liontomic

Web3 SWE at @google. Opinions are my own

[liontomic @liontomic]

#DCAChallenge

Starting a DCA challenge... Will be posting positions soon
最近煩了，看到周圍的人天天賺麻，操作又比不過他們，只能回歸老本行來開個 DCA 紀錄一下

[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.

[liontomic @liontomic]

@shawnchen_eth 說好的聖誕行情呢？說好的降習呢？

[haeju.eth @JeongHaeju]

A Google insider has officially been exposed on Polymarket.

This dude just profited $1,000,000 in a single day betting on the Google search markets.

Google accidentally pushed the results early, then removed them, but not before it revealed he went 22/23 on his bets and ballooned to $3.9M in open positions.

This isn’t a lucky streak. He previously made $150K+ predicting the early release of Gemini 3.0 before results were out.

At this point it’s obvious: He’s a Google insider milking Polymarket for quick money.

It’s one of the wildest things I’ve seen on the platform

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

🤣🤣🤣

[Tyler Strejilevich @TylerSCrypto]

how it feels to spend 8 hours a day watching your networth evaporate

[liontomic @liontomic]

@0xSiuwawa 我的感覺是還說只能塞大餅eth, 畢竟確實是有institution 在build. 至於其他山寨可能終究是要歸零，穿越不了週期

。。雖然eth這輪表現的跟狗屎一樣就是了

[liontomic @liontomic]

@0xSiuwawa @asmussen520 然後就沒了

[liontomic @liontomic]

@0xRay518 卧槽 你们都在哪个群，能不能带带我

[liontomic @liontomic]

@0xSiuwawa 推，不像一堆人看漲說漲看跌說跌

[liontomic @liontomic]

@shawnchen_eth All in BTC!

[liontomic @liontomic]

@MaxCryptoSpace 那張我還沒申，要放250k 才有4%感覺不值

[liontomic @liontomic]

Now CT is finally flipping bear I think it's time to go long.

#btc #eth

[liontomic @liontomic]

@nooob_ape 牛逼

[liontomic @liontomic]

lol wtf is this shit

[liontomic @liontomic]

wtf just happened

[liontomic @liontomic]

@blknoiz06 Tilted

[liontomic @liontomic]

Bruh wanted to play when market is down and I can't even do that

[Battlefield @Battlefield]

Installation of Content Issue on EA App

We're actively investigating an issue where some players on the EA App are encountering an error stating they need to purchase DLC to play. Resolving this is the top of our priority.

The team believes we have found the cause for this issue, and are in the process of validating a potential fix and will provide an update when we have it.

Thank you for your patience and understanding as we work through this.

We are doing everything we can to get those players affected in as soon as possible.

[liontomic @liontomic]

lol wtf is this shit