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This too, is in a way an AI creation. Expect more of it.

Kid graduated Stanford CS last month with $180k in debt and a 3.8 GPA

Applied to 847 entry-level positions since January

Got 3 phone screens. Zero offers.

Interviewed at a Series C startup in October. Hiring manager told him straight up: "We used to have 8 junior engineers. Now we have 2 seniors with Cursor and they ship faster than the old team of 10."

His roommate who graduated with him is driving for DoorDash

The career services office is still telling kids that "software engineering is recession-proof" while their own alumni network shows 67% of 2023 CS grads still unemployed or underemployed

Meanwhile offshore contractors in Hyderabad are getting $35/hour to do senior-level work with Claude 3.5

The same work that used to go to American new grads at $140k total comp

His internship manager from last summer just got laid off. Team of 12 mobile engineers replaced by 3 contractors and a React Native AI agent

The bootcamp kids who graduated in 2022 and got $120k offers? Half of them managed out during "performance reviews" that were really just AI productivity audits

He's $180k in the hole for a degree in a field that stopped hiring humans at his level 18 months ago

But sure, keep telling kids to "learn to code"

https://xcancel.com/TechLayoffLover/status/2029225910851809370

This too, is in a way an AI creation. Expect more of it. >Kid graduated Stanford CS last month with $180k in debt and a 3.8 GPA > Applied to 847 entry-level positions since January > Got 3 phone screens. Zero offers. > Interviewed at a Series C startup in October. Hiring manager told him straight up: "We used to have 8 junior engineers. Now we have 2 seniors with Cursor and they ship faster than the old team of 10." > His roommate who graduated with him is driving for DoorDash > The career services office is still telling kids that "software engineering is recession-proof" while their own alumni network shows 67% of 2023 CS grads still unemployed or underemployed > Meanwhile offshore contractors in Hyderabad are getting $35/hour to do senior-level work with Claude 3.5 > The same work that used to go to American new grads at $140k total comp > His internship manager from last summer just got laid off. Team of 12 mobile engineers replaced by 3 contractors and a React Native AI agent > The bootcamp kids who graduated in 2022 and got $120k offers? Half of them managed out during "performance reviews" that were really just AI productivity audits > He's $180k in the hole for a degree in a field that stopped hiring humans at his level 18 months ago > But sure, keep telling kids to "learn to code" https://xcancel.com/TechLayoffLover/status/2029225910851809370
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They should mine coal?

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That's quite the reversal of circumstances. But alas, no future in both of those. There's a 'mine the gap' joke in there somewhere, I just can't quite solidify it. Wealth gap maybe?

I wouldn't want to be in their place, the race to the AI assisted bottom is going ahead full steam. What's the right decision, if all decisions are somehow wrong?

I learned a trade when I was young, as did most of my peers. Getting dirty and wet at cold and windy construction sites seems safe from AI interference for now. In an ideal world that kind of commitment would earn you a fortune.

Door dash, Uber and meth addiction seem to be the way of the future for aspiring young'ns. Or maybe becoming young NS.

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I call bullsh, I'm not saying that coding is a good way to go. But no one graduates Stanford and then "can't find a job." I don't really care what you major in. Its literally zero people who graduate Stanford, want a job, and then don't have one. Zero. That's the entire point of Stanford. This is click bait bullsh.