Sir, Another 22-Year-Old Has Found a Job

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A still-photo meme captioned "Sir, another 22 year old has found a job" in white text on a black bar. Below, a grey-haired aide in a dark suit leans in to whisper gravely into the ear of a curly-haired, bespectacled man in a suit and red tie, who stares ahead with a stunned, hollow expression - the classic 'aide delivering terrible news' composition (echoing the famous 9/11 Bush whisper photo). In a brutal tech job market defined by layoffs, hiring freezes, and 500-applicant postings, news of any junior actually landing a role is treated as a shocking, historic event worth interrupting the president for

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Entry-level hires are now rarer than a green CI pipeline on Friday - both get escalated straight to the C-suite

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Entry-level hires are now rarer than a green CI pipeline on Friday - both get escalated straight to the C-suite
Anonymous

The hiring pipeline emitted one human; engineering is investigating.
@nwordtech 4mo

Is this an irresistible saturnian urge to make as many young people infertile and out of money as possible?
@deimossos 4mo

Dario, CEO of anthropic, wants his ai to replace all programmers, but he is unsuccessful, as indicated by people that just graduated still finding a job, because there is still demand for humans and not his shitty imaginary super intelligence
1. @death_by_oom 4mo
  
  It was also the Claude code leads quote that "coding is largely solved"
2. @azizhakberdiev 4mo
  
  industry is shifting towards edge computing, by the time claude achieves any meaningful intelligence nobody will care about large models anymore
3. bur del lago 4mo
  
  im turning 23 and i’m still unemployed, does this mean i have a scapegoat now
  
  @deimossos 4mo
  
  You can always blame the broken system
@azizhakberdiev 4mo

All my homies will use NPU
@azizhakberdiev 4mo

In other words, anthropic better brace for impact, a random 22 year old kid who optimizes Llama to be run on calculator will make more millions than tokens eaten by claude
1. @Kingatlas108 4mo
  
  Funny how their name literally translate to "human centered" while trying to replace all the humans.
  
  @Daonifur 4mo
  
  Surely nothing ever went wrong in places like France when governments and rich people tried to have too much control
  
  @Kingatlas108 4mo
  
  It's not 19th century anymore. People won't to anything.
  
  @Daonifur 4mo
  
  True, at least in USA
  
  @azizhakberdiev 4mo
  
  He's not the first AI dictator to try to do that
@blue_bonsai 4mo

Couldn't be me.