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american optimist . programmer

[dt. @itsdtoki]

https://t.co/6ptcgt1wO8

[dt. @itsdtoki]

honestly sometimes i be forgetting i’ve also got this music thing in the bag 🎒

[Joe @JoePostingg]

Printers never work because they are an affront to God. Man was not meant to pull objects from the digital realm into the real world. Icarus is flying too close to the sun.

[Francis Fukuyama @FukuyamaFrancis]

The Myth of Authoritarian Efficiency https://t.co/GeN1TPGZwR

[dt. @itsdtoki]

cherry on top @DavidSHolz is 🇨🇦🇨🇦

[dt. @itsdtoki]

this is the future we were promised

[Julia Turc @juliarturc]

Rocket company makes IDEs and image gen company makes medical scanners

[mattparlmer 🪐 🌷 @mattparlmer]

I’m tearing up man, holy shit, at this resolution they’re gonna be able to pinpoint basically any tumor

[dt. @itsdtoki]

this is the future we were promised

[Midjourney @midjourney]

Announcing a new division of Midjourney called "Midjourney Medical"

[Mofiyinfoluwa Odubanke. @__mofiyinfoluwa]

i remain absolutely stunned by the degree of perseverance needed to build a meaningful life

[Ok, Jose @JoseRMejia]

it’s simple, really

[Unreal Engine @UnrealEngine]

Unreal Engine 5.8 ships today with experimental MCP server support:

Your sources, your pipeline and your workflow—simply configure the MCP plugin and connect to any agent. Get familiar with the MCP server and the PCG Primitive Plugin today and see what teams can build together: https://t.co/cDITLWWv2F

[Build Canada @build_canada]

Canadians have built tech empires. But most didn't do it at home. ✈️

@Uber, @Cloudflare, @OpenAI, @AnthropicAI - all co-founded by 🇨🇦's who went on to build their businesses in the 🇺🇸.

Add on foreign nationals who attended Canadian universities, you get @Instacart, @Tesla, @moderna_tx, @NotionHQ. 🎓

Founders of all these companies slipped through our national grasp.

[ein @stylishdawg]

one thing they don’t tell you in software engineer school is that you’re gonna fumble generational wealth like 10 times and you just gotta learn to thug it out

[R(R) @real1800splurge]

somewhere in your 20s or 30s you’ll get the opportunity to rebuild your life after a negative loop. its very important that you see that journey through

[roon @tszzl]

it’s starting to feel like end of evangelion again

[Roy @usr_bin_roygbiv]

BREAKING: The United States government has BANNED the export of three.js demo webpages

[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.