D's Nuts
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D's Nuts
@DustinBlanquar1
God. family. country. anti-communist






Recruiter with 15 years in Silicon Valley talent acquisition just sent me her Q1 numbers This woman placed 1,200+ engineers across her career. Knows every hiring manager from seed stage to IPE January 2026: 47 open reqs across her client portfolio March 2026: 3 open reqs. All requiring 10+ years experience plus AI orchestration skills One unicorn fintech she's worked with for 8 years just told her they're "pausing all human hiring indefinitely" Their engineering org went from 340 people in 2024 to 89 today. Same product roadmap. Same revenue targets She's seeing 2,847 applications per senior role now. Used to be 200 max Ghost rate hit 94% last month. Companies post roles, collect resumes, then hire nobody A payments company told her straight up: "Why hire 5 engineers when 1 senior plus Claude Sonnet ships faster?" Her biggest client - a logistics giant - replaced their entire mobile team with 2 staff engineers and an offshore pod using Cursor The offshore team costs $47K annually. The laid-off team was pulling $2.3M She showed me a Slack thread from last week: hiring manager asking if they should even keep posting jobs or just "let AI handle the pipeline" The woman who built her career on human connections is watching the industry stop hiring humans entirely She's pivoting to executive search. Only humans left worth recruiting are the ones deciding which humans to eliminate The math is simple: every company needs exactly one person smart enough to prompt the AI that replaces everyone else







Blue hair in the Pre Check line “I love your pendant, what tribe is that?” “Choctaw Nation, thank you.” “Where is that at?” “Oklahoma” “It’s really good to see the culture coming back- ” “I mean, it ain’t never left.” “Oh, of course! You know, can you believe all the stuff in MN?” “I know, right? It’s like they can’t deport them fast enough… I honestly wish they would just cut us wagon burners loose on them… do you like effigy mounds?” 👀 *brain breaks in half* Literally one of my favorite pass times. Never gets old.




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