Hey, real talk —
I still have a job. For now. But lowkey I'm just... waiting for the Slack message that ends it all.
As a software engineer, I genuinely don't know if I'm next in line to get replaced by AI. Like, it keeps me up at night but I don't really talk about it.
So I did what any anxious dev would do — I spent 12 hours building a little app. It's basically a daily check-in. You sign in, you prove you're still here, still employed, still human. We hype each other up a little. It's kinda cringe, I know.
But there's one feature I actually built with dead seriousness:
If you miss two days in a row, the app automatically emails someone you trust — a friend, a partner, whoever — and says: "Hey, they might be going through it. Go check on them."
No grand reason. Just... sometimes the anxiety is loud and the words don't come out.
If you're out here grinding quietly, feeling like you're the only one holding it together — maybe this is your sign to check in.
https://t.co/9Es9ZfwFgx
(looking for my people 🙏)
Stratechery 发了一篇《A Script for Mark Zuckerberg》,给扎克伯格拟了一份 Meta 下一次财报电话会议应该照着念的稿子。核心动作只有一个: 承认过去一年 AI 资本开支的节奏和叙事都出了问题, 重新给市场一个可信的边界。
Ben Thompson 的判断很硬: Meta 的 AI 支出已经到了必须向股东正面解释的阶段, 而不是继续用"长期主义"含糊过去。财报会不是路演, 投资人要的是数字口径、时间表、和哪些项目会被砍。
一家公司走到需要外部专栏替 CEO 写稿的时刻, 说明沟通本身已经是风险敞口。