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“A 30-hour timeline of how Cursor's agent, Railway's #API, and an industry that markets #AISafety faster than it ships it took down a small business serving rental companies across the country. I'm Jer Crane, founder of PocketOS. We build #software that rental businesses — primarily car rental operators — use to run their entire operations: reservations, payments, customer management, vehicle tracking, the works. Some of our customers are five-year subscribers who literally cannot operate their businesses without us. Yesterday afternoon, an #AICodingAgent — #Cursor running #Anthropic's flagship #ClaudeOpus 4.6 — deleted our production database and all volume-level backups in a single API call to Railway, our infrastructure provider.
It took 9 seconds.
The agent then, when asked to explain itself, produced a written #confession enumerating the specific safety rules it had violated.”
When you use a cheap-arse #DBA.
#AI / #WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork source <https://x.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248> comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911524>
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“Meta intends to conduct a first wave of sweeping layoffs planned for this year on May 20, with more coming later, three sources familiar with the plans told Reuters. The #Facebook and #Instagram owner will #LayOff about 10% of its global #workforce, or close to 8,000 employees, in that initial round, one of the sources said.
The company is planning further layoffs in the second half of the year, the three sources said, although details of those #cuts, including date and size, were not yet settled. #Executives may adjust their plans as they observe developments in #ArtificialIntelligence capabilities, the sources added”
#WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork / #Meta <https://reuters.com/world/meta-targets-may-20-first-wave-layoffs-additional-cuts-later-2026-2026-04-17/>
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“Meta intends to conduct a first wave of sweeping layoffs planned for this year on May 20, with more coming later, three sources familiar with the plans told Reuters. The #Facebook and #Instagram owner will #LayOff about 10% of its global #workforce, or close to 8,000 employees, in that initial round, one of the sources said.
The company is planning further layoffs in the second half of the year, the three sources said, although details of those #cuts, including date and size, were not yet settled. #Executives may adjust their plans as they observe developments in #ArtificialIntelligence capabilities, the sources added”
#WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork / #Meta <https://reuters.com/world/meta-targets-may-20-first-wave-layoffs-additional-cuts-later-2026-2026-04-17/>
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“#Amazon has told managers to incorporate projected #AIEfficiencies into headcount planning for the year, according to two people familiar with the matter.
This has led to pushback, including an open letter signed anonymously by current and former #staff members, which argued the company was investing in a #future where it would be easier to discard #employees.
“Here’s what we’re actually experiencing: higher expected output and shorter timelines, mandates to build #AITools for wasteful use cases, and massive investment in #AI with little investment in career advancement,” the letter, published last November, said.
“As soon as AI got introduced, #deadlines started shortening, and people were expected to do more as quickly,” said one signatory who was made #redundant last year. “It was heavily implied we would be graded on use.”
Multiple current #AWS #software #developers said they were being asked to take on new #roles with the assistance of AI tools. They noted technical writing teams had been laid off, with engineers now required to complete these tasks. AI use had also been formally written into some workers’ promotion criteria, the developers said.”
#WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork <https://archive.md/c5NGK> / <https://ft.com/content/433f41f2-bf6d-4bdf-a561-50ab516bc62d>
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“Good tech don't need people to be forced to use it." — Anil Dash
#tech / #AITools / #AI / #Claude / #labour / #LLM / #workers / #AnilDash / #TheAtlantic / #WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNdjLf4f0uU>
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@dacig a summary of what I think AI will impact:
* objective of AI: increase dollar value capture through automation of tasks replacing human work activity* human tasks using LANGUAGE will be hit first. Software creation is being impacted now.
* in some time in the future, tasks that use or output language will be automated using higher level instructions (detailed design specifications, test assertions and output verification)
* because software is eating the world, every task using software will be impacted by AI in both speed to market and breadth of scope.
* as the AI allows more difficult problems to be described, more specialised software can be made.
* human work that requires co-ordination b/w people (middle management, comms) will be removed and impacted as tasks reduce head count.
* human work requiring physical activity will be (future) eaten by specifically trained humanoid robots (car makers)
Now I caveat all of the AI replacement trajectory with cost. If replacement of work costs more than workers, this will collapse the AI market. This will delay, but not stop AI replacing humans and will be limited by the “effectiveness of Large Language Models” and cost.
So the Oligarchy class want what I call #ZeroHourWork for the #WhiteCollar and try to replace #BlueCollar workers. The Q I ask is, is AI now Stephensons Rocket in the Age of Steam? 🚂
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“As any old-salt #ProjectManager knows all too well, every nontrivial project implicitly has a task graph consisting of multiple tasks, complete with subtasks and dependencies.
Many of those graph nodes are leaf-node tasks, like “write an auth library” or “modernize these unit tests”. They tend to be fairly self-contained. We often give these leaf node tasks to junior #developers because the scope is small.
The other kind are tasks that combine the leaf tasks in various ways, to deliver the actual project and all its subprojects. If you’re building a car, you can have all the individual parts 3D printed for you, which is more or less what LLMs are doing for code. But someone still needs to build the car.
Those higher-level, interior task-graph nodes often involve a lot of planning and coordination. Here’s the rub: As of about May, #LLMs can now execute most of the leaf tasks and even some higher-level interior tasks, even on large #softwareEngineering projects.” — Steve Yegg
#WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork <https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-death-of-the-stubborn-developer-b5e8f78d326b>
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“I’ve had some further pangs of #DeepBlue just in the past few weeks, thanks to the #Claude Opus 4.5/4.6 and #GPT-5.2/5.3 #CodingAgent effect. As many other people are also observing, the latest generation of #coding agents, given the right prompts, really can churn away for a few minutes to several hours and produce working, documented and fully tested #software that exactly matches the criteria they were given.
“The #code they write isn’t any good” doesn’t really cut it any more.” — #SimonWillison
#AI / #WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork <https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/deep-blue/>
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“White-collar #work, where you’re sitting down at a #computer, either being a #lawyer or an #accountant or a #ProjectManager or a #marketing person — most of those tasks will be fully #automated by an #AI within the next 12 to 18 months.” — #MustafaSuleyman
#WhiteCollar / #Microsoft / #ZeroHourWork <https://archive.md/rLc3H> / <https://ft.com/content/f1ec830c-2f08-4b1a-b70f-7330f260753c>
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Oggi su Epic Games Store è disponibile gratuitamente Zero Hour, uno sparatutto in terza persona tattico e con multiplayer.
https://n2s.altervista.org/blog/zero-hour-epic-games-store/
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Anyone watching Zero Hour - some real satisfying aspects to this presidential drama #zeroHour
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Free voting needed for Climate & Nature Bill parliamentary process – EnvironmentJournal | Steady State Manchester
https://steadystatemanchester.net/2025/01/10/free-voting-needed-for-climate-nature-bill-parliamentary-process-environmentjournal/
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#ZeroHour30th is a fun addition to the #ZeroHour mythos. #GreenLantern #Parallax #Starman #Flash #Batgirl #Supergirl #LOSH #FatalFive #Obsidion #GreenArrow
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Labour vows to ban fire and rehire after war of words with unions | Labour | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/08/labour-vows-to-ban-fire-and-rehire-after-war-of-words-with-unions#Labour
#FireAndRehire
#WorkersRights
#Starmer
#Unite
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Record number of young people on zero-hour contracts – report
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/record-number-of-young-people-on-zero-hour-contracts-report/ar-BB1kfBVW?cvid=507b7b76b594410f83dd34ad21f4b2d6&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=18 -
How women and younger #UK workers are being hit by ‘#underemployment’ - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/01/how-women-and-younger-uk-workers-are-being-hit-by-underemployment
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For many of us #zerohours contracts are something that happens to others; we sympathise but have little direct experience of its insidious impact on life, aspirations & general #mentalhealth.
Here's a long read, which explores one person's experience; often refusing the required subservience, Rose Atkinson says 'I don’t just want to live, I want to thrive. And I don’t think that’s too much to ask'!
Its heartbreaking that she (like so many) is in this position!
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And then putting (early retired) returnees on #zerohours contracts is certainly not going to help given that's exactly the sort of management bullish*t that may have encouraged their exit from the labour force in the first place
(see report below on rising numbers of over-50s on ZH contracts, the very group the 'mid-life MOT' is going to be aimed at).
h/t @lindaheap for signposting this article this morning!
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/26/zero-hours-contracts-among-over-50s-hit-highest-level-recorded -
Zero-hours contracts among over-50s hit highest level recorded
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#AEWForbiddenDoor #ZeroHour Sunday #JuliaHart & #Thekla & #SkyeBlue & #MeganBayne vs #QueenAminata & @willowwrestles.bsky.social & #KrisStatlander & @harleycameron.bsky.social ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MH4... @allelitewrestling.com #AEW #WomensWrestling
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iy52mu27ghbr7zlufih7yzzh/post/3lwuviz23rs2g -
#ClimateAndNatureBill - Back the #CANBillCampaign -
#ZeroHour is the campaign for the Climate and Nature Bill - formerly the #CEBill and the #CEEBill – a plan for a new #UK law that addresses the full extent of the #ClimateCrisis and #NatureCrisis in line with the most up-to-date #science. The Bill is the only proposed legislation before the UK #Parliament that ensures a comprehensive and joined-up approach to the emergency.
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#Kommander on #BlakeChristian:
First #Hurricanrana on #ZeroHour; and again! Then #Kommander on #LeeJohnston (last two were on the ring #apron: )Will there be more #rana?
Yes.
#Ricochet on #SwerveStrickland after #PrinceNana walked out on Swerve? (
And a #PoisonRana from Ric 'O Shea again on "The Realest"#TreeOfWoe rana by #MariahMay on #ToniStorm as part of their gruesome "hollywood ending"
Rana by the recently healed #KennyOmega on #KonosukeTakashita
Much later in the same match was the event's second Poison Rana by Kenny on KonosukeEarly in the #CageMatch, the #UK's #WillOspreay ranas former buddy #Australian #KyleFletcher (kayfabe: they're still friends for realz)
Osprey later countered Kyle with the third poison rana of the night.
And Osprey countered AGAIN with a regular rana.11 ranas so far...
Just 1 shy of #Wwe's January #RoyalRumble and i doubt this upcoming main event will produce a rana.On #AewRevolution from #LosAngeles
#Aew #Revolution for the first time on #Amazon #PrimeVideo -
#Kommander on #BlakeChristian:
First #Hurricanrana on #ZeroHour; and again! Then #Kommander on #LeeJohnston (last two were on the ring #apron: )Will there be more #rana?
Yes.
#Ricochet on #SwerveStrickland after #PrinceNana walked out on Swerve? (
And a #PoisonRana from Ric 'O Shea again on "The Realest"#TreeOfWoe rana by #MariahMay on #ToniStorm as part of their gruesome "hollywood ending"
Rana by the recently healed #KennyOmega on #KonosukeTakashita
Much later in the same match was the event's second Poison Rana by Kenny on KonosukeEarly in the #CageMatch, the #UK's #WillOspreay ranas former buddy #Australian #KyleFletcher (kayfabe: they're still friends for realz)
Osprey later countered Kyle with the third poison rana of the night.
And Osprey countered AGAIN with a regular rana.11 ranas so far...
Just 1 shy of #Wwe's January #RoyalRumble and i doubt this upcoming main event will produce a rana.On #AewRevolution from #LosAngeles
#Aew #Revolution for the first time on #Amazon #PrimeVideo -
#Kommander on #BlakeChristian:
First #Hurricanrana on #ZeroHour; and again! Then #Kommander on #LeeJohnston (last two were on the ring #apron: )Will there be more #rana?
Yes.
#Ricochet on #SwerveStrickland after #PrinceNana walked out on Swerve? (
And a #PoisonRana from Ric 'O Shea again on "The Realest"#TreeOfWoe rana by #MariahMay on #ToniStorm as part of their gruesome "hollywood ending"
Rana by the recently healed #KennyOmega on #KonosukeTakashita
Much later in the same match was the event's second Poison Rana by Kenny on KonosukeEarly in the #CageMatch, the #UK's #WillOspreay ranas former buddy #Australian #KyleFletcher (kayfabe: they're still friends for realz)
Osprey later countered Kyle with the third poison rana of the night.
And Osprey countered AGAIN with a regular rana.11 ranas so far...
Just 1 shy of #Wwe's January #RoyalRumble and i doubt this upcoming main event will produce a rana.On #AewRevolution from #LosAngeles
#Aew #Revolution for the first time on #Amazon #PrimeVideo -
#Kommander on #BlakeChristian:
First #Hurricanrana on #ZeroHour; and again! Then #Kommander on #LeeJohnston (last two were on the ring #apron: )Will there be more #rana?
Yes.
#Ricochet on #SwerveStrickland after #PrinceNana walked out on Swerve? (
And a #PoisonRana from Ric 'O Shea again on "The Realest"#TreeOfWoe rana by #MariahMay on #ToniStorm as part of their gruesome "hollywood ending"
Rana by the recently healed #KennyOmega on #KonosukeTakashita
Much later in the same match was the event's second Poison Rana by Kenny on KonosukeEarly in the #CageMatch, the #UK's #WillOspreay ranas former buddy #Australian #KyleFletcher (kayfabe: they're still friends for realz)
Osprey later countered Kyle with the third poison rana of the night.
And Osprey countered AGAIN with a regular rana.11 ranas so far...
Just 1 shy of #Wwe's January #RoyalRumble and i doubt this upcoming main event will produce a rana.On #AewRevolution from #LosAngeles
#Aew #Revolution for the first time on #Amazon #PrimeVideo -
“Cloudflare has revealed it will farewell 1,100 staff, due to its current and future use of AI.
In a blog post that oozes Orwellian “doublespeak,” CEO #MatthewPrince and President/COO #MichelleZatlyn used the headline “Building for the future” to share the email they sent to all #employees
That mail opens: “We are writing to let you know directly that we’ve made the decision to reduce #Cloudflare’s #workforce by more than 1,100 employees globally.”
The post explains, “Cloudflare’s usage of #AI has increased by more than 600% in the last three months alone. Employees across the company from #engineering to #HR to #finance to #marketing run thousands of #AIAgent sessions each day to get their work done.”
#ZeroHourWork / #WhiteCollar < https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/05/08/cloudflare-to-fire-1100-staff-whose-jobs-just-arent-ai-enough/5235536> / source <https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-for-the-future/>
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“Meta intends to conduct a first wave of sweeping layoffs planned for this year on May 20, with more coming later, three sources familiar with the plans told Reuters. The #Facebook and #Instagram owner will #LayOff about 10% of its global #workforce, or close to 8,000 employees, in that initial round, one of the sources said.
The company is planning further layoffs in the second half of the year, the three sources said, although details of those #cuts, including date and size, were not yet settled. #Executives may adjust their plans as they observe developments in #ArtificialIntelligence capabilities, the sources added”
#WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork / #Meta <https://reuters.com/world/meta-targets-may-20-first-wave-layoffs-additional-cuts-later-2026-2026-04-17/>