A CS professor at a mid-tier state university just sent me their internal placement data Fall 2023: 89% of their graduates had offers by graduation. Average starting salary $94k Spring 2024: 71% placement rate. Average dropped to $78k Fall 2024: 43% placement rate. Those who

Spent the last two weeks in closed-door strategy sessions with 30 CTOs from enterprise software, healthcare tech, and fintech The consensus number they all landed on: 67% headcount reduction by Q4 2027 Not layoffs. "AI optimization." Same deliverables, fraction of the humans.

VP at a major cloud platform signed a $4.2M retention package Tuesday morning Golden handcuffs to stay through 2027. Stock grants, cash bonus, the works. Board approved it unanimously. Same VP called an all-hands Thursday afternoon to announce 420 IC eliminations across 7

Major cloud player just wrapped their biggest all-hands in company history "Record Q4 revenue of $47.2 billion. Best year ever. You made this happen." CEO spent 73 minutes celebrating growth metrics. Stock buyback announcement. Bonus pool increased 23% Standing ovation at

Insider at Meta in my DMs yesterday telling me that layoffs are coming. They are ironing out the details. We should see announcements relatively near-term.

@robbystarbuck @BillAckman

My contact at a Fortune 500 retail giant just sent me the internal deck that's making rounds in executive circles "Operation Streamline 2027" - 73 slides of pure workforce annihilation Target: reduce global headcount from 34,000 to 12,400 by December 2027 The spreadsheet

Too bad Nikita Bier is experiencing twink death. He was cute and handsome (in an effeminate type of way) when he had an intact hairline. Now he is just a skinny short bald dude

A QA lead at a mid-stage SaaS company just messaged me She spent 6 months building the AI testing framework her VP asked for in January Framework ingests user stories, generates test cases, executes full regression suites, files bugs with reproduction steps She trained it on

A source at a major cloud infrastructure company just forwarded me their Q1 2026 internal planning deck Page 47 shows "Project Lighthouse" - their AI headcount optimization roadmap Current engineering org: 2,847 people across 23 teams Target by December 2026: 891 people The

Source inside a Fortune 500 consulting firm just walked me through their "Future Skills Accelerator" program 287 senior consultants enrolled in mandatory 12-week training. Each session recorded. Screen capture enabled. Keystroke logging active. Week 1: "Learn to leverage Claude

My source at a 400-person B2B fintech just watched their entire technical writing team get eliminated in 47 minutes 8 technical writers. Combined 73 years experience. Salaries ranging from $97k to $156k Team lead had been there 11 years. Built their entire documentation system

Follower in my DM’s tells me how a major industrial company replaced his whole team with offshore hires + Claude code. Fucks them all over, only pays out 12 weeks of severance. And the kicker? His wife left him.

@WSJ @nytimes @CNBC @nypost @zerohedge please look into this

Keep the DMs coming. Tech workers are fucked. You better have a side hustle or a damn good plan to unionize Why are companies allowed to lay off Americans while hiring Indians to do the same job for 20¢ on the dollar at the same time?

18+ year senior dev got laid off 8 months ago. His company replaced his entire 12-person team with just 2 AI specialists. Now he's literally flipping burgers at McDonald's to make rent after 100+ job apps ghost him. Interviews are clown world: they grill him on "vibing with

Sarah Chen graduated UC Berkeley CS in December with a 3.91 GPA and $167k in federal loans 847 applications since graduation. 12 phone screens. 4 technical rounds. Zero offers. Her last interview was brutal - startup CTO showed her their codebase live. "This used to take our 6

Massive stagflation is now guaranteed. Every company subject to inflationary forces killing their margins will be forced to look for any and all ways to cut costs. How are they going to do that? You guessed it... AI. Not only will they increase prices, they will cut labour

Spent three hours yesterday on back-to-back calls with 30 CTOs from Series B through public companies The conversation was always the same. "We're moving to AI-native architecture by end of Q1 2027" Translation: 60-70% workforce reduction across engineering orgs within 18

Just got off a 3 hour call with a top tech executive (you’d recognize the name…) I can't say much right now but March 10th will start the biggest layoffs we’ve seen since the Great Recession Most people have no idea whats about to happen...