Asian Dad Energy is a 25 year big tech veteran who left the industry and has since become one of the most honest voices on YouTube talking about what is actually happening inside tech. In this conversation he breaks down why the odds of breaking into the tech job market right now are worse than most people will tell you, why AI is simultaneously a legitimate productivity tool and a financial bubble the real economy cannot survive when it pops, why the big tech layoffs are being used as a PR strategy to inflate stock valuations, and why a 25 year veteran called OpenAI a scam and Sam Altman a grifter without flinching. Watch the full Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueHq-HKXN6k&t=16s Recorded April 14, 2026 Timestamps: 01:20 Intro 01:53 Is it worth trying to break into tech right now 07:14 What the H1B visa program actually is and why it is broken 11:47 How H1B exploitation harms foreign workers and American engineers equally 13:27 Why AI is both legitimate and a bubble at the same time 18:08 When will the AI bubble actually pop 18:49 Why the government would bail out the AI industry 19:52 The real economy is shrinking without big tech propping it up 22:09 The snake oil salesmen inside big tech extracting money before the crash 23:19 Where to actually get honest information about AI 25:07 What the leaked Claude Code source code revealed 27:59 The four real reasons behind the big tech layoffs 34:32 Why software engineers are wired differently from everyone else 36:16 The genius engineer whose idea no one in the room understood 38:37 Lightning round 38:48 Would he go back to big tech for a million dollars a year 40:04 One word answers on OpenAI Google Meta Sam Altman Anthropic Elon Musk and his old employer Disclaimer This video is for education and entertainment only. We are not financial, legal, tax, or investment advisors. Nothing here is a recommendation or a solicitation to buy/sell any asset or strategy. Crypto and markets are risky—you can lose all your money. Do your own research and consult a qualified professional. We (and guests) may hold positions in assets discussed and may receive sponsorships/affiliate revenue from links—assume we do. Mention of any company, protocol, or product is not an endorsement. Information may be inaccurate, incomplete, or outdated as of recording. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
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I am a networking engineer and I find it 100x harder than before finding a role. I am a senior and my goodness the level of expectation are off the charts.
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Please bring back the old format
vast majority of the population doesn’t care about someone’s ‘development tools’😂. and who else would care about this crap enough to pay any money for it. if your Google browser suddenly has some enhanced search abilities you’ll say OK fine but if they disappear tomorrow, you will certainly not pay money to get them back. And that is especially true in a troubled economy where millions of people are laid off afraid for their jobs and therefore saving money not doing any unnecessary spending, etc.. It’s very surprising to me that these guys supposedly being smart, lack the wisdom and ability to see the bigger picture in order to understand that eventually this could come down on them too in their personal lives, even if they are millionaires and billionaires. You would think they would instead cherish their high paid employees make them happy and ensure they keep their jobs and can support the economy. But that would take a certain amount of patriotism and focus on your own country your own community, your own people, but in a globalist world that is antithetic to the typical mindset. by the way, outsourcing is not just about H1B Visas. It’s also about simply having major development divisions and centers all over the world.
maybe let’s stop calling everyone an engineer. it falsely hypes and inflates the significance. let’s maybe go back to programmer or software developer. and maybe leave the term engineer to those who are actually building things that society cannot be without, and that cannot just break all the time and not purely for gadgets and entertainment. How did programmers and developers suddenly become engineers?? only very few programmers should be called engineers maybe like those that write airplane navigation autopilots or something like that. The quality of vast majority of programs these days are just not up to par to being called engineering. And it’s almost not possible when the foundation and basic laws are constantly shifting around and being pulled out from underneath you or completely and entirely changing. That’s not engineering. It’s more like folk art.😂 true engineering is built on foundational and mostly unchanging principles which only evolve overtime in certain aspects. most of the software crap is needed only by the tech companies themselves and those who want to either have fun or to save money at the expense of other people’s quality of life
Ai stinks it’s not awesome. it’s a big headache. We are better without Ai computers, data centers. AI= human death. Quality of everything now cheap crap. Not better by any means. Appliances for a disposable world is this what you want just throw it away. Ppl have to stop this me me me me me me world. God is our only salvation Go Jesus Christ. 🙏🏼♥️