Why bother having spies or engage in espionage when you can just track U.S. military plans by following polymarket bets of insider traders in the Trump administration?

I remember when it was a scandal that a company laid people off over Zoom. Now that seems warm and fuzzy compared to the norm today.

Oracle laid off 30K people with a 6AM email with a link to click and accept terms if they wanted severance.
https://www.hardresetmedia.com/p/the-coldest-cold-email-oracles-30000

Bluesky predicting the backlash to their Attie AI tool without realizing it four months ago.

The expected layoffs at Oracle to cut costs to pay for the AI datacenters to host OpenAI landed this morning, hitting 30,000 employees. Given Oracle’s 162K employees, this is an almost 20% reduction of headcount.

This follows a 30,000 layoff at Amazon and a 40% cut at Block in recent months.

https://rollingout.com/2026/03/31/oracle-slashes-30000-jobs-with-a-cold-6/

Software development in the age of Claude Code

OpenAI released a plugin that allows you to use Codex to review code generated by Claude Code.

I assume this is some snarky way of implying you need OpenAI’s coding agent to review the bad code generated by Anthropic’s.

Pettiness abounds.
https://github.com/openai/codex-plugin-cc

All over America, Trump supporters are rebelling.

“We voted for racism, not war.”

Responses from AI chatbots when prompted with posts from Reddit’s Am I The Asshole (AITA) subreddit show they are 49% more likely to side with the author than the consensus of comments from other users.

AI sycophancy will be an insidious problem over time as people get life advice that validates their terrible behavior.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/study-sycophantic-ai-can-undermine-human-judgment/

A founder I’ve been advising mentioned that lately VCs are interested in startups working on replacing jobs with AI.

This excerpt from a post by Logan Bartlett on X sums up the opportunity that VCs see in this space. Tech startups are no longer vying for software budgets but headcount budgets as well.

https://x.com/loganbartlett/status/2037638091671035994

We will soon get to a critical mass of the tech industry experiencing and acknowledging the productivity multiplier that is Claude Code.

What happens when your job is just telling AI agents what to do and checking their work? Tech will be the first through the gate on this.

“I hang out with losers because it makes be feel better. I hate guys that are very, very successful and you have to listen to their success stories. I like people that like to listen to my success.” - words of wisdom from America’s worst president

While lots of people complain about the risk of reduced software quality from AI slop code contributions, all I see is a lot of opportunity to improve test automation using AI in ways that were simply infeasible before the age of LLMs and coding agents.

You can actually automate "eyeball this UI change to see if it looks janky" which was quite infeasible prior to AI coding agents.