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The AI wildfire is coming. it's going to be painful and healthy

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117 points LordAtlas | 1 comments | 07 Dec 25 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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8f2ab37a-ed6c ◴[07 Dec 25 19:03 UTC] No.46184133[source]▶
With little growth and hiring happening outside of firms betting the farm on AI—and getting the funding to stay alive and play the lottery—what is a random tech employee supposed to do here?

It seems like right now the most rational move to stay in the industry is to milk the AI wave as much as possible, learn all of the tools, get a big brand name on one's resume, and then land somewhere still-alive once the AI music stops? But ultimately if nothing outside of AI is growing, it's one big game of musical chairs and even that might not save you?

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1. torginus ◴[07 Dec 25 22:27 UTC] No.46185917[source]▶
Do you think this has something to do with the current US policy of antagonizing most of the Western world?

Tech and software's investment balance sheet comes down to a largely fixed cost of development vs. a large customer base where every customer has little to no additional cost.

If you manage to burn the bridges or at least scare hundreds of millions of those people into exploring alternatives, that really eats into your total target market in the long run.