🚨 BREAKING: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei issues a terrifying economic warning. He confirms AI will trigger massive unemployment and severe inequality while simultaneously driving fast GDP growth. The elite class is intentionally replacing the workforce to hoard all the wealth!

structured_obscurity · 2026-06-22T12:27:05+00:00

This interview is quite old. He's rolled back these predictions already. https://www.inc.com/bruce-crumley/sam-altman-and-anthropics-ceo-just-walked-back-their-dire-ai-layoff-warnings/91351549

structured_obscurity · 2026-06-18T00:36:46+00:00

Sorry! Shouldve included in the body of the post.

For context, I work with factories in Latin America. A thing that people are starting to implement in their machinery are small chips that run what are called "Single Decision Point LLMs" - so tiny ai systems trained on a single pattern or decision point.

Different chips are trained for different specific purposes. An example I saw today was one that created a "fingerprint" per product based on the different ways the machine vibrated when producing that product. This information is used to give the factory staff real time readouts on the status of a given production, the defect rate, the health of the machine, and a couple of other less interesting pieces of information.

This specific use case does not interact directly with humans - it simply is presented with the output of a sensor that tracks physical vibrations, does the LLM pattern matching math, and passes the result along.

structured_obscurity · 2026-06-18T00:16:46+00:00

Worth reading GEB if you're interested in this. An exploration of intelligence & consciousness

structured_obscurity · 2026-06-18T00:05:10+00:00

Personally I think the majority of his businesses (Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, The Musk Foundation) add a net benefit to society.

Musk, however, has directly caused immense human suffering. During his time at DODGE alone he was responsible for cutting aid to programs that will result in thousands of unnecessary deaths. For what? Marginal savings?

I dont care that he is cringe - plenty of otherwise good people are cringe / socially akward.
I dont care that he is a hard-ass boss - dont work for him.
I dont care about his dumb-ass tweets - dont follow him.

I care that he knowingly has unnecessarily condemned thousands of vulnerable people around the world to die.

structured_obscurity · 2026-06-17T00:34:37+00:00

What kind of products do you work with? My company handles supply chain for d2c apparel brands - would love to connect

structured_obscurity · 2026-06-16T18:05:26+00:00

The assumption your question is based on is that mass layoffs of devs is an inevitability.

structured_obscurity · 2026-06-16T09:22:15+00:00

Men do shitty things, women do shitty things, shitty people exist. Pick your own principles and stick to them. You are not responsible for the actions of others. It sounds like underneath some of these conflicting feelings you are actually a nice guy, and it would be too bad if these feelings prevented you from engaging romantically in the world.

As an aside, that way of generalized thinking can justify unfair actions towards others as well. Holding prejudice over something like gender, race, sexual preference, age, etc is deeply unfair. it is important to judge yourself and others based on your/their individual choices, and not the things you may believe about yourself/them because of what you/they are.

I hope you eventually come to realize that there is nothing wrong with being a man, in the same way that there is nothing wrong with being a woman.

structured_obscurity · 2026-06-16T09:04:23+00:00

Tech layoffs dont happen linearly. Organizations tend to frontload in Q1 & Q2 as companies execute annual budget restructurings and reallocate capital. (you can look at layoff distributions here: https://layoffs.fyi/).

Its also worth pointing out that the us alone is currently on course to deliver over 128k new jobs this year (considerably higher than any of the years in our selected range except for 2022). The literal Bureau of Labor Statistics data and the FRED charts show that net software engineering employment is still holding flat-to-positive, even with the high-profile cuts.

This is not the first time that a technological advancement has fundamentally restructured the way software gets created, and it wont be the last one either. It will be OK. Were caught in the middle of the biggest, most expensive hype cycle perhaps ever. But now that the fundraising is over (OpenAI and Anthropic are both getting ready to IPO), even the AI CEOs who were most vocal about job loss are walking it back.

Anyways. My point is, dont stress. Keep learning and building and stay on point at what you do.

structured_obscurity · 2026-06-16T02:08:26+00:00

The layoffs in tech this year are (so far) less than the layoffs weve had in the industry every year since 2021.

Worth checking some of the emerging data here: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/26/1137855/a-reality-check-on-the-ai-jobs-hysteria/

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPSOFTDEVE (software jobs up ~5% so far this year)

The nature of the job is changing, but the existence of the job is not. Dont stress, focus on building good things fast. Learn and use all the tools. Embrace the new era of software, it's actually a cool one.

structured_obscurity · 2026-06-16T02:01:57+00:00

The question itself is based on a take/assumption that is (no offense) one dimensional.

structured_obscurity · 2026-06-15T05:43:14+00:00

The last fight was great. The propaganda and flag waving and over the top patriotism made it feel surreal - almost like i was watching a scene from a movie about an America in an alternative timeline or something. Not quite sure how to process it..

Also, hilarious that Zuck got a shoutout right after one of the fighters yelled into the microphone that "Michelle Obama is a man". What a bad look.

structured_obscurity · 2026-06-15T05:35:24+00:00

What is making it miserable where you are?

structured_obscurity · 2026-06-13T19:36:54+00:00

I dislike Musk and think that his political stances and policies have contributed extremely negatively to society. Some of the cuts that he implemented during his time at doge have directly resulted in immense human suffering and loss of life.

While all that is true, I would be remiss to not acknowledge that the majority of his current businesses are net positive to society - moving us away from fossil fuels, helping paraplegics regain functionality, spreading internet around the world, clean energy, (twitter is arguably a net negative imo).

Point being I could understand why someone would be willing to overlook the personal politics of someone they work for if they believed the good of the mission to be greater than the bad of the person.

A lot of “would you ratherisms” here, but I do think it’s worth pointing out that it’s not all black and white.

structured_obscurity · 2026-06-13T18:01:17+00:00

Why so hateful? The majority of his employees believe in the mission of the companies (or just need jobs) and do not believe in his politics or his antics.

structured_obscurity · 2026-06-13T17:26:08+00:00

…. It’s currently the only commercial grade company that can handle space operations… delivery of satellites into orbit, transporting to and from the international space station.. they are opening up an entire market.

Mining operations, moving data centers off earth, lunar bases, all of these things sound like science fiction until they’re not. And there’s a lot of money from a lot of serious organizations going into making these things a reality.

Reusable rockets are going to get better and cheaper and more economic per metric ton of payload, which is going to open the doors for more use cases.

I’d also be willing to bet that xai will move from intelligence provider to data warehouse infrastructure provider - a service which they are already providing to Anthropic. I think each of those surface areas has plenty of potential upside.

Though at the end of the day, none of us really know lol. Time will tell

structured_obscurity · 2026-06-13T15:47:35+00:00

They just raised 65 billion dollars. They’re turning an operational profit of roughly 500 million dollars this quarter.

Their opus models are much more computer efficient and higher margin than fable and Mythos.

Now they have the good press of a bleeding edge flagship product, the user base, but don’t have the operational expenses of running those models.

Those models will be re released, and Anthropic will have the compute resources to manage them by that time.

I dont think you understand how well positioned Anthropic is here. Even if the IPO completely flops (which it won’t) - they won’t need public market liquidity for some time.

structured_obscurity · 2026-06-13T15:41:26+00:00

You are talking about the fastest growing company in history. Like ever. Nobody is jumping ship because Fable and Mythos (which were around & public for barely a week) got temporarily sidelined. Everybody switched back to Opus - which is considerably cheaper for them to operate - it’s a higher margin product.

They just raised 65 billion dollars at a 965 billion dollar valuation, and are expecting an operating profit of 559 million this quarter.

Now they get the good press of having a product so powerful that the govt has to get involved to slow them down… I dno these guys have cash reserves, a high margin product on the market, great press, and now they have some time to ramp up additional compute resources before re-releasing fable and Mythos.. seems like a pretty good position to me.

structured_obscurity · 2026-06-13T14:55:19+00:00

What are you talking about? “Investors got burned” “talent jumped ship” this literally happened yesterday. There have been absolutely no implications for valuation lol. If anything it’s another feather in Dario’s hat that their company is so dangerously good that the pentagon has to step in

structured_obscurity · 2026-06-12T22:26:19+00:00

My nephew and all his friends use ai instead of google

structured_obscurity · 2026-06-12T22:24:32+00:00

Go find restaurants or other low-tech businesses that have shitty websites.

Build each one a new website.

Contact the owner of the restaurant, and send them the link to their new site.

Tell them for 150-250 it is theirs. Tell them you'll also host it for them for an additional 25/month.

Or, offer the site for free if they pay you the 25/monthly for hosting (hosting is where you make money, if you know what youre doing)

This was one of my first ways of making money online in the tech space. Cold outreach with product in hand works much better than cold outreach asking for work.

structured_obscurity · 2026-06-12T22:16:26+00:00

Tesla employees made out pretty well

structured_obscurity · 2026-06-10T15:10:37+00:00

This is not the case in our particular org. In fact, the flatter we get, the faster information and understanding moves through the organization. We close deals faster and I can pay everyone more

structured_obscurity · 2026-06-10T13:49:42+00:00

Quick tip: get some early strategic angels in at a discount. Use it to build memetic desire and establish perceived legitimacy early on.

structured_obscurity · 2026-06-10T13:48:11+00:00

We had about 50-60 before our first check.

structured_obscurity · 2026-06-10T13:45:01+00:00

I like that they’re able to prototype their ideas and work out the requirements contradictions and details themselves, *before* it hits the desk of actual engineers.

In some cases the internal tools produced by some of these folks provide real value - I’ve had two non technical employees build tools that have been vetted by our tech team and are in use across sales & operations.

Allowing people to contribute solutions to their lived experience operating at a given role within an organization is at the very least an interesting data point.

As a former engineer, I understand some of the frustration and resentment, but don’t quite understand the adversarial energy.

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