AI & Jobs AI Was Supposed to Kill Engineering Jobs. It Cut Managers Instead.
New hiring data reported June 24 shows the AI-kills-coders story has it backwards: engineering held up while middle management absorbed the cuts.
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AI & Jobs New hiring data reported June 24 shows the AI-kills-coders story has it backwards: engineering held up while middle management absorbed the cuts.
AI & Jobs CNN says the software engineering interview is broken — banned-AI rules clash with on-the-job AI dependence, and Anthropic admits it had to rewrite its own technical questions.
AI & Jobs Multiple outlets reported between April 29 and May 1 that Anthropic has preemptive offers to raise around $50 billion at a valuation of roughly $850–900 billion. The board meeting that finalizes it is scheduled for May. Annual revenue run rate has gone from ~$9B at end-2025 to roughly $30–40B today — most of the growth from coding-agent products. The chart that won the valuation argument is the same chart that explains why entry-level engineering hiring is collapsing.
AI & Jobs On April 24, Sundar Pichai told Cloud Next 2026 that 75% of new code at Google is now AI-generated and engineer-approved — up from 50% last fall. Three hours later, Bloomberg's editorial board ran a piece arguing the AI job apocalypse is being delayed. Both can be true. Only one ships to production.