A college student asked for compute credits, not an internship
omooretweets · x · 2026-07-24
A poster says their first email from a college student was not asking for an internship or a coffee chat, but for compute credits.
The joke lands because it signals a shift in what young AI builders see as the scarce resource: not mentorship or introductions, but compute.
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