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Here is my bold prediction: 2026 is the year where companies start the lay offs. 2026 is the year where we all realise that we can be our own company and build

Here is my bold prediction: 2026 is the year where companies start the lay offs. 2026 is the year where we all realise that we can be our own company and build the stuff in our dreams rather than the mundane crap we do at work. Honestly I am optimistic about computing in general. Llms will open things up for novices and experts alike. We can move into I the fields where we can use our brain power... But all we need is enough memory and compute to control our destiny....

IhateAI_2 8mo ago
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- jdjdndbdhsjsb 8mo ago
  I'm human?
  - oytis 8mo ago
    Are you sure?
  - jdjdndbdhsjsb 8mo ago
    Oytis: I can't reply to you directly, but yes I am sure I am human. Not sure how to prove it to you.
AIorNot 8mo ago
I don't know, its a bit of a hellscape in tech right now as thousands of people with deep domain knowledge and people knowledge and business knowledge (ie experienced engineers managers and product owners), were laid off by C Suites desperate to keep the AI funded mandates going Do you know how hard it to make a successful company or even make money? Its like saying any actor can goto hollywood and be a star VCs wont fund everyone Nobody is sure of anything
- jdjdndbdhsjsb 8mo ago
  Yes it is. But I am an optimist for human nature. I personally believe smaller companies doing different things is the future... Scaling as they need. It is a hellscape but people can and will adapt. > Do you know how hard it to make a successful company or even make money? Yes I have failed to do it before. I get this. > VCs wont fund everyone And? Do you need VCs? Economics mean that scale matters but what if we don't need it. What if we can make efficient startups with our own funding??
  - AIorNot 8mo ago
    I’d like to say its possible But heres the reality from me- I’m in my 50s and I don't have it in me to grind at the level of 20 year olds to achieve some level of security in an untried business model - and this is someone who has launched 2 AI startups in the past 2 years In one we got VC funding but I left after setting up their agent platform and tons of AI assisted coding only to not meet impossible deadlines and over-promised AI value to enterprise customers - I was literally working 20 hr days at stretch for 170k salary competing and half benefits against 25 year olds out of stamford with no lives- far lower than the 250+ with stock and benefits I got in my EM role at a big company which now evaporated - I was edged out of that startup role for not delivering “on time” My second AI startup I cofounded with friends and trusted colleagues its bootstrapped (all of us are over 40) - so we have more experience and better deadlines now but its up to the business gods on how well it will do- crossing my fingers But its a lot of pressure for sure and I currently have no health insurance and my wife was laid off in December and we lost her benefits So I wouldn’t call myself optimistic in the end stage capitalistic hellwhole that is modern “middle class” America I hope a better work model can be found - but having some any salary and medical benefit security would be nice I went to an AI meetup last week and it was filled with gray hairs - i could sense the desperation as many people I met told me they were laid off recently and trying to dive in Ironically looking at them it reminded me of those interviews they used to do in Appalachia or something when a town was out of work and advisors came in and said “learn to code instead of mining” (ok I may be exaggerating somewhat but I even know a ex Microsoft manager who had to resort to a go-fundme to keep his family afloat)
Muromec 8mo ago
>Here is my bold prediction: 2026 is the year where companies start the lay offs. Start? Excuse moi
- jdjdndbdhsjsb 8mo ago
  Yeah fair... But now it is different I.e. they won't regret it
  - layer8 8mo ago
    What gives you the idea that they regretted it?
falloutx 8mo ago
Except it started in 2023, we are in the middle of layoff waves.

IhateAI_2 8mo ago

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jdjdndbdhsjsb 8mo ago
I'm human?
- oytis 8mo ago
  Are you sure?
- jdjdndbdhsjsb 8mo ago
  Oytis: I can't reply to you directly, but yes I am sure I am human. Not sure how to prove it to you.

AIorNot 8mo ago

I don't know, its a bit of a hellscape in tech right now as thousands of people with deep domain knowledge and people knowledge and business knowledge (ie experienced engineers managers and product owners), were laid off by C Suites desperate to keep the AI funded mandates going Do you know how hard it to make a successful company or even make money? Its like saying any actor can goto hollywood and be a star VCs wont fund everyone Nobody is sure of anything

jdjdndbdhsjsb 8mo ago
Yes it is. But I am an optimist for human nature. I personally believe smaller companies doing different things is the future... Scaling as they need. It is a hellscape but people can and will adapt. > Do you know how hard it to make a successful company or even make money? Yes I have failed to do it before. I get this. > VCs wont fund everyone And? Do you need VCs? Economics mean that scale matters but what if we don't need it. What if we can make efficient startups with our own funding??
- AIorNot 8mo ago
  I’d like to say its possible But heres the reality from me- I’m in my 50s and I don't have it in me to grind at the level of 20 year olds to achieve some level of security in an untried business model - and this is someone who has launched 2 AI startups in the past 2 years In one we got VC funding but I left after setting up their agent platform and tons of AI assisted coding only to not meet impossible deadlines and over-promised AI value to enterprise customers - I was literally working 20 hr days at stretch for 170k salary competing and half benefits against 25 year olds out of stamford with no lives- far lower than the 250+ with stock and benefits I got in my EM role at a big company which now evaporated - I was edged out of that startup role for not delivering “on time” My second AI startup I cofounded with friends and trusted colleagues its bootstrapped (all of us are over 40) - so we have more experience and better deadlines now but its up to the business gods on how well it will do- crossing my fingers But its a lot of pressure for sure and I currently have no health insurance and my wife was laid off in December and we lost her benefits So I wouldn’t call myself optimistic in the end stage capitalistic hellwhole that is modern “middle class” America I hope a better work model can be found - but having some any salary and medical benefit security would be nice I went to an AI meetup last week and it was filled with gray hairs - i could sense the desperation as many people I met told me they were laid off recently and trying to dive in Ironically looking at them it reminded me of those interviews they used to do in Appalachia or something when a town was out of work and advisors came in and said “learn to code instead of mining” (ok I may be exaggerating somewhat but I even know a ex Microsoft manager who had to resort to a go-fundme to keep his family afloat)

Muromec 8mo ago

>Here is my bold prediction: 2026 is the year where companies start the lay offs. Start? Excuse moi

jdjdndbdhsjsb 8mo ago
Yeah fair... But now it is different I.e. they won't regret it
- layer8 8mo ago
  What gives you the idea that they regretted it?

falloutx 8mo ago

Except it started in 2023, we are in the middle of layoff waves.