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If you look at their financials, they’re clearly making money. In 2025 they had 33B in revenue with a net income of 5.2B

Full quote: "Some truth to that. There’s a whole bunch of back office you needed to be public which AI has made a lot more streamlined. Very few engineers or customer-facing sales people impacted by our layoff. And we’ll continue to hire like crazy in those roles — like we did as a startup."

More quotes by him in other comments too:

[1] "Roles are being cut. Whole functions. Who will survive and thrive are anyone who’s building the product to be sold, or anyone who’s selling the product. We and others will hire everyone good we can find for those roles."

[2] "We’ll still be on a roll hiring. Just shifts to focusing on people who either build or sell products. Fewer roles needed to act as scaffolding supporting those functions"

[3] "Agree! Hence we laid off very few software engineers. Very few customer-facing sales people either. But if you don’t think AI changes how SalesOps, for instance, will be done going forward then it probably means you don’t know what SalesOps is."

[4] "We’ll still be hiring at a rapid pace. This isn’t about cutting headcount. It’s about shifting what roles we need. More people building and selling product. Less providing back office functions to support them."

[5] "We’re not slowing down hiring. We’re just shifting for what roles we’re hiring. This isn’t about cutting staff, it’s about changing what roles we need."

[1] https://xcancel.com/eastdakota/status/2052598611679097040#m [2]- https://xcancel.com/eastdakota/status/2052559855274144039#m [3]- https://xcancel.com/eastdakota/status/2052560831909433554#m [4]- https://xcancel.com/eastdakota/status/2052557234182172932#m [5]- https://xcancel.com/eastdakota/status/2052557696650428882#m [6]- https://xcancel.com/eastdakota/status/2052561977080205637#m

Curious what you all think of this, or if this matches what you're hearing/seeing out there? From public forums it seems like quite a few engineering roles were impacted.

Very little content on the actual thing he says will be replacing LLM: World models

It is 2025 and Tesla just announced flying cars. (Self driving cars are still not a thing)

Awesome product & team. I remember back in 2016/17 I used it for some fun projects and jumped on calls with the founders to help me with roadblocks or questions I had.

https://archive.ph/q56om

I think you underestimate what does (or could possibly) have consequences for life on earth

I don't know if their newsfeed algorithm is broken, or just grasping at straws, but whenever I log in (fairly often simply for FB marketplace) my feed is full of posts and recommendations for things that don't even make sense for me. For example hiking groups that are in a random mid-size city 2,000mi from me. Or student housing groups in a random international city.

I've tried to even provide feedback on them not being relevant, but they still always appear. I don't know, it really does seem that their newsfeed relevancy is fundamentally broken

A $2B valuation with revenue roughly between $15M-$25M a year. Is this normal? Seems insane to me. And I love Supabase!

Full un-shortened headline: In Pursuit of the Bitcoin God. Years of studying Satoshi Nakamoto led me to a new prime suspect. What if crypto’s creator is just a jerk?

This is wild

-> The dramatic 50-page complaint alleges racketeering, misappropriation of trade secrets, tortious interference, unfair competition, and aiding & abetting breach of fiduciary duty. The lawsuit is largely centered on an employee whom Rippling claims was working as a spy for Deel.

->Ripplings’ lawyers note that[...] “Rippling employees’ Slack activity is ‘logged,’”, “meaning every time a user views a document through Slack, accesses a Slack channel, sends a message, or conducts searches on Slack, that activity (and the associated user) is recorded in a log file.”

-> It was a sudden spike in that logged activity, and specifically how it centered around the word “Deel” that raised a flag to the (HR?) team that tracks that activity.

-> “The channels D.S. previewed during this period have no connection to his payroll operations job responsibilities,” states the complaint. “What they do relate to, however, are all aspects of Rippling’s business development, sales, and customer retention strategies—the most sensitive of the Company’s Sales and Marketing Trade Secrets and confidential business information—with a particular emphasis on a single competitor, Deel.

Complete with a setting up a honeypot in a sting operation

-> According to the lawsuit, Rippling set up a “honeypot” to prove out its suspicions. The company created a fake Slack channel and shared its name with key Deel execs, then sat back to see if D.S. searched for it. He did, claims the lawsuit.

And then the alleged spy hid in the bathroom to avoid handing over his phone.

-> Things got very heated afterward, per the filing, which says that when an independent solicitor attempted to seize D.S.’s phone by court order, D.S. escaped to the bathroom, “locking the door behind him and refusing to come out, despite the independent solicitor’s repeated warnings.”

-> Rather than comply, it goes on, “D.S. was heard ‘doing something’ on his phone by the independent solicitor, who also heard D.S. flush the toilet— suggesting that D.S. may have attempted to flush his phone down the toilet rather than provide it for inspection.” It did not recover the phone later.

I really wonder how this one is going to play out

Looks very cool! Wiz is a beast at the moment so I will be watching closely to see if you (or anyone else really) will be able to go up against them

Absolutely agree. I went through this as well with friends who did bootcamps during the covid craze. After 3 months they understood how to code and the syntax, thinking that’s all they needed to be a “full stack developer”

When they weren’t getting any jobs I tried to explain that the syntax of coding is the easy part. The hard part is everything else.

For the past 10 years I’ve only allowed two types of “notifications”

Phone calls. Vibration allowed, never sound.

Text/whatsapp messages. They are allowed to simply appear on the lock screen. No vibrations, no sound.

That’s it, for everything else I have to manually open the app to check it.

It’s shocking to me to see how the vast majority of people live with a constant barrage of notifications of which a huge majority are spam and/or not important at all.

Yeah kind of disappointed how every article around what’s going on in the current administration is getting flagged almost immediately.

As long as the discussions remain civil and discuss these topics in a nuanced manner - they should not be getting flagged.

Completely agree. Being slow and not able to be flipped upside down on the whim of someone (or some party, or some group, etc) is a feature not a bug

In my opinion incremental change with a common passage toward a better future is the best way to have long term functioning democracies

I’m torn between believing the vast majority of this, and being completely freaked out about our future.

But, on the other hand a part of me thinks perhaps this isn’t some well thought out master plan. But rather a bunch of selfish a-holes who are trying to grab as much capital and resources (still terrible) but without a master plan to reshape the future of civilization.

I guess we’ll know more over the next few years. Regardless, scary times ahead

True. Let’s hope they don’t actually get migrated (being copied outside of standard operating procedures is bad enough)

Hi! Sorry I didn’t mean to offend. I just thought it was a cool project I wanted to share. I didn’t mean to disparage or put down any other company or offering

Worth noting that there is a European company (I believe headquartered in Sweden) whose mission is to build an EU-first cloud to compete with the large US offerings.

Evroc[1] is their name and I’ve been following them for a few years now. They raised a large amount in 2023 [2] and looks like they’ve just broken ground on land to build a data center just last week [3]

Very curious on how this will work for them and I plan on following their journey very closely. Any EU-based cloud engineers should apply to join!

[1] https://evroc.com/

[2] https://sifted.eu/articles/evroc-plans-e600m-investment

[3] https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/swedens-evroc-acq...

I. Love. Sublime

I’ve tried all the other main editors but always come back to Sublime. The simplicity, the speed, the near instantaneous load time.

I feel like I’m such an outlier but for my text editor I don’t want all the fancy bells and whistles that come with all the IDEs nowadays. It feels like Sublime is the only one that is so intuitive OOTB while allowing access to a plethora of features (if you need/want them). Whereas the others throw everything in your face and it feels like a battle to just get it configured for your needs.

Granted, I mainly code for personal and side projects, and actually enjoy the coding part so I don’t want AI, or advanced features, writing code for me! Even for the productivity gains, I just find coding on my own enjoyable and solving problems as they arise.

That being said, I can totally understand why devs who need to collaborate with large teams, under strict deadline, across multiple countries - probably absolutely need the fancy features that come with enterprise IDEs.

I just love my Sublime editor and never plan on switching :)

Ah, makes sense :)

Interesting, I wonder if he also memorized all the irregular verb tenses? If so that is a serious feat.

For example, future tense in the 2nd person adds “ás” to the end of the verb. Pensar becomes pensarás. But, there are irregulars. You’d think the verb salir would be salirás (if you were memorizing), but it actually it saldrás

Seems like an incredible feat that goes beyond memorizing a dictionary. Unless Spanish scrabble maybe has specific rules around verb tenses and whatnot?

My first follow was xkcd (of course) - https://bsky.app/profile/xkcd.com

Accounts similar to this energy are what I’m hoping to find

Wouldn’t an obvious way to use the Turing test on any of these LLMs is just ask it questions about things that just happened in the world (or happened recently)?

Knowing their training data is always going to be out of date (at least for now) seems like an obvious method, unless I’m missing something

This part really stuck out to me

-> Two years later, Ma applied for a job as a contract linguist in the FBI’s Honolulu field office. By then, the Americans knew he was collaborating with Chinese intelligence officers, and they hired him in 2004 so they could keep an eye on his espionage activities.

-> Over the next six years, Ma regularly copied, photographed and stole classified documents, prosecutors said. He often took them on trips to China, returning with thousands of dollars in cash and expensive gifts, including a new set of golf clubs, prosecutors said.

So the government knew he was already working for a foreign agent, hired him at the FBI to keep tabs on him, yet he still stole classified documents during this time over 6 years?

Either this should be a huge intelligence blunder, or perhaps he was “stealing” innocuous information that the FBI allowed him to?

Also interesting they waited so long to arrest him. Wonder what was happening / being discussed that prevented it for so long.

Does anyone have any good recommended articles/reads about why exactly the US recovered quite spectacularly (GDP wise) after the ‘08 financial crisis, while the EU stagnated so heavily?

Any comparisons to Propel Auth? (Another YC funded auth service that seems to have lot of overlap here)

For those who can’t see the tweet:

“I’m back at DARPA, but this time part of the leadership team as DARPA’s Chief Information Officer (CIO).

I’ll be at Defcon this year on stage with the Agency Director talking about larger picture items, and hopefully even greater ambitions than when I last keynoted BlackHat/DefCon as a DARPA PM.

We all pulled off real magic the first time I was at DARPA (~ 2010-2014). In addition to helping stand up I2O as the agency “Cyber” office, a lot of the magic created through things like Cyber Fast Track (CFT) were due to the direct participation of this community.

The projects, designed to ensure they gave back to this community, continue to evolve and grow today!

Let’s see if we can make an even bigger dent in the universe this second time around!

Kindest,

Mudge”

Hi OP here - this is not an argument for or against anything. Rather just a reminder that whichever side you are on, or whatever you are advocating for, just to remember we are talking about humans. That’s the only point I was making.