I’ve applied to between 550-600 jobs since December and hardly heard anything back. The past two weeks recruiters started reaching out to me and at this point I’m at least having early round discussions with 5 companies. They’re mostly smaller and somewhere in the health care space, but I went from virtually 0 to having something. Obviously it’s early stages so you can’t count on anything, but it looks like things may be picking up again.
I think there’s some widespread regret about AI not being good enough to replace your whole dev team with one new grad project manager who just clicks yes on 100 Claude code sessions.
If only there was a way to test if the new path is sound before burning all the bridges behind you. But I guess that’s crazy talk, there’s literally nothing those brave CEOs could have done better.
You gotta understand - making workers obsolete is the owning class’s greatest desire. They can’t wait to get rid of us. So when any chance might come up, they’ll try everything to make it work, no matter the cost for everyone else.
🎶you gotta go and the join the union🎶
They had a really really really hard choice though
Be “behind” on AI with the shareholders, or drop expenses and pretend using ChatGPT/Claude makes them unique for the shareholders!