The 25-year-old dichotomy: frontier-lab data broking machines vs. grads who can't crack interviews
dhruv2038 · x · 2026-10-11
shuvi observes a stark split among today's 25-year-olds: a few are building or leveraging differentiated access to frontier lab researchers to run multi-level data-broking businesses, while many have no idea how to crack an interview in an increasingly tight labor market — a harsh snapshot of how AI-era access to scarce resources has become a business of its own.
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