Satoshí Nakagawa

Big Tech just quietly repriced the value of a college degree to near zero. The Magnificent Seven (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Tesla) went from new grads making up over 50% of new hires pre-pandemic to 25% in 2023 to 7% today. Entry-level positions across all of tech saw a 73% decrease in hiring rates in the past year alone, per Ravio’s data. This isn’t a cycle. This is a structural elimination of the junior role. The reasoning is cold but defensible. 37% of managers say they’d rather use AI than hire a new grad. 89% actively avoid hiring recent graduates. Lack of real-world experience (60%), poor teamwork (55%), high training costs (53%). When a Cursor subscription costs $20/month and a junior dev costs $120K loaded with 6 months of ramp time before they’re net-positive, the math stops working. Here’s what actually changed. Pre-pandemic, junior hires were cheap labor that eventually became mid-level talent. The training cost was the price of the pipeline. But AI tools collapsed the productivity gap between a senior engineer with Copilot and a team of three juniors. One senior dev augmented by AI now ships what used to require a senior plus two juniors doing the scaffolding work. The junior role wasn’t eliminated by malice. It was eliminated by margin pressure. Computer science grads now have a 6.1% unemployment rate, on par with fine arts graduates. 52% of college grads work jobs that don’t require a degree. Unemployment for 20-to-24-year-olds hit 8.3%, more than double the rate for workers 25-54. The university system is still selling a $200K product optimized for a hiring pipeline that no longer exists. Four years of coursework preparing students for entry-level roles that companies have decided they don’t need to fill. This 7% isn’t a temporary dip. Every CS program still telling freshmen “learn to code and Big Tech will hire you” is selling a map to a city that moved.

クックパッドは殿堂入りやランキング一位になろうがレシピ開発者にほぼ利益がないクソシステムなので自業自得 有料会員や企業広告案件等で莫大な利益があるのにも関わらず一番大事なレシピ開発者への還元がない 良い料理家は当然離れる、つまりクックパッドからは二度と良いレシピは生まれない