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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 employers prioritize AI literacy over traditional qualifications.

• LLMs boost coding speed in familiar frameworks but require human oversight for quality in complex projects.

• Only 20% of seasoned Big Tech engineers embrace AI tools, with 30% considering leaving the industry.

• How can we balance AI-driven progress with integrity and fairness?

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-Achieving Student Rejected by Ivy League for CS, Accepted to UMass Amherst

• College Admissions Competition

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 software in 3-6 months, all in a year
• Bear case against AI taking over
• Sesame new voice assistant
• https://www.ultravox.ai/
• Karpathy coining the term "Vibe Coding"

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 Microsoft AI vs. critical thinking paper
• Meta AI data center project
• Apple AI infra investments
• Covid SWE jobs vs HR
• Sahil on not hiring junior + mid-level eng
• Anthropic Economic Index results
• Why is Everyone Trying to Replace Software Engineers?
• Silicon Valley Engineers Can't Find Jobs
• Westley's company, Trillium is hiring!

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 hasn’t AI produced anything novel?
• Lex Fridman Deepseek episode ->university hiring and job loss

Zuck is now king. Rogan, layoffs, and no more DEI. Plus the xAI app rocks and does OpenAI really have a moat?

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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.

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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.

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• ​The tweet mentioned
• ​Another resource on the topic of whether the traditional junior engineer archetype is dead