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Cooking AI

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@NewsLambert @ResidentialClub Because Santa Clara county is too far from the AI jobs in SF where typically demand 3 -5 days in office, while the layoff of big tech - concentrated in Santa Clara county is getting worse

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@HelloVyom Because Chinese company pay them USD in China which cost of living is 1/5

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@mukund You might want to check your math

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@empathyx100 @atmoio Pure people manager will definitely not survived. A long long time ago when I was at this FAANG company (start with A), I had this manager who’s not technical at all, when I didnt want to work I just bs on the complexity of my works and gave 3x estimation and he had no clue.

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@CherrilynnZ Cupertino

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@ftr_investors NBIS is a tech company whereas IREN is a bubble company

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@Redbeeea 2 or 3

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@petergyang The problem is family who make 500k+ are still not able to have a decent quality of life if they want to own a home, raise kids, not talking about fancy big houses or private schools. Mentality shift don’t solve the reality. Bay Area is only survivable for duel tech income fam

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@lynk0x I like the option of working a $500,000/yr job I love

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@BartronPolygon @zuhayeer @Levelsfyi Isn’t it the case for every major city in western, northern Europe.

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@deciblast @zuhayeer @Levelsfyi Berkeley is expensive and Oakland is inhabitable

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@BartronPolygon @zuhayeer @Levelsfyi What’s the reason?

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@pepemoonboy @IncomeSharks They can achieve the same with 5% of their capex spending, you don’t need to build frontier model to solve ads, recommendation problems. They spent that much money on AI because Mark’s ego and market is penalizing them

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@antibearthesis So the fundamental doesn’t matter, brand value does. Almost All of my friends use Robinhood, but I’ve never heard anyone use SoFi

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@evanjconrad It won’t collapse just won’t grow to the full potential it can, and that’s fine, tech will find other cities like it always did

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@vulturetrades Let’s do it

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@aaditsh There are probably 50 better companies than meta and Microsoft’s

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@ryanhdev @techNmak That’s a bit discouraging, I was a normal software engineer without top 10 CS degrees, not even top 30 nor a PhD. I learned most of the things on X, random blogs and was able clear senior AI Eng role in multiple FANNGs and equivalent

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@techNmak 6. If you are a good engineer who know how to build Agentic system, have creative way to generate data, think evaluation, have strong software engineering expertise, excellent comm skills with stakeholders. It’s a perfectly fine career as well.

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@techNmak 5. Post-training for majority of the companies today are mostly about data curation and evaluation, and soon it will be a skill democratizing to every engineer. Your creativity to translate business to data is the most important skill.