@simon Overall, the numbers seem to have fallen off...

@simon Overall, the numbers seem to have fallen off quite a bit this year. I lazily searched and linked the first one https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-13/looking-for-an-internship-fewer-spots-for-more-applicants-in-cutthroat-year

but I have heard a half dozen Bloomburg articles (my preferred morning finance/business news via Echo) that have been reporting on it for a while.

I would be shocked if 2025 isn't much worse.

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Simon Willison

@webology right, but is that because of AI, or is it because the tech companies all over-hired during the pandemic, had massive layoffs and as a result the market is flooded with experienced talent which makes the market for juniors really awful?

20 October at 23:43 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net

Jeff Triplett

@simon It's both, but 2025 will be more AI-driven than 2024 was. Now I hear at least once a week on podcasts like Marketing Against the Grain and whatever Greg Isenberg is one that Iterns are a waste of money over AI. So that's a trend you can calendar and we look at in a year and it will be more then norm.

20 October at 23:49 | Open on mastodon.social