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kalihays1

02/23/26

fun

kalihays1

02/23/26

He ends by noting twitter/x is "worse than useless" for news or any kind of reliable info youtube.com/watch…

Good story on why the jobs market is so weird (demoralizing) atm. It may last a years. "If the jobs are really lost due to outsourcing or AI, then unless we find in a couple of years actually we still need those people and replacing them didn't work, then those jobs are gone."

bbc.com

The US economy is growing - so where are all the jobs?

kalihays1

01/30/26

Again met with complete silence by US tech execs, who easily could have taken the opp to say anything at all on earnings calls this week about whats going on in the country that made them rich. Hoffman doesn't call out the hypocrisy, but pretty much every exec you can think of made public statements of support (some gave money!) for protests in 2020. Wild to look back on this list docs.google.com/sprea…

reidhoffman

01/29/26

Replying to @reidhoffman

We in Silicon Valley can’t bend the knee to Trump. We can’t shrink away and hope the crisis fades.

Hope without action is not a strategy –– it’s an invitation for Trump to trample whatever he can see.

sfstandard.com

Opinion: Reid Hoffman: Silicon Valley can’t be neutral any longer

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kalihays1

01/28/26

Mark Zuckerberg seems to be signalling more layoffs in Q4/FY 25 call: "I think 26 is gong to be the year that AI dramatically changes the way we work. We're investing in native ia tooling... so we're elevating individual contribs and flattening teams. We're starting to see projects that used to take big teams now done by a one v accomplished person. I think were gonna get a lot more done and its gonna be a lot more fun."

kalihays1

01/28/26

Yet, Susan Li says 2025 headcount up 6% overall.

kalihays1

01/28/26

Li re coding tools: “A big part of this is to enable the adoption and advancement of our ai coding tools – since the start of 2025 we’ve seen 30% increase in output per engineer. Were seeing even stronger gains with power users of ai tools, who’s output has increased 80% yoy"