What if we flipped the internships/co-ops to run during fall and spring and go to school ONLY during summer? Wouldn't it be better for the students as they will seamlessly integrate into work?
That Stanford CS graduating class of 2026 just hit the job market
394 total graduates. 23 have full-time offers. Twenty-fucking-three.
The rest? 127 are doing unpaid "AI apprenticeships" at startups that promise equity. 89 pivoted to product management bootcamps they're paying for with credit cards. 52 are substitute teaching while "building their portfolio."
The remaining 103 are driving DoorDash, bartending, or back home with their parents applying to customer support roles that require CS degrees
Career services is telling them it's a "market adjustment" and to "stay positive"
Same week Stanford reported a $43.7 billion endowment increase
Two years ago this exact program had a 94% placement rate by graduation. Starting salaries averaged $185k.
This year the 23 lucky ones? Average offer is $78k. At companies that didn't exist 18 months ago. Building "AI-native workflows" with teams of 4 people doing what used to take 30.
The professors are still teaching advanced algorithms to kids who'll never write a sorting function
While recruiters scroll LinkedIn looking for "AI prompt engineers with 5+ years experience"
One kid told me his database systems professor just got replaced by a chatbot that grades assignments faster
The irony is suffocating
At this point, AI for enterprise is basically ERP from the past:
- Adoption into enterprise workflow is complex
- implementations aren’t taking off successfully without a lot of hand holding
And..
- need consultants to implement, train and help with adoption
#historyrhymes
I am not aging . I have memory like an LLM
- can’t maintain continuity between conversations
- start every interaction afresh
- don’t carry context from previous threads.
Thanks for this eye opening revelation @bbalfour@reforge
@danmartell We don’t want to make you a task list. We don’t want to have to remind you about things you agreed to do. That just adds to our todo list. Reduce the mental overload & invisible work we are doing. Hug later.
@danmartell Interesting that the thought is “all women need is a hug from her man”. Maybe if you interview women, the answer will be different. Women need men to take full ownership and accountability of parts of running the household. The hug can wait.
Just found the difference between 3 vs 4 scoops of coffee. I hated my previous version but now love my new version of coffee. Did the 4th scoop make all the difference..nope. It was the magic of the 4 scoops coming together. 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔