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the L1 support engineer. the KYC analyst. the manual QA tester running test cases. the compliance reviewer. those are the jobs 300,000 Indian graduates used to enter tech through. AI is eating that layer first and nobody is building a bridge over it. what is the first rung of the ladder now

Oracle cut 21,000 jobs globally this year, around 12,000 of them in India. then in September another wave, 3,000 more here. what gets me is the method: system access off at 4am, Slack disconnected by 5:30, email at 6. you find out by failing to log in to your own laptop

dell's zinnov research says 55% of routine work inside indian GCCs is exposed to AI automation, and nearly 60% of the workforce will need reskilling by 2030. that is not a skills problem. that is a demand problem. the work those people were doing is being done by something that does not need reskilling

i teach second-year engineering. i have watched the placement conversation change in three years. it used to be 'which company'. now it's 'is there a company'. the students are not less capable. the question they are being asked changed. that is the whole difference and nobody has told them it isn't their fault

90% of devs still review or validate AI output. 79% require human approval before production. the cost is the top barrier to broader agent use at 30%, ahead of integration at 20% and governance at 20%. we are not short of oversight. we are short of budget

an AI/ML hiring jump of 260% sounds like a boom. the same data says 49% of that demand is for 3-5 years experience. the boom has an age requirement. if you are 22 the growth rate is not a number about you, it's a number about the market you will enter in four years

a person in tech can now do in a week what their team did in a quarter. that's true and it's the best thing about this moment. it is also true that the same person may not be able to explain why the original quarter was necessary. both things. the second one is where the senior jobs are

everyone posting 'AI took my job' from 2023 with a fake LinkedIn banner is why this conversation has no credibility. AI didn't take anyone's job in 2023. AI took nobody's job. it was a content cycle. this year it took 175,000 and that is not content, that is a quarter

students and colleges are both still working off the 2015 model: do a degree, get a package, four years. the contract is broken at both ends. companies stopped buying the output of that contract and colleges kept selling it. both were behaving reasonably. that is what makes it hard

if you are under 30 in tech: learn one thing AI does not do well for you, and keep it. not a tool. a judgement. the ability to tell when a generated answer is confidently wrong is not a skill that improves with usage of the thing generating it. that's the one to keep

cool so i spent 2 years learning DSA to get a job and now the job wants AI and the AI needs 6 months of experience that nobody gave me. cool. love this for us. the pipeline has a gap in it and the gap is where my entire cohort is standing

22 of 23 IITs saw placement drop. 27 of 31 NITs. average package down. placement cell says 'focus on skill development'. bro the problem was never skills. the problem is 2020 had a hiring boom and 2026 doesn't and no skill can make a company exist

when they say 'junior and mid-level engineers doing lower-complexity tasks are most exposed over 2-3 years' — that is not a forecast about demand. that is a description of what has already happened. 2-3 years is how long it takes a cohort to be replaced by people who were hired before the change

55% of GCC routine work exposed to AI. bro that number should be printed on a banner at every campus and NOBODY is printing it because it would scare the placement season. we are being told a 4-year plan in 4 years of memes

my resume says 'proficient in AI/ML'. i have used copilot to fix a semicolon. that is the entire basis of the claim. 26% of hiring now wants AI skills and i have provided them. the bar is genuinely on the floor

a lot of us are in the same place: not unemployed, not safe. watching a number every quarter that is no longer assumed to go up. that is a specific kind of fear that has no name and no advice column. i have not found anyone who is handling it well. that might be the most honest thing i can post today

cybersecurity has been the only consistently strong line in indian tech hiring through the entire AI shift. if you are starting now and want a field that will exist in ten years with fewer people in it than the postings suggest, it is that one. boring answer, durable answer

90% of the code we ship has no human touch. that's what a founder of a company building AI agents said on stage in mumbai this month. 30,000 businesses use their agent product daily and india is 8-10% of revenue. read that number again: the largest talent pool on earth is 10% of the market for the thing that is replacing entry-level coding

nasscom launched a programme to train 1.5 lakh developers in AI. 1.5 lakh. against a workforce where 55% of routine work is exposed. the scale of the response is itself information: nobody knows how many of those 1.5 lakh roles will exist in 3 years, so they are training against a number nobody can give

junior devs report feeling less secure about their career than CTOs do: 50% vs 20%. that's inverted from every previous technology cycle, where the seniors were the anxious ones. the people at the bottom of the ladder are the anxious ones now. if you know a junior in tech, that's the conversation to have