Job postings for "junior developer" or "entry-level software engineer" have dropped ~40% vs pre-2022 levels. Entry-level hiring at top 15 tech firms fell 25% from 2023 to 2024. IEEE Spectrum
AI-related job postings grew 74% YoY. McKinsey reports more than half of companies now use AI in at least one function. Hiring managers say they cannot find enough trained talent. Workforce Institute
105,000+ new SWE openings projected globally as of Jan 2026. The market isn't shrinking overall, but it's shifting: certain specializations are booming while others face pressure. WebProNews
Entry-level hiring at the 15 biggest tech firms fell 25% from 2023 to 2024. Gartner: 80% of software engineers will need to upskill in AI-assisted development tools by 2027.
Anthropic doubled its fundraising target from $10B to $20B at a $350B valuation, backed by Nvidia, Microsoft, Founders Fund. Total cumulative funding exceeds $40B. TechCrunch
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Amazon lays off 16,000 as AI battle intensifies
Second massive round in two months. CEO commits $200B to AI while cutting ~9% of corporate workforce. Sets the tone for 2026.
Andrej Karpathy · Ex-Tesla AI, Ex-OpenAI, Eureka Labs
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Built Tesla Autopilot neural nets. OpenAI founding member. PhD Stanford. Now runs Eureka Labs. Influence: Built production AI at scale AND communicates clearly.
"Software 2.0 is here. The programmers of the future won't write code — they'll curate datasets and fine-tune loss functions. The transition is already underway." — @karpathy
CEO OpenAI. Former YC president. Advocates UBI while running the company most responsible for AI displacement. Conflict of interest is material.
"AI is going to be so good that it's going to do a lot of things that people currently do for work. That's going to require a big societal adjustment." — @sama
Medium influenceX · 3.4M followers · Conflict of interest@sama →
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Yann LeCun · Chief AI Scientist, Meta
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Turing Award winner. Invented CNNs. Chief AI Scientist at Meta. Vocal AGI skeptic. Influence: Godfather of deep learning.
"Current LLMs are not going to lead to AGI. They are not 'mostly there'. They miss the most fundamental aspects of intelligence: understanding the physical world, reasoning, persistent memory, hierarchical planning." — @ylecun