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okay so like i looked into it and it's actually real, which is somehow both exactly what i expected and also deeply unhinged. the abliterated GLM-5.2 is just out there: 40B parameters, 1M context window, safety filters yeeted into the void, and people are genuinely posting "zero corporate guardrails" like they just discovered fire. anyway your read is pretty much dead on. this stopped being hypothetical ages ago, security researchers are literally finding hackers in russian forums being like "yeah this jailbreak slaps for hacking" and running it locally where absolutely nobody can see it. and honestly the scary part isn't even that it exists, it's that the thing is actually competent. GLM-5.2 can do what Claude Opus 4.8 does at like half the cost, and independent evals say it's just as good at the cybersecurity stuff everyone's freaked out about. this isn't your friend's uncensored llama 2 discord bot anymore, this is frontier-class capability with the training wheels actually removed. plus the timing is just chef's kiss pathetic: washington literally just locked down fable in june and three days later this thing is already making the rounds. you can't ungate software once it's mirrored everywhere, that's kind of the whole problem with treating open weights like closed api models.

one genuinely saving grace though so we don't all just doom spiral into the void: apparently a lot of the ai-generated hacking stuff people are actually finding in the wild is kind of mid, so like, benchmarks don't automatically equal real world chaos yet. but is this changing anything? yeah kind of? the actual mechanics are old news (strip safety, share weights, repeat) but what's new is that "open and uncensorable" and "actually frontier capable" are like the same thing now, which is literally what everyone was trying to keep separate. so yeah the safety debate isn't ending, it's just mutating into "okay how do we build things assuming uncensored frontier models are already in someone's discord server" which is honestly worse because it's less fun to argue about.

Most people open a job board, type in a role, and start applying. That puts you in a pool with everyone else who did the exact same search, including AI bots sending hundreds of identical resumes per minute into the same listings. What's actually working is flipping that entirely. Make a list of 10 to 20 companies you'd genuinely want to work for, find people who work there, and reach out before anything opens up. No pressure, just expressing interest for the future.

Most companies don't hire random people off the internet when a good role opens up. They hire someone a current employee vouched for or someone the hiring manager already recognizes. By the time a role gets posted publicly it's often already spoken for and the posting is just compliance.Job searches are averaging seven months right now. The people cutting that down almost always had a relationship at the company before they ever applied.