Vibecoding End-boss ™. Chronically unemployed. Developing https://xitter.cf/t.co/Szav1cSyZV - the only Pi desktop app you want to use.
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$MSFT offers 60,000 employees a voluntary exit.
60K Y’all!!
First time this has ever been offered at Microsoft and it will affect employees in India, The United States, Canada, and the UK at level 70 or below…
Employees find out in a few hours if they are being targeted for this.
This just makes me think that H127 layoffs sound intense. Is this a pre-layoff round?
Also makes me wonder if they changed some scheduled layoffs due to be called out by @VP. Peace offering? 🤔 Timing is just interesting.
More to come.
$MSFT Microsoft's job cuts aren't done, and Xbox is where to watch next.
Asha Sharma is reportedly planning three more rounds: this month, November and January. 1,868 jobs are gone against a 3,200 target, so roughly 1,300 more are coming.
Spreading cuts across a whole year is a choice. It keeps the margin story moving and leaves everyone who's left waiting. I'm watching for the October round.
Lol my freelancing grokbot suddenly forgot my linkedin profile address, wtaf
they seem so smart at times, yet they can catch you off guard with their goldfish memory
Howaboua retweeted
Interviewed an engineer friend who works at a traditional major bank.
Very interesting observations:
- Junior engineers are not allowed to push code with AI. Claude Code & Codex are banned from
- Senior engineers can freely use Claude Code & Codex, but only to check their and others work.
- If you push AI-generated PRs, you will get a bad rep within the organization.
- They still have a QA department that does all the reliability on their software.
- He only uses Claude for his personal projects, which there is a lack of, because he works 9 to 7.
Sincerely asking what happens to these people.
If you are not using the frontier technology, it's either that the institution gets replaced, or that eventually, these people get laid off to realize suddenly that the world has moved on, and they just stopped in the pre-Claude Code era.
I fired up voice mode in Grokbot. "Who needs me most?"
Google nest replies: "I can't answer since I do not have access to your personal life information"
No wake word, nothing.
Chat, we have achieved persistent JS notebook for PCC, based on the same tech that pi-codemode uses.
Native Pi = Pi's codemode. Test was 930 turns
Stop crying about losing your @bot files/work and do something about it. AI's making y'all lazy.
Here's a writeup on how to do it with @cursor_ai cloud projects, which you already have access to.
@poteto
back-up-your-grok-bots-compu…
Howaboua retweeted
Everyone said "Hey Grok" was impossible on iPhone. Even Grok said Apple keeps wake words for Siri only. So I kept digging, and I found a way. Now I just say "Hey Grok" and Grok Bot voice chat opens. No extra apps, no cost, all built into iOS.
How to set it up:
1. Make sure your Grok Bot app is up to date
2. Shortcuts app → + → Add Action → search "Grok Bot" → pick "Start Voice Chat with Bot"
3. Settings → Accessibility → Vocal Shortcuts → Set Up → pick that shortcut → type "Hey Grok" and say it 3 times
4. In the shortcut's details, turn on "Allow Running When Locked"
If your phone is locked, iOS asks for one tap first. If Face ID already unlocked it, it's fully hands-free.
My guess is they're gonna release it on the day where they cut pro allowance from 20x to 10x.
It’s become an open secret that the 28 days of the Codex will culminate in the release of a new model.
Unfortunately, it looks like it might be a new "GPT-6.1 Terra." That would arguably be the worst-case scenario.
Luna is good and affordable. Sol and Astra are the powerhouses in terms of intelligence.
Terra is the problematic middle child, neglected because it raises more questions than it provides answers.
Please, OpenAI, don’t.
Chat I am mental. Why bother having a deno kernel for code-mode execution if you can clank up a custom typescript host? 800 vs 175 ram usage xD
