Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life@mas.to
Trump can cook the jobs numbers however much he wants but everyone in the workforce knows what’s really going on.
https://www.newsweek.com/us-hits-highest-layoffs-since-covid-2111794
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life@mas.to
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life@mas.to
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life@mas.to
SignalFire shares some interesting metrics about big tech engineering orgs.
• Meta, OpenAI & Anthropic’s are hiring massively while Tesla, Palantir & Walmart are shrinking.
• Average manager to engineer ratio rose from 5.87 to 7.65 over 9 years.
• Four-year tenures dipped slightly (59% → 52%), challenging the “job-hopper” myth.
• 13% of Apple devs don’t have a college degree which goes up to 15% for Microsoft and Adobe.
https://www.signalfire.com/blog/whos-winning-the-engineering-talent-war
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life@mas.to
Who do you sue when the judge in your court case uses AI and it hallucinates?
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/11/1121460/meet-the-early-adopter-judges-using-ai/
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life@mas.to
Anytime I write about the AI boom, someone responds with a link to an Ed Zitron article claiming there’s an AI bubble.
Yet every major AI service provider can’t stop talking about how there’s so much demand for their products they are turning customers away.
AI is literally the only bright spot in the economy right now outside of ICE’s hiring numbers.
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life@mas.to
Sam Altman talks about how some of their users are forming co-dependent relationships with AI which is causing strong negative reactions between version updates as the AI’s behaviors change.
He also talks about how people now get life advice from AI which while making him uneasy is now something they are designing their products around.
I remember when the media freaked out about research to understand if Facebook news feed affected people’s emotions. Sam is building software to direct lives.
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life@mas.to
Elon Musk has threatened to sue Apple because it is “impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store.”
Grok is the #5 free app in the App Store which is a remarkable ranking for an AI that once called itself “MechaHitler”
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/musk-says-xai-take-legal-action-against-apple-over-app-store-rankings-2025-08-12/
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life@mas.to
I’ve been an advocate of deleting the code of Alexa & Siri and replacing them with an LLM but this is easier said than done. The unreliability of an LLM contrasts with the expectations people have for these digital assistants.
Alexa+ ignored alarm cancellation requests, hallucinated shopping recommendations, and delivered incorrect information when reviewed by @nytimes@mediastodon.com . Ouch.
https://9to5mac.com/2025/08/09/alexa-plus-launch-bugs-delays-siri-comparison/
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life@mas.to
It’s wild that the UK has passed a law requiring Reddit and Wikipedia to age verify users. The law was framed as protecting children from online pornography but seems to have greatly expanded its scope as all such laws do.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr11qqvvwlo.amp
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life@mas.to
While understandable given the rise of AI scrapers, it’s sad to see the open web dying a little each day.
Future generations won’t realize how much they’ve lost.
https://www.theverge.com/news/757538/reddit-internet-archive-wayback-machine-block-limit
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life@mas.to
Simultaneously the richest and poorest man in America