The hardest role for AI startups to hire: the cynical ex-humanities grad
arthurcolle · x · 2026-10-10
A viral AI-industry hiring meme describes the hardest role to fill right now: 30-35, former humanities grad student, five minutes late to every call finishing a cigarette, nocturnal and refusing pre-noon meetings, delivering key work at 3am, disdainful of post-1980 culture, too cynical to believe in your venture, working in tech only for the money, compulsively posting vitriol on Twitter — still calling it Twitter — and hating you.