Shivani

Product Mgmt @Microsoft Azure Edge Infra and Core. Alumni@Babson & WPI, mother of tomorrow's future.

[Shivani @Shivanipradhan]

#4thJuly #SF #250YearsStrong #GoldenGate #Karl

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Big Tech just quietly repriced the value of a college degree to near zero.

The Magnificent Seven (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Tesla) went from new grads making up over 50% of new hires pre-pandemic to 25% in 2023 to 7% today. Entry-level positions across all of tech saw a 73% decrease in hiring rates in the past year alone, per Ravio’s data. This isn’t a cycle. This is a structural elimination of the junior role.

The reasoning is cold but defensible. 37% of managers say they’d rather use AI than hire a new grad. 89% actively avoid hiring recent graduates. Lack of real-world experience (60%), poor teamwork (55%), high training costs (53%). When a Cursor subscription costs $20/month and a junior dev costs $120K loaded with 6 months of ramp time before they’re net-positive, the math stops working.

Here’s what actually changed. Pre-pandemic, junior hires were cheap labor that eventually became mid-level talent. The training cost was the price of the pipeline. But AI tools collapsed the productivity gap between a senior engineer with Copilot and a team of three juniors. One senior dev augmented by AI now ships what used to require a senior plus two juniors doing the scaffolding work. The junior role wasn’t eliminated by malice. It was eliminated by margin pressure.

Computer science grads now have a 6.1% unemployment rate, on par with fine arts graduates. 52% of college grads work jobs that don’t require a degree. Unemployment for 20-to-24-year-olds hit 8.3%, more than double the rate for workers 25-54.

The university system is still selling a $200K product optimized for a hiring pipeline that no longer exists. Four years of coursework preparing students for entry-level roles that companies have decided they don’t need to fill.

This 7% isn’t a temporary dip. Every CS program still telling freshmen “learn to code and Big Tech will hire you” is selling a map to a city that moved.

[Earth_Wanderer @earth_tracker]

Married life in one video 😂

[Shivani @Shivanipradhan]

@paniqroom @paniqroom Your Policy says "All sales are final. We do not issue refunds for cancellations, no-shows, or late arrivals."
How do you hold your own self accountable when your event host doesn't showup at all! They dont pick up the phone line. Mailbox is full!

[Shivani @Shivanipradhan]

@paniqroom Your Policy says "All sales are final. We do not issue refunds for cancellations, no-shows, or late arrivals."
How do you hold your own self accountable when your event host doesn't showup at all! They dont pick up the phone line. Mailbox is full!

[Shivani @Shivanipradhan]

@paniqroom We waited for 30 minutes for virtula escape room to start. We arrived early and we are still waiting on the screen saying

[Oliver Prompts @oliviscusAI]

Google just dropped another banger 🤯

It’s called PaperBanana, a new tool that generates publication-ready academic illustrations directly from your methodology text.

100% Free.

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

R.I.P. basic prompting.

MIT just dropped a technique that makes ChatGPT reason like a team of experts instead of one overconfident intern.

It’s called “Recursive Meta-Cognition” and it outperforms standard prompts by 110%.

Here’s the prompt (and why this changes everything) 👇

[Shivani @Shivanipradhan]

@Clorox I have been a very loyal customer for decades & I am so done with the bad quality of spray bottles! I am not exaggerating when I say every other spray bottle’s handle stops functioning ! It STOPS working while 95% content is still there!! So frustrating #unhappyCustomer

[Shebani Sethi, MD @ShebaniMD]

I’m proud to share the results of my pilot trial investigating the therapeutic effects of a #ketogenicdiet on bipolar and schizophrenia, published in @PsychiatryResJ.

📈 We found promising improvements in BOTH metabolic and psychiatric outcomes: https://t.co/hheCUNg3ST

[Thomas Carrieri @Thomas_Carrieri]

If a player did this to Bill Belichick during a Super Bowl they'd be benched and cut by halftime. 😂

[Shivani @Shivanipradhan]

@kairyssdal Open AI board in a coup attempt fires Sam ( CEO & founder of OpenAI) 
Co founder & President -Greg quits 

Satya steps in & hires them both 🥰🥳

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

A life lesson..

[Amazing Physics @amazing_physics]

Amazing Physics

[DevOps Weekly @DevopsDiscu]

Why is Kubernetes adoption so hard?

https://t.co/CaxzViT6Hh

Discussions: https://t.co/VQKy3cSwUP

#devops #kubernetes

[Laurie Garrett @Laurie_Garrett]

God, I love cephalopods -- utterly amazing, brilliant creatures.
https://t.co/RrUIIVxlh8
(Please stop eating octopus and squid.)

[Hugo Chrost @chrost_hugo]

Neurons making connections.

Credits: Leigh Needleman

#neuroscience

[Mark Hamill @MarkHamill]

Hope you all had as much fun watching #ROTJ on the big-screen as we had making it. ❤️

[Zain Kahn @heykahn]

ChatGPT is just a drop in the massive ocean of AI.

21 powerful AI tools that will save you hours of boring work:

[Zain Kahn @heykahn]

GPT-4 will make you superhuman.

But only if you know how to use it effectively.

Here are 10 ways you can start using GPT-4 today: