding limit (Blind)

• dragunov (Google): You guys get limited quota?
• sentryy (Intuit): 5000 monthly Claude and Cursor
• IBYh04 (HPE): HPE is unlimited, but if you go over \$3k, they start to ask questions.

Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee (r/technology)

• my_third_account: It’s kinda wild that they’ve been doing this for 9 years in near secrecy.
• evolutionxtinct: Don’t worry most of those employees selling this crap are x cops. Flock will implant ex-employees back at police agencies to help keep them in the environment. Flock is evil but the employees aren’t great either.
• Rakefighter: Cry me a river. Everyone there is involved in doing evil.