AI obsolescence is “coming for basically everyone in due time,” says one engineer who went from earning $150k to being locked out of the workforce for over a year.
Not to mention that even the companies are suffering from the system they themselves built. The gamified and enshittified hiring process doesn’t improve the quality of the workers they get, it just filters the candidates based on a bunch of unrelated skills.
The talent pool has always skewed towards people who know how to play the game, rather than actual talent… but now “the game” they’re playing isn’t even about useful skillls like human charisma or networking, it’s about handling or misleading poorly designed AI tools.
Not to mention that even the companies are suffering from the system they themselves built. The gamified and enshittified hiring process doesn’t improve the quality of the workers they get, it just filters the candidates based on a bunch of unrelated skills.
The talent pool has always skewed towards people who know how to play the game, rather than actual talent… but now “the game” they’re playing isn’t even about useful skillls like human charisma or networking, it’s about handling or misleading poorly designed AI tools.