A laid-off Blizzard veteran says AI didn't break tech hiring, it supercharged the rot (urflow.bearblog.dev)
The essayist argues AI didn't create a broken market but amplified its worst parts: CodePad, HackerRank and AI proctoring screen out honest applicants while being trivially gamed, and companies now fixate on "tokens burnt" over skill. The author also refuses to use AI coding on ethical grounds, citing artist friends and vanishing entry-level roles. A reply countered that this dysfunction is just the pre-AI 2022 layoff experience finally reaching the stably employed.
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