Tech Industry job layoffs looking scary

[JT-Money]

Tech companies laid off 280,000 employees in 2024; 11,000 in 2025 already​

Tech companies laid off 280,000 employees in 2024; 11,000 in 2025 already

The global tech industry experienced a turbulent year in 2024 with no signs of slowing down. According to a report by RationalFX, 280,991 employees lost their jobs as companies wrestled with economic uncertainty and shifting market demands.

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[bnew]

AI Company Asks Job Applicants Not to Use AI in Job Applications

Anthropic, the developer of the conversational AI assistant Claude, doesn’t want prospective new hires using AI assistants in their applications, regardless of whether they’re in marketing or engineering.

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AI Company Asks Job Applicants Not to Use AI in Job Applications​

Samantha Cole

· Feb 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM

Anthropic, the developer of the conversational AI assistant Claude, doesn’t want prospective new hires using AI assistants in their applications, regardless of whether they’re in marketing or engineering.

Unsplash / Claude logo via Anthropic

Anthropic, the company that made one of the most popular AI writing assistants in the world, requires job applicants to agree that they won’t use an AI assistant to help write their application.

“While we encourage people to use AI systems during their role to help them work faster and more effectively, please do not use AI assistants during the application process,” the applications say. “We want to understand your personal interest in Anthropic without mediation through an AI system, and we also want to evaluate your non-AI-assisted communication skills. Please indicate 'Yes' if you have read and agree.”

Anthropic released Claude, an AI assistant that’s especially good at conversational writing, in 2023.

This question is in almost all of Anthropic’s nearly 150 currently-listed roles, but is not in some technical roles, like mobile product designer. It’s included in everything from software engineer roles to finance, communications, and sales jobs at the company.

The field was spotted by Simon Willison, an open source developer. The question shows Anthropic trying to get around a problem it’s helping create: people relying so heavily on AI assistants that they struggle to form opinions of their own. It’s also a moot question, as Anthropic and its competitors have created AI models so indistinguishable from human speech as to be nearly undetectable.

These AI models are also replacing the kinds of roles Anthropic is hiring for, leaving people in communications and coding fields searching for employment.

Last month, after Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a model so good it threw U.S. AI companies into a tailspin, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said that the race to make more, better, and faster AI models is “existentially important.”

And last year, Anthropic’s data scraper, which it uses to feed its AI assistant models the kind of human-produced work the company requires applicants to demonstrate, systematically ignored instructions to not scrape websites and hit some sites millions of times a day.

Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

 

[#1 pick]

At some point, I have to transition into an EFFECTIVE business. This shyt out here is ROUGH. I built a business for some shyt I love and that shyt has BOMBED.

 

[#1 pick]

AI Company Asks Job Applicants Not to Use AI in Job Applications

Anthropic, the developer of the conversational AI assistant Claude, doesn’t want prospective new hires using AI assistants in their applications, regardless of whether they’re in marketing or engineering.

www.404media.co

AI Company Asks Job Applicants Not to Use AI in Job Applications​

Samantha Cole

· Feb 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM

Anthropic, the developer of the conversational AI assistant Claude, doesn’t want prospective new hires using AI assistants in their applications, regardless of whether they’re in marketing or engineering.

Unsplash / Claude logo via Anthropic

Anthropic, the company that made one of the most popular AI writing assistants in the world, requires job applicants to agree that they won’t use an AI assistant to help write their application.

“While we encourage people to use AI systems during their role to help them work faster and more effectively, please do not use AI assistants during the application process,” the applications say. “We want to understand your personal interest in Anthropic without mediation through an AI system, and we also want to evaluate your non-AI-assisted communication skills. Please indicate 'Yes' if you have read and agree.”

Anthropic released Claude, an AI assistant that’s especially good at conversational writing, in 2023.

This question is in almost all of Anthropic’s nearly 150 currently-listed roles, but is not in some technical roles, like mobile product designer. It’s included in everything from software engineer roles to finance, communications, and sales jobs at the company.

The field was spotted by Simon Willison, an open source developer. The question shows Anthropic trying to get around a problem it’s helping create: people relying so heavily on AI assistants that they struggle to form opinions of their own. It’s also a moot question, as Anthropic and its competitors have created AI models so indistinguishable from human speech as to be nearly undetectable.

These AI models are also replacing the kinds of roles Anthropic is hiring for, leaving people in communications and coding fields searching for employment.

Last month, after Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a model so good it threw U.S. AI companies into a tailspin, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said that the race to make more, better, and faster AI models is “existentially important.”

And last year, Anthropic’s data scraper, which it uses to feed its AI assistant models the kind of human-produced work the company requires applicants to demonstrate, systematically ignored instructions to not scrape websites and hit some sites millions of times a day.

Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

They gotta blame themselves. We used to not use AI for resumes but when I have to apply for a bulk number of jobs and I have to tailor each job to the JD, it's impossible for the old method which was, use one resume for all that showcases the best of you. Instead, we can't do that as we wouldn't pass the ATS system. Anthropic fukked the industry up and now are saying, why are you using tools to help yourself. Don't adapt, get left behind.

 

[JLova]

I gotta get out of tech.

 

[#1 pick]

I gotta get out of tech.

Tech is such bullshyt right now. I am really trying to find a niche that works for me. Being able to make 100k on my own is really my goal at this point. Once I hit that which I am not even close atm. Then I want 200k. Then 500k. Then 1 million. Working for the man earned me some good skills but it's time for me to put this into action for myself. This industry is wicked.

 

[Apollo Creed]

Stay strong and plan that exit plan brehs

 

[JT-Money]

 

[skyrunner1]

Dam not sure if this goes here but my boy just got the memo of back to office as federal worker in the dmv area.. Had a good dam near 5 year run..

Gonna have to drop the other gig and part time postal gig also.. sheesh

 

[Brolic]

Dam not sure if this goes here but my boy just got the memo of back to office as federal worker in the dmv area.. Had a good dam near 5 year run..

Gonna have to drop the other gig and part time postal gig also.. sheesh

Yea, I heard all the fed workers have to return by march

 

[JT-Money]

 

[Blessings]

I gotta get out of tech.

It's nasty out here smh
Constant layoffs and replacing US employees with foreign firms (Grazitti Interactive, Rimini Street, etc)

 

[JLova]

It's nasty out here smh
Constant layoffs and replacing US employees with foreign firms (Grazitti Interactive, Rimini Street, etc)

Almost 20 years of this shyt.

 

[TRUEST]

Tech is such bullshyt right now. I am really trying to find a niche that works for me. Being able to make 100k on my own is really my goal at this point. Once I hit that which I am not even close atm. Then I want 200k. Then 500k. Then 1 million. Working for the man earned me some good skills but it's time for me to put this into action for myself. This industry is wicked.

That’s my guy!