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If you could snap your fingers and reduce world human population by 50%?
If you could snap your fingers and reduce world human population by 50%? No one you love will be disappeared, but 50% of the rest will be disappeared.
BREAKING! Meta releasing image generator
Amazon employees are worried about layoffs. Boz is worried about soccer. Google still measures speed of coding in 2026 My Meta Layoff Destroyed My Belief That Hard Work Pays Off You can tell how good an engineer is based just off what year they got their offer
Prediction: China will beat the US at AI
US is ahead at the moment, but only by 3-4 months (GLM 5.2 is roughly where Opus 4.8 / GPT 5.5 was). White House is purposefully hindering models from releasing their latest versions. That’s only going to let the Chinese model labs catch up even more. Congress is blocking Nvidia from selling chips to China. That gives tremendous incentive to make sure Huawei will be competitive.
Anthropic and OpenAI have no moat
Anthropic and OpenAI have no moat Chinese open source models are only 6 months behind the frontier models. I doubt these OpenAI and Anthropic valuations will last for long. AI is here to stay no doubt and I love ai. But the valuations of Anthropic and OpenAI are a huge bubble waiting to be popped. #anthropic #openai
Gemini is really really really sucks
Gemini is really really really sucks Is it just me or anyone feels the same way? They had a promotion to try for 4.99$ a month, so I did it and now I want my money back 😂. They are not even a competitor for Claude. Not even close! @google does your team even use this product? How can you even stand how buggy this shit is?
Min time at a company before quitting
Min time at a company before quitting That does not look “bad” TC: 450K excluding equity Yoe: 21 Select only one answer ...View Result
Feeling a bit isolated due to my TC and not sure who to talk to about this
Feeling a bit isolated due to my TC and not sure who to talk to about this After grinding for the last 12+ years (last 4+ at Databricks), and Databricks stock doubling this past year, my TC now sits at $2.5M+. I know I should be happy but honestly it feels surreal and kind of isolating? Like I can’t talk to anyone in my life about it without it being weird. Has anyone else felt like high TC actually makes things harder in some ways?
Got a new boss, want to quit but make too much $$
Got a new boss from a much bigger / older company (not FAANG, think giant enterprise software). He’s good but I am really not vibing with him. He keeps coming up with ideas to drive team performance so he can look good, and many of the ideas are more about how we can take more credit for the work we do. Driving me a little crazy for some reason. Anyway, I’ve been at Databricks >4 years and started to get really sick of it. I never really liked the workplace culture but stuck it out.
BREAKING Wall Street warns us stock market will crash soon
>Billionaire Ken Griffin recently warned that a recession would be inevitable if the Strait of Hormuz (a key oil transit route) remains closed for another six to 12 months. Both Iran and the US declared it open as recently as a few hours ago so….
Did I mess up in my 20s?
Once I hit SWE2 I job hopped a few times to get higher TC… but never grew in my career. I only worked 35-40 hours a week and enjoyed life. Looking back I’m not sure if it was the right decision sometimes because I never got promoted at Amazon and my peers who I graduated with are already senior/staff engineers at FANG. I only joined Amazon because my other “better” offers all froze hiring in 2022. I always wonder what would’ve happened if I just joined Google or meta instead and had good managers.
Anthropic is no longer a tier 1 company
You're kinda right. It's great for people already in but newbies not so much. Still better than most faang though.
Do you wish you had no kids? Be honest
Do you wish you had no kids? Be honest Without lying to yourself… Select only one answer ...View Result
BREAKING 🚨New mandate: Anyone in the tech industry who has a complaint to post must first work for a week in a coal mine
BREAKING 🚨New mandate: Anyone in the tech industry who has a complaint to post must first work for a week in a coal mine Only after working 12 hours a day for a week (no, you do not get weekends off) mining coal will you be permitted to complain that you only got a 2% raise this year. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Big Tech Hiring Collapse: Google down -81%, Meta -67%, overall FAANG hiring down 54%
Newmobiuse Data Source: Job postings from Google, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, and Netflix extracted from BigQuery jobs database. Compares equivalent ~75-day periods year-over-year (same calendar window in 2025 vs 2026). Only includes positions with salaries ≥$80,000 to focus on professional/technical roles.
Best Paid Companies To Work For? Worst? | Tech Industry - Blind
Just wanted to see if I was missing any but Anthropic, NVIDIA and OpenAI should be some of the best compensated engineers in the market right now right? I imagine google is close behind. What are the best and worst compensated tech companies to work for? Want to gather from folks on Blind. Personally I'm not too savvy on how everyone in all the differnet companies gets paid so would love to hear from the experts on Blind.
Block layoff is the canary
Whether real or not, Dorsey got rid of 40% of the company today due to advancement in AI coding (close to 50% of the company if you account for the performance based layoff last month) Next couple of years are going to be even worse for FinTech/SaaS companies than what has been in the past few years. Other investors are going to question their boards if Block can operate at 50% due to AI, why can't you? Housing in places like the bay area and Seattle are going to see strong head winds due to this.
Career Break (in this economy?!)
I’ve been seriously considering taking a career break (quit) with no job lined up. I got a new manager who is very toxic, and I dread every 1:1 with my manager. I talked to my skip and can’t transfer teams. (My skip thinks my manager is fine…different story. My skip is well aware that I do not get along with my current manager.) I have no motivation to work, but I’m unable to slack off because my work is quite visible, and I also do not have it in me to quiet quit/screw over my teammates.
America is insane and stupid | Tech Industry - Blind
America is insane and stupid In an given city there are thousands of restaurants where you can pay to stuff your face with greasy slop food any time you want but almost no places where you can engage in healthy activities like community building where you can hang out and meet new people or play recreational sports just by dropping in
I am not MAGA. But Elon Musk is the greatest entrepreneur in history, hands down | Tech Industry - Blind
I am not MAGA. But Elon Musk is the greatest entrepreneur in history, hands down He founded or led 4 companies worth >$100B. 3 are worth >$1T. Changed the world 3 times over - car market, space exploration, and AI. Entirely self made. Say what you will about his politics, but his accomplishments in business and tech are undeniable. Select only one answer ...View Result
Anthropic cuts ai productivity forecasts in half after real world failure rates in Claude
The issue is that complex tasks have many, many steps to get right. Imagine if your AI is so good, that it’s right 90% of the time on any given action (way above current benchmarks). That means humans can be replaced, right? Well any actual work task (like finding information about a project and writing a slide) consists of dozens of actions (open your email, copy paste into a Google sheet, do a search, find relevant link, etc etc).
Which Tech Companies Were the Biggest Winners of 2025
Which Tech Companies Were the Biggest Winners of 2025 Who were the biggest winners of 2025? Posted this earlier but forgot to include Meta The top voted would be the companies that have grown, progressed, evolved in 2025 The bottom of the list would represent companies that have stagnated, failed, challenged in 2025. Would love to hear your thoughts on opinions on each too! Feel free to comment any unlisted companies Select only one answer ...View Result
Even being employee #2 is no good at a startup
lol you know what you signed up for ๐ Its not like he was promised in writing x and someone fraudulently gave him y instead. Read the fuckin documents next time and understand what you are signing up for or pay 100 bucks and let a lawyer explain to you if they are legal topics outside your skillset.
Netflix Engineering is overrated
Why is Netflix engineering team so highly praised? They haven’t diversified their revenue streams outside of streaming movies and tv which is a solved problem for at least 10 years. All their new in-house movie and tv shows are teen bait DEI slop. They lost the battle against Apple for high quality shows and movies. They flopped at live sports and now Amazon is the industry leader for sport streaming. They aren’t innovating on AI or hardware like other top tier tech companies.
Snowflake fucked me over today
I bought call options on the stock ahead of earnings because Databricks has been absolutely killing it this past quarter. Even the products that directly compete with Snowflake has been accelerating in growth basically every month for the past 6 months. I thought surely that means Snowflake is doing well too, so I put in a meaningful chunk of my portfolio into calls thinking I could make a quick buck. Unfortunately, SNOWFLAKE IS SUCH A PIECE OF SHIT COMPANY their stock is DOWN 8% after hours.
Claude Opus 4.5 just coded like 30000 lines of perfect code
The sad part is that i really really really tried to use it because everyone is saying it's amazing but it fucks up on subtle things.. i have to spend time figuring out what it fd up on which is slow. But yeah right now i do not trust it for production
Figma IPO Valuation | Tech Industry - Blind
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