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"And as vTOL (flying car) technology matures,"

LOL

6/24/2025 9:20:45 AM

If you look at the airplane selections over time of the 0.1%, 1% and top 10%

70s and 80s: Light Jet (Elvis), Bonanza (Steve Wozniak), commercial airlines
2025: Heavy Jet (Taylor Swift), Cirrus with occasional NetJets (Director at Amazon), business class and 1980s era plane if they own.

Same will be true of helicopters for the use case of moving across populated areas quickly and it will be more accessible to that top 10% group. Something will have to fill the niche even if it’s not vtol.

6/24/2025 9:29:50 AM

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"When is this mass layoff going to happen already?!"

Just anecdotal, but software engineering hiring seems like it's really declined since the heyday of a few years ago. Not just increased layoffs, but also a declining number of open positions.

Again, just anecdotal, without any concrete evidence to back that up.

6/24/2025 9:41:25 AM

^ I think that's mostly the interest rate and free money drying up. Before you had VC funded companies pulling talent from the big players and the smaller players hiring people from bootcamps. Today the smaller players have their run of the new grads and the startups just aren't as plentiful. The narrative and threat of AI is there and leadership/HR is definitely using that as a way to squeeze people lucky enough to find a job.

One anecdote, HackerNews (startup focused tech site) would a thousand job posts on a "monthly who's hiring thread" in 2022. Now it's down to a couple of hundred a month.

https://www.hntrends.com/

6/24/2025 10:12:15 AM

there's also been the tax policy factor

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"the startups just aren't as plentiful"

i think that's starting to change. we're in the beginning phase of most software having to be rewritten so that agentic AI can use it alongside humans. that's a big market opportunity.

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6/24/2025 10:27:12 AM

^ Yeah that's basically what I'm doing in my current role. Turn these garbage PDFs into markdown in an easily configurable way.

Speaking of Agentic AI and Bonanzas:

https://manus.im







[Edited on June 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM. Reason : a]

6/24/2025 11:04:42 AM

is LetGo a new app for bosses?

6/24/2025 11:14:42 AM