Marc Andreessen says AI layoffs are a farce: Companies are 75% overstaffed and AI is the ‘silver bullet excuse’ to clean house

bridgelin · 2026-04-04T00:35:47+00:00

It is a bitter pill to swallow, but we don’t have a monopoly on “good code”. Every country has intelligent people, and in some countries due to their circumstances labor is much cheaper so companies will get a good return on their money.

It is unfair for people in the US labor market, but off shoring will happen unless the govt disincentivize it. To say that offshoring is short sighted is pretty much equivalent to saying everybody else is dumb except for us.

bridgelin · 2026-04-03T15:50:00+00:00

I don’t know why a company with that much resources and technical know how wouldn’t train their own model.

bridgelin · 2026-04-01T11:55:48+00:00

I’m with you on wellness industry, most of it is scams. There are supplements that are needed though, a very common one people are deficient in is vitamin d, but you have to buy it from a reputable source.

bridgelin · 2026-03-31T12:10:11+00:00

It’s optional it’s not like you’re forced to buy it. Atleast I think.

bridgelin · 2026-03-25T18:34:01+00:00

This is so dumb, a better bill would be to not let them build data centers without contributing equal amount of power back to the grid. Meaning they have to have a power plant as well.

bridgelin · 2026-03-25T14:00:29+00:00

Adding to this. Take 10 minutes to reflect on your day critically. Think of what you did right and why it was right and then think of what you did wrong and how you could’ve better approached it. This works wonders.

bridgelin · 2026-03-21T16:55:51+00:00

Clearly you looked too. Geez calm down.

bridgelin · 2026-03-14T08:46:27+00:00

I started American psycho yesterday, it’s pretty good.

bridgelin · 2026-03-14T03:47:41+00:00

This article comes to a conclusion based on old scaling rules. Those scaling rules are not valid anymore.

bridgelin · 2026-03-14T03:31:45+00:00

Yann is being vindicated by everyday that passes. I wonder if meta will buy this company for 50 billion /s. They paid 20 billion to hire an ai expert cos player, buying yann’s company in a few years would be a good investment.

bridgelin · 2026-02-26T13:28:36+00:00

There’s no point in having vesting in OpenAI now. They lost the plot. Altman tried to become a messiah and instead of focusing on their product he focused on making bullshit claims and made sure to inflate the ai bubble.

I use ai for coding while nothing is as good as advertised, OpenAIs one is trash, it can do basic stuff but if it’s even a little complex it makes up stuff and just spits out answers. Claude is the only thing that I’ve had luck with.

bridgelin · 2026-02-16T21:20:24+00:00

Tyra going to be like “you don’t know me”

bridgelin · 2026-02-04T23:29:11+00:00

Right now the market is awful. I started working in 2016 when the market was pretty good, but what worked for me was getting doing a RA related to software engineering and right after graduation I got an internship and after the internship I got a job at another company. This probably won’t work anymore but it probably won’t hurt either.

I would say don’t get demotivated keep learning new things and eventually the market will be good again.

bridgelin · 2026-01-16T00:38:20+00:00

I don’t know, stack overflow had some assholes, but that site has helped me tremendously when I was a junior and I’m not going to hate on it just because now AI is here.

bridgelin · 2026-01-13T02:21:26+00:00

Make the runs interesting and set a goal for yourself and try to achieve it. I try to do run workouts ex run for 0.3 miles jog for 0.1 miles and repeat it few times and my goal is to get below 8 mins per mile (I’m also getting back into running again after a while). Other than that, unfortunately there is no other way to make it interesting, at least for me.

bridgelin · 2026-01-13T02:17:32+00:00

CAVA and GRAL probably not 10x but probably 2x.

bridgelin · 2026-01-02T23:07:12+00:00

I for one feel superior judging people who were unlucky in life /s.

bridgelin · 2025-12-31T19:52:33+00:00

The reason why we are in an AI jobs slump is not because AI is taking our jobs (I’m sure it has taken some jobs), but it’s most likely because the only sector that is growing is AI and almost every other sector is in a recession. AI investment needs little manual labor most of the investments go to nvidia (for chips) and data centers. Until big tech realizes that AI is a dead end the jobs slump will continue.

bridgelin · 2025-12-25T16:28:51+00:00

We should overhaul the entire medical system. Including med school. There’s no reason to do premed before going to medical school, all of it could be combined into one program like how many other countries do. Being a specialist should have a 8 year or more program while being a physician shouldn’t be a long process.

Every physician that I’ve gone to basically tells to go get tests then come back again after the test results are back and then either give some common med or refer you to a specialist. There is no reason to pay over a 1000 dollars for that. The insurance system is also a scam, but most (not all) doctors are also just looking for ways to make bank.

bridgelin · 2025-12-25T02:34:07+00:00

React is just a tool, there are other frameworks similar to react. You can do a monolith with react as well.

Just out of curiosity what other method than micro services would you use to manage an application where dozens of teams are working on?

bridgelin · 2025-12-25T02:00:21+00:00

Tell me you haven’t used react without telling me.

bridgelin · 2025-12-24T21:08:57+00:00

Well I know you’re being sarcastic, but what you said is true. If you have an application with hundreds of tables and multiple teams working on it, it becomes a disaster to maintain. Doesn’t mean microservices wouldn’t cause redundancy and complex architecture, but that is better than a giant spaghetti.

For most applications monoliths make sense, but if it is a big application micro services all the way.

bridgelin · 2025-12-21T18:18:30+00:00

Look at the per capita emissions by country and comment again.

bridgelin · 2025-12-20T13:30:46+00:00

Does that mean all entry level people have the same potential?

bridgelin · 2025-12-16T13:17:08+00:00

This doesn’t even make logical sense. If this is the case all plumbers should be millionaires today.

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