A senior engineer with 15 years of experience told me she starts panicking on the 20th of every month.
I asked why.
She said her GitHub Copilot AI credits are almost exhausted by then, and without it, she literally cannot deliver work anymore.
15 years of experience. Panicking because an AI subscription is running low.
And I’m not laughing at her. I’m thinking about what this actually means.
Every company right now is quietly building a workforce that is 100% dependent on AI to write code, make decks, draft emails, do literally everything they used to do with their own hands and brain.
And the AI providers know this.
Once that dependency is deep enough and it already is for a lot of people, you will pay whatever they charge. Because the alternative is not being able to do your job at all.
We’ve seen it with cloud, with SaaS, with every platform that became infrastructure.
The difference this time is it’s not companies locked into a vendor. It’s individual human beings locked out of their own skills.
april 2026 saw new tech job postings hit a three-year high, with employers listing 271,483 new tech postings and more than 575,000 active openings.
tech occupation employment rose by an estimated 260,000 in april, pushing the tech unemployment rate down to 3.5%.
market is improving.
Is anyone hiring office managers for their IRL office in SF?
Someone great who helped a founder grow her practice as the cos/office manager over 10 years is looking for a new gig
how to use linkedin during a job search:
>pick 2 or 3 topics you want to be known for
>post about them consistently
>post on the day and time your network is most active
>let it signal boost you to the recruiters already looking
@Brutal_Realist_@pensandpoison Yeah, I don’t know exactly how the conversation went down but saying, “I have always enjoyed Dostoyevsky” just tells me your reading interests whereas mentioning your age is the equivalent of intellectual name dropping. And no one likes a name dropper. It lacks authenticity.
@speakfilms For real!! Maybe she is feeling low and torn apart from being exploited and she is expressing herself with these movements. Regardless, it’s not sexual because she said it wasn’t.
after reviewing probably 10k+ resumes in my career
people dont realize that everything is weighted on the first page
the most pertinent information should be in the top third of your resume
most decision makers decide to call you after the first page
Ten lazy years can disappear the moment you lock in. Six months of discipline can erase a decade of drifting. Momentum is magic. It turns yesterday's failures into tomorrow's fuel.