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After the Gaokao, many major company internships have opened up to soon-to-be freshmen, meaning high school graduates can start internships immediately, potentially accumulating up to 5 years of work experience by their senior year of college.

A consultant reflects on how AI is taking over the knowledge-based part of their job, forcing a shift towards execution intelligence and orchestrating AI agents, and asks others how their work has changed.

This article deeply analyzes the early career of AMD CEO Lisa Su, focusing on her choices at MIT and IBM to research hardcore technical problems such as SOI and copper interconnects, and actively supplementing her business judgment, emphasizing her judgment to pick hard, specific, and deliverable problems rather than chasing trends.

Anthropic announces a $150 million national fellowship program to help early-career individuals extend AI benefits across American communities.

Ajey Gore explores how AI is reshaping tech roles by automating translation-like tasks while amplifying judgement work, offering a role-by-role breakdown of what changes and what grows.

A tweet outlines the expected skills for AI/ML engineers in 2026, emphasizing the need for a full-stack understanding of the AI/ML lifecycle including Python, ML frameworks, MLOps, cloud deployment, and system design.

The author replies to comments on their viral post about LLMs eroding their software engineering career, discussing how AI automation is reducing the need for deep domain knowledge in fintech and the challenges of maintaining diligence in a vibecoding culture.

A former Atlassian engineer shares a detailed retrospective on eight years of work before being laid off, covering the technical systems he built including an Open Service Broker, an Envoy-based control plane called Sovereign, and large-scale proxy infrastructure on AWS.

Gergely Orosz recounts Kelsey Hightower's inspiring journey from DSL technician to Distinguished Engineer at Google and Microsoft, with key lessons on side hustles, explaining startups without AI, and compensation negotiation.

Compliance is becoming the next super track: Over the past 20 years, the second fastest-growing profession in the US is compliance officer, with 400,000 practitioners and $40 billion in annual salary expenditure, but no real software giant has captured the market.

AI is creating a new class of highly productive individual contributors, shifting from 10x to 50x employees, enabling anyone to unlock career benefits by using AI.

AI is reshaping the workplace, creating what is called "50x employees". Anyone who deeply uses AI can unlock enormous career dividends, replacing the traditional 10x engineer model.

A Hacker News user asks the community about the current state of iOS and Android app development in 2026, focusing on AI's impact and career prospects.

A commentary arguing that AI is creating a new class of 'super-ICs' (individual contributors) who can achieve 50x productivity, marking a reset in career dynamics.

Andrew Ng discusses the rising role of AI Forward Deployed Engineers and predicts that the AI Engineer role will become more specialized, with demand outpacing that for FDEs.

Philosophers are increasingly being hired by top AI labs like DeepMind and Anthropic to address ethical and alignment issues, while AI is also reshaping philosophy curricula at universities.

This Wired article presents an unscientific quiz based on expert forecasts on how AI might affect various occupations by 2030, particularly white-collar jobs.

A reflection on why learning programming languages remains valuable even as AI generates code, emphasizing the need for foundational knowledge to effectively work with AI.

A discussion about whether spending two years on a Master's degree or using an advanced AI tool ($200/month) for intensive self-learning would better serve career prospects in 2028 and beyond.

Claude's CEO Dario Amodei published a 38-page open letter, precisely predicting which jobs will survive the AI era, and providing a reasoning framework that turns AI from a substitute into an advantage. The article also gives 9 Claude prompts based on that methodology.