Adham

Building software symphonies.

[Real Madrid C.F. @realmadrid]

👋 ¡Bienvenido, Mourinho! 👋

[Jenni @hashjenni]

Fun fact. For the 1966 World Cup, England debated denying visas for North Korea. FIFA responded that if any players from any teams were denied visas,they would relocate the World Cup, even at the last minute.

[Adham @adhammkhaled]

الحمدلله

[Adham @adhammkhaled]

Life peaked fr

[Adham @adhammkhaled]

فارد ضهري مش بنحني
انت كلامكم ولا هزني

[Adham @adhammkhaled]

ازاي بتنسى ليالي ليالي؟
وانت اللي كل ليلة على بالي
حبك هازمني لسة ملازمني
صعبان حبيبي حالي على حالي

[Dr. Shak🩺 @realbig_shak]

There’s no living human that has more fans than Cristiano Ronaldo. None.

[َ @rmngifs]

absolute cinema

[Wivo @WivoRN]

رونالدو بيعيط.. الحقوني.. انقذوني.. ارجوكم مش قادر اتنفس..

يا الله دي أعظم فرحة في التاريخ.. يامنت كريم يا الله

[Ahmed @AhmedNabilRm1]

كأنّ الزمن يعتذر أحيانًا، فيهدي الصابرين ما تمنّوه طويلًا.

[Madrid Xtra @MadridXtra]

Unfinished business.

[Ahmed Mohammed @MiDooRF]

مدربي المفضل رجع يدرب فريقي المفضل ، الكورة لسه لعبة جميلة والله

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨 BREAKING: José Mourinho back to Real Madrid, HERE WE GO! 💣🤍

All terms have been verbally agreed between José Mourinho and Real Madrid, waiting to sign all documents.

Plan for initial two year deal, JM to travel to Madrid after Real-Bilbao game.

The Special One is back.

[Martien 🇳🇱 @MartienBall]

You’re lying if you say you won’t be invested in Real Madrid and La Liga next season with Jose Mourinho involved. It will be pure entertainment 😭

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

There will be no AI jobpocalypse.

The story that AI will lead to massive unemployment is stoking unnecessary fear. AI — like any other technology — does affect jobs, but telling overblown stories of large-scale unemployment is irresponsible and damaging. Let’s put a stop to it.

I’ve expressed skepticism about the jobpocalypse in previous posts. I’m glad to see that the popular press is now pushing back on this narrative. The image below features some recent headlines.

Software engineering is the sector most affected by AI tools, as coding agents race ahead. Yet hiring of software engineers remains strong! So while there are examples of AI taking away jobs, the trends strongly suggest the net job creation is vastly greater than the job destruction — just like earlier waves of technology. Further, despite all the exciting progress in AI, the U.S. unemployment rate remains a healthy 4.3%.

Why is the AI jobpocalypse narrative so popular? For one thing, frontier AI labs have a strong incentive to tell stories that make AI technology sound more powerful. At their most extreme, they promote science-fiction scenarios of AI “taking over” and causing human extinction. If a technology can replace many employees, surely that technology must be very valuable!

Also, a lot of SaaS software companies charge around $100-$1000 per user/year. But if an AI company can replace an employee who makes $100,000 — or make them 50% more productive — then charging even $10,000 starts to look reasonable. By anchoring not to typical SaaS prices but to salaries of employees, AI companies can charge a lot more.

Additionally, businesses have a strong incentive to talk about layoffs as if they were caused by AI. After all, talking about how they’re using AI to be far more productive with fewer staff makes them look smart. This is a better message than admitting they overhired during the pandemic when capital was abundant due to low interest rates and a massive government financial stimulus.

To be clear, I recognize that AI is causing a lot of people’s work to change. This is hard. This is stressful. (And to some, it can be fun.) I empathize with everyone affected. At the same time, this is very different from predicting a collapse of the job market.

Societies are capable of telling themselves stories for years that have little basis in reality and lead to poor society-wide decision making. For example, fears over nuclear plant safety led to under-investment in nuclear power. Fears of the “population bomb” in the 1960s led countries to implement harsh policies to reduce their populations. And worries about dietary fat led governments to promote unhealthy high-sugar diets for decades.

Now that mainstream media is openly skeptical about the jobpocalypse, I hope these stories will start to lose their teeth (much like fears of AI-driven human extinction have).

Contrary to the predictions of an AI jobpocalypse, I predict the opposite: There will be an AI jobapalooza! AI will lead to a lot more good AI engineering jobs, and I’m also optimistic about the future of the overall job market. What AI engineers do will be different from traditional software engineering, and many of these jobs will be in businesses other than traditional large employers of developers. In non-AI roles, too, the skills needed will change because of AI. That makes this a good time to encourage more people to become proficient in AI, and make sure they’re ready for the different but plentiful jobs of the future!

[Original text in The Batch newsletter.]

[MadridistaTV @madridistatvYT]

We threw an entire project away because one player didn’t have the IQ required to follow Xabi Alonso‘s tactics.

[Adham @adhammkhaled]

لو على اللي فات بس انسيه
نار الفراق هتنسيه
المرة دي مش همشي
هنرجع سوا

[مروان يكن @IConstantine]

هي الناس الي بتقارن سعر شقة قسط على ١٥ سنة في بلد فايدة الاقتراض فيها ٢٠٪ سنويا و سعر بيت كاش حاليا في بلد تاني

كان ناقصهم ايه في التعليم عشان ميوصلوش للمستوى ده

[Pavel Durov @durov]

WhatsApp’s “encryption” may be the biggest consumer fraud in history — deceiving billions of users. Despite its claims, it reads users’ messages and shares them with third parties. Telegram has never done this — and never will 🤝

[Kareem Medhat @kareem_medhat]

بصراحة حاجة تدعو للتأمل في سلوك الانسان باختلاف الاماكن و الظروف في العالم العجيب دا

قد ايه ردة فعل البشر لتهديد وشيك لحياتهم ممكن تكون مختلفة.

ناس ممكن تاخد المـ.وت بالحضن لمجرد فكرة أو قناعة، و ناس هيحفروا النفق تحت النفق بحثاً عن النجاة حتى لو اتحولت حياتهم لمجرد محاولة طويلة للفرار من المـ.وت.