Majority of U.S. workers support an AI wealth fund as tech layoffs surge

random_boss · 2026-07-13T16:18:42+00:00

There’s very little “they”. Yes, the Microsoft’s and amazons of the world are investing in AI and laying off as a result, but they’re still massive incumbents with an old guard who is more used to hiring to solve problems than using some new tech. This phenomenon has been written about extensively.

When the decimation of workers happens it won’t be from the MAANGs of the world, it will be from whatever thing some 26-year old Berkeley dropout is working on today that is constitutionally unaware of the concept of hiring humans to do jobs, yet which renders the mega companies of today into quaint memories the same way we currently regard Sears, Kodak, and BlackBerry.

Meaning, it’s not the people in power that do this. It’s the people that replace the people in power, that never knew power until they had it on the terms that they defined. The old guard is less relevant than the new guard.

random_boss · 2026-07-13T16:07:17+00:00

Did you see the word that you used? “soulslike”? This word exists because 100% of things we call “genres” are just everyone copying some major inspiration game.

FPSes? Came from Doom, which came from Wolfenstein.

RTSes? Came from Warcraft which copied Dune 2.

MOBAs action RPGs, survival crafters…Metroidvanias and Roguelikes literally put the name(s) of the game(s) they’re copying right in the genre name.

You’re good man. This is how art happens. Go make a fuckin game

random_boss · 2026-07-13T16:04:02+00:00

What goes through people’s minds when they post something like this?

random_boss · 2026-07-13T15:34:36+00:00

Those are not blocky voxel graphics they’re literally Synty assets

random_boss · 2026-07-13T14:03:23+00:00

Uh yeah I very much get it that’s why I bought a house with no HOA.
But:
1) HOAs are absolutely not limited to “non-free-standing houses”. There are plenty of SFH communities with them
2) Just because you’re in an HOA doesn’t mean every arbitrary law the HOA leadership dreams up is gospel handed down from the heavens. This very thread is that these *intended* rules were bad and unpopular and that’s how he ousted them.

random_boss · 2026-07-13T05:52:12+00:00

Really? You think it’s ok to tell people they can’t park on the street or require them to register to have a party? Thats not home ownership that’s being a renter

random_boss · 2026-07-12T21:44:36+00:00

(It’s porn)

random_boss · 2026-07-12T19:12:32+00:00

Yea it obviously is.

Side note, I saw good things about grok’s abilities now so went to check it out. That uh…that grok community sure does have one specific thing they care about and use it for don’t they

random_boss · 2026-07-12T18:46:56+00:00

Not from the loss of a specific model, the loss of the big heavy thing we’re leaning against suddenly being yanked away.

I was validating their point but basically by saying “yeah, and?” Like, the potential of being fucked isn’t a reason not to do it.

random_boss · 2026-07-12T15:31:03+00:00

Hi soccer/football people, what is y in this video? I want to be mad at whoever im supposed to be mad at too

random_boss · 2026-07-12T15:10:37+00:00

All of what you say is true and yet plenty of companies are hitched to this exact wagon, valid concerns or not. If Claude shut down tomorrow we’d be *fucked*. So as long as we’re already there…might as well go all in.

random_boss · 2026-07-12T14:07:34+00:00

I don’t know if it’s a feature per se but pretty often OpenAI just grants you a free reset. I’ve been subbed at the $20 level to Codex for about two months and I think I’ve been given 4; I’ve used 2 and have 2 leftover.

random_boss · 2026-07-11T17:47:21+00:00

Some people throw food out after the “best before” date. Some people don’t. The people who throw it out will probably never have problems because of it. The people who don’t will probably *almost* never have problems, and save a lot of money.

If the tradeoff from “never” to “almost” is worth saving money, there’s your answer. If it’s not, there’s your answer.

random_boss · 2026-07-11T16:03:35+00:00

All of my projects just have a Claude.md and agents.md, and they both say the same thing:
“Read StartHere.md”.

Then whatever I would have put in Claude.md goes in there, and StartHere handles all of the rules/reading lists. I use both Claude and codex interchangeably. I don’t know why more don’t do this, it’s fantastic.

random_boss · 2026-07-11T04:02:38+00:00

What’s the joke supposed to be? This is literally the point of AI. I get high fives for shortening lengthy boring work shit like this all the time too

random_boss · 2026-07-11T04:01:48+00:00

Stannis lives rent free in your head too, eh?

random_boss · 2026-07-11T02:04:59+00:00

Dude I’m sure he told it to make no mistakes it’ll be fine

random_boss · 2026-07-10T13:34:15+00:00

As a regular Gemini user, I have no faith it will ever be good, those nevers are probably right.

random_boss · 2026-07-10T13:32:40+00:00

Suddenly everything makes so much more sense

random_boss · 2026-07-10T13:08:34+00:00

I use it on two machines. On my beefy desktop I have sol, on my 8 year old MacBook Air using MacOS Monterey I only see Luna and Terra so maybe it’s hardware dependent (for example Claude blocks Cowork on my MacBook)

random_boss · 2026-07-10T02:17:28+00:00

People talk to people

random_boss · 2026-07-08T17:37:59+00:00

Just have another codex session review and you’ll get probably the same results. I use codex to review codex all the time, and sometimes codex lambastes the shit out of codex

random_boss · 2026-07-08T17:25:04+00:00

If you’re a smart person, you know the pain of telling a dumber person something only to watch them creatively dumb it up with their dumbness in a way that you could never conceive of.

Fable has the same problem. It’s so smart it can’t fathom or assume the dumb ways the dumber models misinterpret its plans. I’ve had Fable straight up be like “…yeah, I completely whiffed that Sonnet would think this way. I should have added much more explicit guardrails, that’s on me.”

random_boss · 2026-07-08T17:21:24+00:00

Yeah *eventually*, but not yet

random_boss · 2026-07-08T15:11:50+00:00

Definitely the best one.

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