Jack

[ginger spice @chloefor3]

true

[doomer @uncledoomer]

anyone who has ever built anything can tell you that theres a point in the development cycle where the sunk costs become too great, and the entire org chart starts walking on eggshells around an exec who is too tunneled in to realize his product sucks

[⚰︎ @vamperignon]

@coldhealing @FuckedUpYogis You need to have negative IQ and have NOTHING of your own in life spiritually to find this anyhow relevant. I find it straight up sad that at least 100,000 people agree with this encounter being a thing at all

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Mayor Frey at George Floyd's casket

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

@deedydas Not a knock on you because you’re just describing a very specific group of people in a very specific place but my god what a pathetic post about a pathetic group of people. Someone should smack these people and tell them to shut the fuck up

[Jack @JackAttack97]

@deedydas Word up, making a penny less than $500k/yr is devastating. Keeping these people in my prayers tn.

[Deedy @deedydas]

The vibes in SF feel pretty frenetic right now. The divide in outcomes is the worst I've ever seen.

Over the last 5yrs, a group of ~10k people - employees at Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Nvidia, Meta TBD, founders - have hit retirement wealth of well above $20M (back of the envelope AI estimation).

Everyone outside that group feels like they can work their well-paying (but <$500k) job for their whole life and never get there.

Worse yet, layoffs are in full swing. Many software engineers feel like their life's skill is no longer useful. The day to day role of most jobs has changed overnight with AI.

As a result,
1. The corporate ladder looks like the wrong building to climb.
Everyone's trying to align with a new set of career "paths": should I be a founder? Is it too late to join Anthropic / OpenAI? should I get into AI? what company stock will 10x next? People are demanding higher salaries and switching jobs more and more.

2. There’s a deep malaise about work (and its future).
Why even work at all for “peanuts”? Will my job even exist in a few years? Many feel helpless. You hear the “permanent underclass” conversation a lot, esp from young people. It's hard to focus on doing good work when you think "man, if I joined Anthropic 2yrs ago, I could retire"

3. The mid to late middle managers feel paralyzed.
Many have families and don't feel like they have the energy or network to just "start a company". They don't particularly have any AI skills. They see the writing on the wall: middle management is being hollowed out in many companies.

4. The rich aren’t particularly happy either.
No one is shedding tears for them (and rightfully so). But those who have "made it" experience a profound lack of purpose too. Some have gone from <$150k to >$50M in a few years with no ramp. It flips your life plans upside down. For some, comparison is the thief of joy. For some, they escape to NYC to "live life". For others still, they start companies "just cuz", often to win status points. They never imagined that by age 30, they'd be set. I once asked a post-economic founder friend why they didn't just sell the co and they said "and do what? right now, everyone wants to talk to me. if i sell, I will only have money."

I understand that many reading this scoff at the champagne problems of the valley. Society is warped in this tech bubble. What is often well-off anywhere else in the world is bang average here.

Unlike many other places, tenure, intelligence and hard work can be loosely correlated with outcomes in the Bay. Living through a societally transformative gold rush in that environment can be paralyzing. "Am I in the right place? Should I move? Is there time still left? Am I gonna make it?" It psychologically torments many who have moved here in search of "success".

Ironically, a frequent side effect of this torment is to spin up the very products making everyone rich in hopes that you too can vibecode your path to economic enlightenment.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

130k tech layoffs year-to-date.

Insane.

[Jack @JackAttack97]

@The_MegaWhale @LordCharizard33 They’re not fighting over cards. They’re fighting over potentially huge payouts from scalping.

[Shannon @shannonplante]

They are not going to share wealth with you just for letting them replace you with robots.

They do not care if you die, they actually are planning for it.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

His net worth is over $200,000,000,000 and he is making 8,000 people redundant.

This is what’s wrong with society.

[Jack @JackAttack97]

@Dexerto Excellent use of the world's limited resources 👏🏻 We really are building a better future for our children.

[The Random Recruiter @randomrecruiter]

How it feels asking your manager, as a grown adult, if you can use your own PTO days that you earned

[Jack @JackAttack97]

@robot @dbrand still waiting...

[Jack @JackAttack97]

@greg16676935420 How many times am I gonna get this recycled ass post on my feed

[Jack @JackAttack97]

@1ssve Nothing on LinkedIn is genuine.

[banteg @banteg]

anthropic running the exact same marketing playbook with every release. “our model is so capable and dangerous, ahh we are afraid to release it”. just put the model in the bag lil bro.

[Jack @JackAttack97]

@jasonoliver Spot on

[Rita Powell @Rizabellepow]

If he’s openly abusive in public with the cameras on, imagine what he’s like at home.

[Lucash @justlucash]

@Dexerto cheaper = ads 😭