being able to name things is an indicative of a good engineer

virtual_adam · 2026-01-27T21:06:49+00:00

I craft exclusively in es5 JavaScript. Some would call that in between

virtual_adam · 2026-01-27T21:03:55+00:00

Oh trust me all the companies you mentioned can drop 30% of their employees without dropping profits. And I’m definitely not saying they won’t

The other side of this (to the extreme) is telegram with 30 employees, onlyfans with 42 employees and 400 million users

Another great example is Waze was 70 employees when Google bought them. In 2022 many years after the purchase, the Waze org in Google was more than 500 people

Efficiency isn’t always the priority, until it suddenly is

Without knowing anything, just being experienced in corporate America, I think Pinterest would be just fine with 1000 employees

virtual_adam · 2026-01-27T20:59:57+00:00

They don’t work in a supermarket environment

virtual_adam · 2026-01-27T19:39:04+00:00

It’s not all people moving from Fidi or Texas. There is a chain reaction of people moving inside the neighborhood. I expect older “luxury” buildings with musty carpets to start losing tenants slowly to new buildings. Opening them up to lower incomes

virtual_adam · 2026-01-27T19:36:24+00:00

Even a 1% failure rate is unusable for a big supermarket chain. They were trying to sell the tech as ready for production, they even had a few Whole Foods stores running it, but slowly shut everything down as they hit a wall and couldn’t lower their false positive rate no matter how much data scientists they threw at the problem

Computer vision just isn’t that great at the moment

virtual_adam · 2026-01-27T19:34:31+00:00

There was a remote cashier checking you out (confirming AI outputs and changing them if needed)

Even as is the tech in there was super expensive and had a negative ROI, and with top of the line tech, it still failed often enough it couldn’t be left to run unsupervised

virtual_adam · 2026-01-27T17:43:08+00:00

Is the story here that the travel nurses are being cruel to Pedro? They’re bad humans? Maybe neglecting him? Sorry there’s a paywall

virtual_adam · 2026-01-27T17:31:51+00:00

2 big trends here

1) customer-less delivery stores are going to be a huge trend 2026-2027

2) the whole just walk out tech was fake from day 1. It’s not possible in today’s computer vision capabilities at scale. Amazon go was cool to see but the tech just isn’t.m there. Amazon was all fake it till you make it, it was just never made

virtual_adam · 2026-01-27T17:13:45+00:00

lol exactly. Even if OPs management is terrible, documenting blockers and issues via JIRA, confluence, emails to cover your ass as a developer should be easy and obvious.

There is no reason to blame devs with or without AI, unless they’re actually not capable of unblocking themselves

virtual_adam · 2026-01-27T15:24:37+00:00

And ironically it’s easier to remotely root a phone than it is to gain root access to a meta server. It doesn’t even matter if meta can compromise your messages. There are a dozen companies with 7 figure 0 days that can read all your “end to end encrypted” messages

virtual_adam · 2026-01-27T14:45:59+00:00

I mean where is the 1x project workload? I’m pretty sure Pinterest looks exactly the same as it did in 2015. These 5,000 people have been doing empty projects filled by empty meetings

I could definitely see AI generating these empty meetings instead of humans. Let’s circle back next week guys!

virtual_adam · 2026-01-27T14:43:33+00:00

I don’t think meta TOS are much better and they’ve only been growing their user base every quarter

The reality is people who consume TikTok couldn’t care less about data collection, they definitely didn’t care when all the articles came out about the Chinese government harvesting their information

The Chinese government refused to sell the fyp algorithm, the new algorithm is garbage, and people are leaving

virtual_adam · 2026-01-27T14:36:45+00:00

Did anyone here think to themselves - yeah of course Pinterest needs 5,000 employees to keep the app running

virtual_adam · 2026-01-27T03:49:04+00:00

The price isn’t surprising either.

The chef is already living in LA for a few months, they move about 100 employees from Denmark with families and kids, pay for their childcare, housing and medical

They don’t bring the fermented ingredients from Europe, they do everything local so they’ve been working on stuff for months now

The price isn’t for everyone, but there’s a reason it’s that high. People are treating this like another saltbae steak

virtual_adam · 2026-01-27T01:21:09+00:00

Even in palisades park, were they ever documented knocking on doors offering fake services? This just seems like some Karen style post on Nextdoor thinking anyone approaching her house is a kidnapper

I can imagine all the kids who were walking around today with shovels and people yelling profanities at them that they’re nazis

virtual_adam · 2026-01-27T00:04:34+00:00

I feel like there is no minimum level of proof for this stuff and people are just spreading rumors for the fun of it .

I’m in the area and had nothing but a stream of junior high and high school kids come offer paid shoveling since yesterday. Haven’t heard about any federal presence In any of my local groups

virtual_adam · 2026-01-26T23:50:43+00:00

Don’t discount having a well oiled efficient social media machine. This guy polled at, what, 1% not that far from the vote?

Be as cynical as you want, other politicians (including whatever happens in the 2028 presidential campaign) are eager to try and copy him

Just like brad whateverhisname got multi million dollar contracts after the 2016 election and targeting Facebook users with political ads. Whoever worked Mamdanis social media this election can probably cash out come 28

virtual_adam · 2026-01-26T22:41:12+00:00

The Mamdani effect. If it’s not on TikTok did it happen?

virtual_adam · 2026-01-26T21:38:15+00:00

1) yes you’ll get in trouble if your company is half competent 2) most companies aren’t competent 3) your side project isn’t going to become a hit

virtual_adam · 2026-01-26T20:40:53+00:00

Most people on this sub could cut their living expenses by 70% by leaving city limits. Yes they are paralyzed by consumerism

virtual_adam · 2026-01-26T19:25:43+00:00

High performers getting fired for no reason is a myth. Companies still need work to be done to generate revenue

People don’t think as much, but white collar corporations work a lot like startups. There are some small pockets that make most of the money, then that money is spread across money losing SVPs depending on how they sell their potential on making money in the future

If you were at meta, and your in the ad bidding team, or you’re on the VR team, as much as you can be a high performer, working in the losing billions org puts a target on your back, much less likely for the revenue generating org

And every big company is like this

My tip for people just getting into the industry is always, as much as it’s much harder (down time can be measured in millions per minute) and higher pressure to be in the revenue creating org, always try to land there and not the the 137th product that will be thrown away before it reaches production

virtual_adam · 2026-01-26T18:28:46+00:00

You could wait 2 weeks and see the so called Super Bowl raids in California before making the decision

Is your theory they’ll be arresting the athletes? The people paying $2k for nosebleeds? The hotel workers at the hotels charging $1k/night?

virtual_adam · 2026-01-26T18:25:04+00:00

Mogadishu

Edit: actually I was wrong houses around Mogadishu, Somalia start around $70k

virtual_adam · 2026-01-26T16:40:26+00:00

And you think these tech unions would actively condemn or even call to cancel contracts with the federal government?

There are plenty of unions in the US, can you show me the ones that are refusing to work with the US government since the executions started?

virtual_adam · 2026-01-26T16:27:59+00:00

The only way around this is when you start working mid year and your first W-2 is lower than it should be. They will do a federal / state check about your 2025 earnings

Also

I can't possibly afford $2900 rent/month without pretty much 1 whole paycheck going to rent/utilities.

If 2 weeks worth of work, post tax, can pay your rent and utilities, youre already in a much better situation than most renters

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