Syed's Blog

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The Layoff-and-Hire-AI-Engineers Cycle

· news-and-views

Companies cut teams with one hand and post AI job ads with the other. What's actually going on, and what it means for people in the middle of it.

Everyone Is an "AI Company" Now

· news-and-views

The toaster has AI. The spreadsheet has AI. The company that sells socks has an "AI strategy." A sceptical guide to separating real AI products from rebranded if-statements.

AI Trading Bots: Losing Money at the Speed of Light

· money-satire

The bot that made 900% in a backtest and 0% in real life. Why trading-bot ads are a masterclass in overfitting, survivorship bias and fees.

Will AI Take My Job? A Calm, Mildly Sarcastic Analysis

· ai

AI replaces tasks before it replaces jobs. Here's a practical way to look at your own work and decide what to learn next.

My AI Assistant Wrote My Code. I Wrote the Bug Report.

· ai

AI coding tools are genuinely useful. They're also confident, fast and occasionally wrong in ways that look exactly like being right.