They graduated from Stanford. Due to AI, they can't find a job

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A common sentiment from hiring managers is that where they previously needed ten engineers, they now only need “two skilled engineers and one of these LLM-based agents,” which can be just as productive, said Nenad Medvidović, a computer science professor at the University of Southern California.

I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a team staffed with ten engineers much less replaced by two seniors and a chatbot, where are these stories coming from?

you have to consider how little value an average American software 'engineer' had to produce to remain employed during the era of ZIRP and COVID overhiring. two competent people doing actual work 8 hours a day could replace ten of those even before the 20% productivity boost from LLMs.

>> where are these stories coming from?

Nowhere. This is the economy going into recession and companies pretending its AI so their share price does not collapse.

https://archive.is/yPBtl

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