Sebastien Simon

IT Solution Architect. Tweets and opinions held are my own. // mes propos m'appartiennent et n'engagent que moi.

[Khairallah AL-Awady @eng_khairallah1]

The person who built Claude Code just showed exactly how to use it.

30 minutes. Free. Straight from Boris Cherny himself.

Bookmark this before you forget.

Most people using Claude daily are missing 40+ features hiding in plain sight.

This single session is worth more than any $1000 course.

[Sebastien Simon @SimonSebsim]

@Amockx2022 @grok quelles sont les sources ?

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the VP of Workforce Economics at Oracle. We are worth $420 billion.

On Tuesday, we sent 30,000 employees a termination email at 6 AM.

Not 9. Not business hours. Six in the morning. They woke up to the word "eliminated."

The email came from "Oracle Leadership." Not a manager. Not a name. Oracle Leadership.

It said: "We are grateful for your dedication, hard work, and the impact you have made."

By the time they read the word "grateful," their access to email, files, and Slack had already been revoked. The gratitude was the last Oracle communication they received.

We did not eliminate the roles. We eliminated the salaries.

In the same fiscal year, we filed 3,126 H-1B petitions to hire foreign workers. 436 this year alone. The roles are identical. The pay is not.

An H-1B software engineer earns $87,000. The domestic median for the same work is $106,000. Eighty-three percent of H-1B workers are classified at entry-level wages for senior positions.

The industry calls this a skills gap. It is a pay cut that requires a passport.

The visa is tied to the employer. If the worker leaves, they lose their legal right to remain in the country. If they negotiate, they risk the same. If they organize, the sponsor declines to renew.

That is retention.

Our revenue this quarter is $17.2 billion. Up 22%. Net income up 95%. We have $553 billion in committed future contracts. Up 325%.

These are not the numbers of a company that needs to lay anyone off.

We took a $2.1 billion restructuring charge. That is the cost of the gratitude. It frees up $8 to $10 billion in annual cash flow. That cash services $156 billion in AI data centers we are building. Starting 2028, OpenAI pays us $82 million per day.

Larry Ellison is worth $189 billion. He pledged $51 billion in Oracle shares as collateral for the Stargate AI venture. Announced at the White House.

The stock rose 4% on Tuesday. The day of the 6 AM emails. Wall Street did not see 30,000 people. They saw the margin.

Amazon laid off 30,000 since October. Filed thousands of H-1B petitions in the same window. This is not one company. This is the operating model.

Fire the salary. Keep the role. Fill it with someone whose legal right to remain in the country depends on your continued sponsorship. Pay them less. They will not complain. They cannot.

One employee's father worked at Oracle for 20 years. No phone call. No meeting. An email at 6 AM and a locked laptop.

The role is still open.

The people we fired are free. The people we hired are not.

[Sebastien Simon @SimonSebsim]

@Scavino47 @WhiteHouse Ce rituel est choquant. Et pas représentatif des americains . Mais plutôt d’une secte autour de son Guru ! Mais qui est le vrai Guru ? Trump ou Paula White ? …

[Ruben @rdominguezibar]

🚨 Oracle just announced 30,000 layoffs. The biggest single tech layoff in the last 12 months
To put that in context:

▫️ Oracle: 30,000 (today)
▫️ Intel: 25,000 (Apr 2025)
▫️ Amazon: 16,000 (Jan 2026)
▫️ Microsoft: 9,000 (Jul 2025)
▫️ Block: 4,000 (Feb 2026)

That's 80,000+ jobs gone across just five companies in under a year.

AI efficiency or something else going on at Oracle?

[Sebastien Simon @SimonSebsim]

@LeoDuffOff J’hallucine sur les commentaires de cette vidéo. Le sujet est inquiétant, nos usages explosent et l’eau n’est qu’une partie du problème. La consommation en électricité=> nucléaire, besoins en GPU=> terres rares. Nos prompts IA vont accélérer le déclin de la vie sur cette planète

[Léo Duff @LeoDuffOff]

L’IA prétend sauver l’humanité, mais en réalité, elle l’assèche.

Voici comment ChatGPT assoiffe des populations. https://t.co/nXb1iAKBcZ

[Les Makers @lesmakers_fr]

Cet immigrant arrive aux USA avec 500$ en poche.

Il voit des ouvriers épuisés, dopés aux boissons sucrées.

Alors il crée une alternative minuscule… mais PUISSANTE.

Red Bull rigole.
Monster l’ignore.

Mais ils n’ont rien vu venir... cet immigrant allait tous les pulvériser :

[Opti_Matt @Opti_Matt]

Google Maps vient de bénéficier d'une MISE À JOUR MASSIVE.

Désormais, vous pouvez utiliser l'IA dans vos Google Maps.

Voici 6 fonctionnalités à ne pas manquer :↓

[Sebastien Simon @SimonSebsim]

@profduweb Félicitations , keep going !

[Nico Popy @nicolaspopy]

Je ne vais jamais m'en lasser ...

#HamsterinmyAss #DepecheAFP #Armageddon

[Libération @libe]

Alexeï Navalny, ennemi numéro 1 du régime, menait depuis une quinzaine d’années son combat contre le président russe. Il s’était bâti une notoriété 2.0, avec la diffusion d’enquêtes vidéo virales dénonçant la corruption du pouvoir.

En savoir plus : https://t.co/3I1b9RY23F

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

Alexei Navalny was asked what his message would be to people if he was killed.

His response from the Academy Award winning documentary about him directed by @DanielRoher

[CERT-FR @CERT_FR]

🚨 Alerte CERT-FR 🚨

CERTFR-2024-ALE-004: Fortinet FortiOS

Vulnérabilité CVE-2024-21762, affectant le VPN SSL de FortiOS, permet une exécution de code arbitraire à distance. L'éditeur indique que la vulnérabilité serait potentiellement exploitée.

https://t.co/8lJcPBj3u5

[Sebastien Simon @SimonSebsim]

@LeoDuffOff Merci pour cette vidéo, le point de vue est très intéressant .

[🇫🇷 fred le gaulois 🇫🇷 Uniondesdroites 🐱🐱 @FredGaulois]

🗣️agriculteurs sur la 📈 des frais des députés : ils sont capables de prendre des décis& rapidemt mais pour eux, ce ne sont plus des politiq mais des gens qui se remplisst leurs poches et qui sont en train d'enfoncer les producteurs.
Paris on va y aller mais encore + déterminés

[Sebastien Simon @SimonSebsim]

A suivre en 2024 … ou se préparer à fuir VMware du côté des Service Providers .

[CRN @CRN]

.@Broadcom says it is terminating all of its partner agreements with @VMware resellers and service providers, killing VMware’s partner program and sales incentives, and then forcing existing partners to reapply for their roles.

https://t.co/xmQElTK3xE