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The AI bulls are back! Insiders believe AI is here to take your dev job, but the hiring market suggests otherwise… Austin Allred Tweet Software Engineering Jobs Tax Deduction Anthropic researchers “white collar jobs automated in 5 years” Google Chief AI Scientist - “AI = Junior dev in less than a year” Lenny’s Job report

Cheat on everything and your degree means... nothing? Don't give into the extreme viewpoints, everything will be just fine. Exploring technological disruptions, from cheating tools to AI's impact on education and software development. Cluely's launch sparks ethical and legal debates about cheating in academic and professional settings. 49% of Gen Z feel college degrees are devalued as empl...

Our discussion moves to college admissions, where many surprising rejections have been recently coming through. Also, a new week, a new model with Llama 4 and people are seriously questioning AI progress. Llama 4 AI Progress Questioned Analyzing the Housing Affordability Crisis for Engineers The Overwhelming Complexity of Software Engineering Cal AI founder rejections And corresponding tweet High-...

In this one we chat about recent AI developments, including Gemini 2.5 and ChatGPT's image generation, along with a deep dive into one person's experience on the levels.fyi forum. Gemini 2.5 pro is cooking? ChatGPT image generation Blocklists in the industry Is the market just cooked for new grads? (from levels.fyi )

Oops, we failed recording episode 6. This one worked! Vibe coding is the new hotness. Is it really the future? We talk about (more) CEOs declaring software careers dead early and why the AI takeover is not as clear cut as some would have you think. Student using AI to cheat on interviews WSJ says job hopping isn’t as lucrative as it once was Anthropic's CEO predicts AI will code 90% of softwar...

We are joined by our long time friend Westley, who shares his journey through defense tech with us. We discuss the onslaught of recent AI news and how everyone seems to have an opinion on AI replacing software engineers. Show notes: AI Model updates – Grok 3 benchmarks, Sonnet 3.7 and Claude Code OpenAI Roadmap New companies from Ilya & Mira Murati Junior Engineers can't code Analysis of M...

Today we invite our first guest, Adarsh, on the show! Adarsh is an MS student at Arizona state. He shares with us his experience with the upending of CS curriculum by AI tools, the challenges of getting past application tracking systems (ATSs), and a heartfelt set of affirmations for those on the hunt for their first job. Show notes: MSFT, Meta layoffs Kimi AI (China is cooking) Dwarkesh – why has...

Zuck is now king. Rogan, layoffs, and no more DEI. Plus the xAI app rocks and does OpenAI really have a moat? Show notes: No more Meta DEI Zuck / Rogan pod: ⁠Summary of⁠ Cory’s thoughts Zuck banned trump from meta for 2 years, kind of pretending like he’s the good guy all along Meta terminations : “The terminations will be based on performance, per the memo from CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who said he&#3...

In this episode, we continue our discussion of junior folks in software. We also talk about current events around AGI, Mark Zuckerberg's fact checker announcement, and the X H1B debate. Show notes: Junior dev roles are disappearing Roon tells us we underestimate the future @sama letter on AI @sama 6 word story Mark Zuckerberg's announcement Elon's initial H1B response And follow up Vivek's respons...

Hello world. In this episode, Cory and Jk discuss the hiring environment for new software engineers today. Things have changed since AI tooling has entered the chat, and new engineers are having a harder time finding good jobs. Show notes: ​ The tweet mentioned ​ Another resource on the topic of whether the traditional junior engineer archetype is dead