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

(layoffnation.substack.com)

23 points | by anjel 7 hours ago

5 comments

  • robwwilliams 4 hours 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 3 hours 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 1 hour ago
      That's bullshit. It's about having talent they can exploit under the threat of losing their visa.
  • meindnoch 5 hours ago
    AI = An Indian
  • throwawayoldie 5 hours ago
    Meta: "AI Agents enable the multiverse"

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

    • rightbyte 5 hours 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 5 hours ago
        It definitely sounds intriguing, in the same sense that a bad car accident is intriguing.
  • teeray 4 hours ago
    sigh You know it’s slop once the emojis come out in front of every section header
  • adelementary 4 hours ago
    [dead]