I’ve been listening to “The Smartest Guys In The Room” (the definitive book on Enron and their scandal) and one of the ways Enron continued to grow and grow is by setting up a really complicated system of moving debt onto equities off of their balance sheet.

While it was sorta legal (at the time) it was not ethical and led to a massive collapse of the #1 company at the time.

Makes you wonder if AI is in such a bubble. (It is).

When the AI bubble pops, what will happen to the software engineering jobs?

They'll have to come in and redo all the work that people put onto LLMs as actual engineering software. The number of features I've worked on that could have been done with normal computing practices but instead shoehorned in bad AI to make decisions/routing logic is too high.

There will be a bunch of layoffs and slowly they'll rehire back to pre-hysteria levels. I think the world is still going to need software engineers no matter what but companies will slow down on new features etc in an economic crunch.

The ripple effect will be felt hard, as American engineers are squeezed between offshoring and more engineers with Big Tech resumes being released into the market, and returnees go push back wages in their home countries in turn

If it pops, some ai engineers will need to start doing some normal work again, and rest of us... we just continue doing what we were doing for past decades.

Or maybe not, nobody knows the future any more then next guy in line.

free AI credits will be a thing of the past, "productivity" (real or not) will dive and real software engineering will become a moat again.

Stuck in the middle with you

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am stuck with Hacker News.

Can someone give me a TL;DR?

If you're worried about your brain, reading the entire article might be good exercise for it.

Keto diet makes your brain use ketones instead of glucose for fuel which results in slower brain aging when you're 40-50.

I wonder is keto on then off better or always on.

On then off might let you get more variety in.

Variety is the spicy of life, and all things in moderation.

It's like asking if on and off cocaine is better than always off... sugar being a sort of cocaine-like thing for the brain.

One thing to note here is that ketosis may be achieved by diets less strict like MAD etc.

TLDR;

• As people get older, their brain connections start to break down faster in midlife (around 40–60 years) because brain cells don’t use sugar as well. • Giving the brain a different fuel called ketones can help keep those connections strong during this middle‐age window. • This suggests that helping the brain get fuel in midlife could keep it healthier and slow down memory problems later on.

You can ingest ketones on their own (generally expensive supplements), but this article is more interesting in that a ketogenic diet (very low carbs) may have similar benefits.

Here's my regular Claude prompt:

5 bullet points, make sure I fully understand everything in 5 bullet points:

(My deliberate buzzfeedification of the Internet)

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- Brain aging isn't linear - it follows an S-curve with key milestones: onset ~age 43, fastest decline ~age 61, then plateau.

- Insulin resistance drives it - metabolic problems (high blood sugar) appear first in midlife, before vascular or inflammatory issues.

- Neurons can't use glucose but could use ketones - gene analysis shows aging brain regions have high insulin-dependent transporters but also ketone transporters.

- Ketones reverse aging effects, but only ages 40-60 - ketone supplements significantly helped younger/middle-aged brains but did nothing for 60+ year olds.

- There's a critical intervention window - the 40s-50s appear to be when neurons are stressed but still saveable, suggesting early metabolic treatment could prevent dementia.

Where does it say that? Besides the GP clearly discloses that it is LLM-generated.

It doesn’t. At least not in the guidelines or FAQ (links at the bottom of the site)

If it isn’t, it should be. No one asks in a forum because they want to hear from an LLM.

The article has an abstract. That is the tldr

Fantastic.

I’ve sold SaaS for three different companies.

B2B accounting, Procurement SaaS, and Senior living SaaS (niche, I know).

My only rule:

1. Have a good product.

:( one of the most iconic NBA players. Mutumbo will be remembered.

Born in 1966, retired in 2009, at age 42. Not that uncommon for centers even at the NBA level, but impressive nonetheless. When I was a child in Former Soviet Union, mimicking his iconic finger gesture was a beloved joke on the court -- for us, 5'5" "centers". :) RIP, Dikembe!

He was a legend before he set foot in the NBA.

"After blocking a player's shot, he would point his right index finger at that player and move it side to side."

Building in the college NIL space.

Would you be willing to share more? That seems like a very ripe (can't think of a better word) place to be working in.

How long do you have?!

A friend of mine pitched me this idea of “onlyfans but for NIL” and I’ve been running with that idea.

It’s been an insanely tangled web but there’s some crazy stuff happening and I think it can be a big business.

Without a doubt. This is the first time hearing about working in the NIL space like this but it seems so obvious. I'm surprised I haven't come across it before. Good luck!

I appreciate your insights.

I think that’s the desired outcome but not the most common path.

I love music but I mainly Spotify - concerts are a once a quarter thing, right?

I totally agree. This is a terrible place to research - but I also seek to get the “nerd” perspective bc I’m curious if they’ve hacked it to be better.

I did some research at a football game recently. If you’re bored / interested you can find it on YouTube under “charleswilliamss” or instagram under “gethalftime”

It’s less of a mystery - I agree. Less fan fare.

I think that’s also with the news in general right now.