The AI Mirage: July Jobs Report vs. Tech Hiring Truths

(layoffnation.substack.com)

24 points | by anjel 12 hours ago ago

10 comments

  • robwwilliams 9 hours ago ago

    Confused arguments. H1B visa holders are not “off shore”. They live and pay taxes in the USA. The big tech companies are hungry for talent and compete world-wide to hire the best. It is not about shafting older US engineers. The AI angle may be a distraction they use but the main argument in this article is likely to be just wrong.

    • wredcoll 8 hours ago ago

      > The big tech companies are hungry for talent and compete world-wide to hire the best.

      Are you sure you didn't mean "cheapest"?

    • throwawayoldie 6 hours ago ago

      That's bullshit. It's about having talent they can exploit under the threat of losing their visa.

  • meindnoch 10 hours ago ago

    AI = An Indian

  • teeray 9 hours ago ago

    sigh You know it’s slop once the emojis come out in front of every section header

    • throwawayoldie 5 hours ago ago

      And also _every third phrase_ is _rendered in bold_ because _otherwise nobody can read it_

  • throwawayoldie 10 hours ago ago

    Meta: "AI Agents enable the multiverse"

    Oooh, I'm one square away from hitting Bullshit Bingo!

    • rightbyte 10 hours ago ago

      Doesn't a room filled with those wobble head avatars spawning never ending NPC dialogue sound intriguing?

      I though LLMs would be awesome to like hide main quests and stuff with long dialogues everywhere, but the more I think about it the more annoying I think that would be.

      And I mean, when people rearrange some chairs to a phallus they want to know someone is watching. If anything Second Life Metaverse experiences probably wont work very well with rooms filled of bots.

      • throwawayoldie 10 hours ago ago

        It definitely sounds intriguing, in the same sense that a bad car accident is intriguing.

  • adelementary 10 hours ago ago

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