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This whole 48 team tournament is so stupid. Now in the round of 32, it becomes a knockout instead of these 32 teams hanging multiple opportunities to play against each other in groups. So we had a substandard set of groups for 48 followed by immediate knockouts. How does this make any sense FIFA jaane.

The problem with AI right now is unlike the cloud revolution of early/late 2000s, things are changing so fast that it’s nearly impossible to keep up or learn. What skill do you actually learn? Is it even relevant 6 months from now? Everyone can vibe code an app today who tries. Most things are just promoting. There was some period of time last year when agentic AI and MCP felt like a skill set to learn – now you can just vibe code and build them. Forward deployment engineers – what do they do except designing a AI solution which IMO an AI chatbot will probably do just as well? We are truly entering an era where upskilling yourself does not have much meaning left. What do you even upskill?

We are half way into summer swim season and the outdoor pools are still frigging cold all over the area. This ridiculous weather with cold spells and incessant rain has all but ensured the pools don’t warm up at all. No surprise that even during the day the pools are going empty – no one’s there. I hate hate hate this ridiculous weather we get here. Like warm up already!

The Portugal Uzbekistan match is why expanding to 48 teams is not a good idea. The reality is this – I don’t think there are more than 16 good teams in football and the World Cup more or less centers around them. 32 is a great opportunity for surprises to happen but still keep the pool manageable. 48 is just a cash grab.