Amazon is laying off 14,000 employees, including in India, as AI takes over their roles.
The cruel part is how fragile private sector “stability” is. You get a job, start earning, feel settled, plan a future, buy a house on EMI, and one fine morning the company decides to “downsize”. Suddenly, you’re jobless. If a new job doesn’t come quickly, those EMIs can destroy your peace and your life.
And the govt! While you earn, you must pay taxes. The moment you lose your job, you’re on your own. Farmers get compensation when crops fail, despite many paying zero income tax, but a taxpayer losing his job gets practically nothing.
Maybe it's time to introduce reforms like make EMI pauses for few months more liberal for those who lose their jobs, and providing a time-bound monthly allowance for few months from the govt, except for disciplinary cases of course. Ladla/Ladlis can get free money, free ration, free water and electricity, so why not support a worker who has been paying taxes and contributing?
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Why are AI researchers so hard to find? Why are they so highly paid?
To try to answer this, let’s rewind back to something from the Carnegie Mellon PhD program.
At Carnegie Mellon's PhD program, there's a legendary oral exam question that's deceptively simple: "What happens when you type https://t.co/2AVaLkylgY into a browser?"
It's a masterpiece of pedagogical design. You can spend hours traversing the stack—from keypress interrupts to browser event loops, DNS resolution to TCP handshakes, TLS negotiation to HTTP parsing, CDN routing to datacenter load balancing, all the way down to electrons moving through silicon.
The beauty is its fractal nature. Each layer reveals another universe of complexity. A strong engineer can navigate these depths, moving fluidly between abstraction levels.
Now consider the equivalent question for our current moment: "What happens when you type a prompt into GPT-5?"
I estimate fewer than 500 people globally can answer this with comparable depth.
Think about what comprehensive understanding requires: transformer architecture internals, attention mechanisms at scale, distributed training orchestration across thousands of GPUs, RLHF implementation details, constitutional AI approaches, inference optimization, quantization trade-offs, not to mention the labyrinthine data pipelines and evaluation frameworks.
Unlike traditional systems—which evolved over decades with extensive documentation, courses, and industry knowledge transfer—the modern LLM stack emerged in just a few years within a handful of organizations.
The field is simultaneously too new and too vertically integrated.
The people who truly understand these systems end-to-end are essentially the early engineers at a small set of frontier labs: OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Meta's FAIR, and a few others.
This explains the talent market dynamics. When the total addressable pool of people who can architect and debug these systems is smaller than a single Bay Area high school, the economics become inevitable.
🚨 HUGE statement by Arnab Goswami.
"The Congress government in Karnataka sent policemen to my house around noon today in civil clothes."
"I will never change my line on the Nation and Nationalism."
Protect this man with his microphone!
Every word of this should be heard. Plain and simple English. If you still don’t get it, your parents are probably sister and brother😤🤮
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- CNN anchor uses the term "Indian-administered Kashmir" for J&K.
- Indian Ambassador to the USA, Vinay Kwatra: Let me correct you; the entire J&K is an integral part of India. The only issue is Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. 👏🏻
Can I just say - absolute respect for our air defence forces across the board. They’ve been nothing short of spectacular in the number of intercepts. AD is something that’s never gotten its due recognition- let’s change that this time.
Such advisories are part of India's psy-ops intended to mislead the adversary and sow confusion in their ranks. In that context, why is there a need for an Indian fact-checker to scrutinize and debunk them?
When your tweets become national headlines…! On April 6, 2024, I predicted the difficult times that would begin between Pakistan and India in April 2025. A significant area, including parts of PoK, will be reclaimed. Jai Mahakaal🙏🏻🕉️