Backward Deployed Engineer @peedgdev

@lialiascg @Enjoy_W_Decline What's ur job

@jensenhuang6915 @Fiscal_ai U think it will recover from 340 to 500 in 1 day? Maybe 2 months lol

@aleabitoreddit What do you think about SPX being near ATH tho? That divergence is worrying compared to like end of March when everything was oversold? So don't we have less room to run?

@johnvirality RIZZ

@lucaspatiri_ UGC

@aleabitoreddit Damn that looks nice, need a vacay there

@JStephswolf @aleabitoreddit I know right, I'm trying to find some too

Here was my last Workplace post in the "Shitposting" group the night before the mass layoffs: In the end, it doesn't even matter I was incline benching 155 lbs in the packed MPK gym this evening while some Metabrothers were standing in front of me waiting for the squat rack, and I heard that song "I tried so hard, and got so far. But in the end, it doesn't even matter. I had to fall, to lose it all. But in the end, it doesn't even matterrrrrr". That was always my favorite Linkin Park song since I was a kid. I love that melancholic piano melody interweaving with Mike Shinoda's rapping. Some people have told me I look like him - and we do both share samurai blood - but I don't sound as good rapping. I love music, but I admit I rarely pay attention to lyrics unless they're particularly good ("I See $'s" by Yung Dolph) or bad (that hideous pop remix of Eiffel 65's "Blue"). But this time the lyrics stood out, like a message from Mike Shinoda himself. "In the end, it doesn't even matter" sure hits different with 5/20 coming up. A great reminder that at the end of the day, none of this really matters. Well unless you're on a H1B visa. Then you have 60 days to find another job. Or if you have a $12k/month mortgage on a $1.6m starter home in a San Jose hood and your emergency fund only covers 6 months expenses. Then you better start dusting off that resume. Or if you're a junior/mid level software engineer who didn't graduate from Stanford University CS and haven't been Leetcode grinding since prep school - I heard the market's rough out there. But it's all good because a lot of the tech CEOs are telling us that there will be a surge in new jobs due to the incredible productivity boost of AI. We just don't know when yet. But to be honest if you're still reading this, you're probably not landing one of those $100m offers anytime anyways (I don't mean to discourage anyone though - print this out, put it on your fridge, and prove me wrong! Thank me later!) I saw a lot of orange lanyards tonight at Epic Cafe dinner in MPK classic. They were serving poke, and I love poke. Of course Meta poke isn't as good as Masa Sushi in Mountain View, and they douse it in too much sauce, but it's poke. It's the gesture that counts. Maybe there's some humanity left in this world after all. And maybe wearing an orange lanyard isn't so bad after all. They're always smiling, laughing, so happy to be here. If only there were a way to wear that orange lanyard and still get the vests (marry a Metamate?). I still own a lot of stock. I hope the stock will recover. Layoffs will reduce company costs, which should boost the stock price. Sometimes in life you need to sacrifice. Sometimes you gotta grind it out for that arbitrary deadline. Sometimes you gotta write Google Docs for your Direction axis. Sometimes you gotta align in meetings. Sometimes you gotta dogfood. Sometimes you gotta pull those Deltoid metrics and screenshot paste them into Google Docs. Sometimes you gotta tell Claude to write PHP. Sometimes you gotta label training data for avocado. Sometimes you gotta take one for the team. This isn't Nvidia, we stack rank here baby. No matter how tough it may be, remember that in the end it doesn't even matter. Be grateful you got to contribute to the impact, even if your final impact was sacrificing yourself for shareholder value. It starts with one thing, I don't know why It doesn't even matter how hard you try Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme to explain in due time All I know, time is a valuable thing Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings Watch it count down to the end of the day, the clock ticks life away It's so unreal, didn't look out below Watch the time go right out the window Tryna hold on, d-didn't even know I wasted it all just to watch you go I kept everything inside And even though I tried, it all fell apart What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when I tried so hard, and got so far But in the end, it doesn't even matter I had to fall to lose it all But in the end, it doesn't even matter One thing, I don't know why It doesn't even matter how hard you try Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme to remind myself how I tried so hard In spite of the way you were mockin' me, actin' like I was part of your property Rememberin' all the times you fought with me I'm surprised it got so far Things aren't the way they were before You wouldn't even recognize me anymore Not that you knew me back then, but it all comes back to me in the end You kept everything inside And even though I tried, it all fell apart What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when I tried so hard, and got so far But in the end, it doesn't even matter I had to fall to lose it all But in the end, it doesn't even matter I've put my trust in you Pushed as far as I can go For all this, there's only one thing you should know I've put my trust in you Pushed as far as I can go For all this, there's only one thing you should know I tried so hard and got so far But in the end, it doesn't even matter I had to fall to lose it all But in the end, it doesn't even matter

@kaushik39516152 @aleabitoreddit Why did CAMT get fked recently the er was fine no?

@aleabitoreddit Check SONY for sensors and physical AI exposure

@citrini Is this how we'll escape the permanent underclass by 2028?

@slabecry @aleabitoreddit Wondering same thing

@CryptoDLunar @aleabitoreddit You can get SIVE still

@aleabitoreddit Do buying international stocks on other exchanges on IBKR entail fees? Literally gonna make an account to do so soon

@HussainIbarra AI

I'm 22. And the job market has never scared me this much. I'm not used to talk about this, but people need to know. 1. The ladder is collapsing from both ends. Big Tech is quietly killing entry-level. Google. Meta. Amazon. New-grad programs shrinking, frozen, or gone. The "safe path" people spent four years preparing for is disappearing under their feet. On the other side: 21-year-olds becoming founding engineers at YC startups. Setting their own terms by building real things. Builders will wins the new race. Others will loose it. 2. AI fluency stopped being a skill. The gap between people who treat AI as a cofounder and people who use ChatGPT to rewrite emails isn't a productivity gap anymore. It's a species gap. 22-year-olds who got this 18 months ago are running circles around senior engineers. Not because they're smarter. Because they stopped treating AI like a tool and started treating it like leverage. The ones who haven't caught on are being managed by the ones who have. Parents reassuring them everything is fine are looking at a job market that stopped existing two years ago. 3. Distribution killed credentials in their sleep. Going from Stanford to Google, now is irrelevant. The new path is simpler: You ship something. People use it. You build an audience. That's the new résumé and most people are falling behind. 4. The talent market is more broken than anyone admits. Best engineers don't reply to recruiters. They ignore $25K retainer emails. LinkedIn is a graveyard and everyone in tech knows it. A new layer is emerging, companies representing top builders . Direct intros without applications. I'm watching it happen from inside one @standoutwork . What's actually going on in tech hiring looks nothing like the public narrative. 5. I'm not watching from outside. I'm in it. A friend turned down a $280K Stripe offer to be employee #4 at a stealth AI company for $80K. His parents would never understand his decision but he's right. And we all know they're wrong. Other friends took the safe path. Good logo. Good title. Good salary. They're watching their role description slowly being replace by AI. Nobody tells them directly. The question isn't whether it hits you. It's whether you learned to swim before it arrived. If you're 22 and in tech, the playbook is gone. Not outdated. Gone. Don't optimize for a job. Optimize for being someone people fight to work with. I know, not everyone will agree with this, but at the end, this is the reality in the tech world, and people need to know it.

@Mho_23 UGC

@Iris7lmn @aleabitoreddit It isn't out yet right?

@oscarsu80310329 @aleabitoreddit Following

@aleabitoreddit GOOG?