I'm not gonna lie, the @Meta layoffs are some of the most dystopian I've ever seen. They got told to work from home, they were sent the emails at 4AM in the morning. Those who weren't impacted have software on their computer that tracks their every move, preparing AI to take their job as well. They're literally training the AI that will eliminate their position as well.
Meanwhile, Meta is raking in RECORD PROFITS.
I am a massive, unapologetic AI enthusiast. Yet, this is NOT the future I had in mind.
I wish for Meta to crash and burn. This is not the way. Literally nobody benefits from this.
I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out.
I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really).
It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely.
The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture.
We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.
I worry.
Coinbase’s CEO lays off a ton of employees and says:
“Non-technical teams are now pushing code to production with AI”
less than 24 hours later:
coinbase’s trading engine goes down and somehow even the status page breaks too
Started to play riftbound recently, really liking it, different vibes from the other TCGs, hope they will continue to support it and improve the artworks
Introducing: built-in git worktree support for Claude Code
Now, agents can run in parallel without interfering with one other. Each agent gets its own worktree and can work independently.
The Claude Code Desktop app has had built-in support for worktrees for a while, and now we're bringing it to CLI too.
Learn more about worktrees: https://t.co/JFkD2DrAmT
Senior ML Engineer
Milan vs Berlin
Salary 2x more in Berlin
If Europe is cooked then Italy is competely burned
PS: don't tell me the cost of living is also 2x
Just remember guys are spending $1000s on Mac Minis to spin up an "AI Agent" to vibe code basic front ends with basic databases so they can pretend online that they have an AI software company that has $0 in revenue and 0 customers.
Last week I spent $20,000 on Mac Studios so I could run OpenClaw locally
Fully powered by local AI models running 24/7
Now my agent:
• Is doing tasks 24/7/365
• Doesn't cost any tokens
• Is fully private
In this video I cover how it works and how you can do the same thing:
I am Tibo and I have an incredible team. Codex would not exist without them and they cooked.
Enjoy the new Codex app, access through your free/go ChatGPT plan and 2X rate limits on other plans. Can't wait to hear what you do with it.
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