Opinion | Why We Fall for Narcissistic Leaders, Starting in Grade School

Why We Fall for Narcissistic Leaders, Starting in Grade School www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...

This is the future of programming.

Doing a lot of prompting strategies and ending in a basic "my app is not shown" support case.

Because this is what the deep level of knowledge we will have "it doesn#t work -> FIX IT!"...

I'm bullish on AI-assisted but not AI-driven. Not now. Maybe in a decade

Seems like 7hours of sleep is my new sweet spot.

Before 6-6,5h would be enough but this year, 7h it is

New survey reveals traditional undergraduate education is not preparing students for the workforce  | Hult International Business School New survey from Hult International Business School + Workplace Intelligence shows traditional undergraduate education fails to prepare students for work.

So if 1/3 managers want AI instead of GenZ hire, I guess they don’t want to deal with people, what makes these managers think they are needed?

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Eid Mubarak!

May this Eid bring joy, unity, and countless blessings to all.

Wishing you and your loved ones a blessed Eid. Ameen. #EidMubarak #Eid #Bayramkutluolsun

India Is on a Hiring Binge That Trump’s Tariffs Can’t Stop (Gift Article) An abundance of motivated young professionals is luring American businesses to base their global operations in Indian cities.

Maybe it’s not AI doing all the coding soon but India Tech Hubs?

Thanks to full remote work, companies realized they can outsource whole tech departments/units.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/b...

Yeah. I‘m seeing Cloudflare, business wise, pushing into it because it seems to help make Edge Cloud interesting.
Yet, with many AI/LLM stuff, a lot of announcements but rare real world product usage

Trump’s auto tariffs are a gift to Tesla  President Trump is slapping 25% tariffs on all cars imported to the United States, including from our immediate North American neighbors. He’s also placed a 25% tariff on certain parts used to build cars. It’s a decision that will likely supercharge the cost of new and used cars, but it’s also a gift to Tesla, […]

Trump’s auto tariffs are a gift to Tesla 

Distributed Machine Learning Patterns Practical patterns for scaling machine learning from your laptop to a distributed cluster.</b> Distributing machine learning systems allow developers to handle extremely large datasets across multipl...

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Can anyone tell me what is the crazy MCP use cases people use?

I get the „this is an amazing standard replacing the need for any middleware“ + Cloudflare saying you can bunch of MCP servers on the edge, literally no need for Backends much.

But where are the deep dives?

Is it just me or did the whole US „Trumpcession“ x Nazi Symbolik Elon x „more masculinity“ Zuck destroyed Social Media?

I‘m basically exhausted of shitshow, toxic communication on most platforms.

And if you‘re not an influence / techfluencer it‘s not worth much…

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(Yeah, twitter/x link)

This once in a year worth tweet has to be shared regarding how famous podcasters are all mid-40 single white dudes telling everyone „the right way“ or whatever

Given Bluesky App allows open collaboration, what would it take to have a „LLM“ / Grok like Button here?

And folks can just connect to 3rd party or going crazy with some local first smaller models (Phi,..)

Apple Intelligence could get Gemini alongside ChatGPT — here's why that's a big deal Code dive suggests users may be able to pick which AI they want helping them out in future.

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Apple in talks to replace #chatGPT with #Gemini from Google.

Did a meme for a friend 😬

21 Mind Traps : The Ultimate Guide to your most common Thinking errors YouTube video by Escaping Ordinary (B.C Marx)

nteresting quote from the Video

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And it pretty much fits into confirming what a decade of dopamine injected echo chambers in social networks created today.
No respectful debates, no energy into understanding others. „Me, me, me“…

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is *frequent repetition*, because *familiarity* is not easily distinguished from truth.

- Daniel Kahnemann

Might be more bots around …

It’s crazy how quickly things turn into oligarchy…

Elon Musk Says He'll 'Fix' Community Notes on X After It Disagreed With Him The billionaire has a history of manipulating X to fit his far-right worldview.

It’s only free speech if elites allow it

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The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

Crazy one a bunch if idiots are moving whole political conversation because shit talking „the others“ is always so much easier.

Interestingly, it happens close to elections 🤷🏽‍♂️

Musk’s Clout Complicates Choice for Digital Advertisers Weighing X Welcome to Tech In Depth, our revamped daily newsletter with reporting and analysis about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Kurt Wagner looks at why advertiser...

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To quote advertisers

„You’re buying insurance, you’re not buying advertising,” said Lou Paskalis, an ad industry veteran and chief executive officer of the consulting firm AJL Advisory.

So if you don’t buy ads at X you are going to get problems with Elon.

When did society moved back to bullying?

How on earth would anyone fund and allow the richest person to buy one of the most crucial AI companies?

I mean, really? Lex Luther definitely arrived folks…

Looks like Low-Code/No-Codes are either moving to „Agentic AI“ bla or likely close business at one point.

Elon Musk's Friends Have Infiltrated Another Government Agency Elon Musk’s former employees are trying to use White House credentials to access General Services Administration tech, giving them the potential to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources…

Elon Musk's friends have infiltrated another government agency: the General Services Administration.

His former employees are trying to use White House credentials to access GSA's tech, giving them the potential to remote into laptops, read emails, and more:

The Effect of Layoffs After job cuts, employees experience a sharp and lasting decline in pride, commit-ment, and motivation at work and in their inclination to recommend their employers, according to surveys done at 146 firms that conducted layoffs from March 2020 to November 2022. Change from pre-layoff levels over time

Oh look there is data showing what layoffs do with employees 24+ months after it.

Imagine this: 2 years after layoffs it still has negative impact.

So when you constantly do them What does it tell about culture? …

Better Reading this great analogy late than never!

> recruiting is like romance, employment like marriage

😂