Hiring engineers is trivially easy now — just not the ones you want
matt_slotnick · x · 2026-10-25
mattslotnick pushes back on @jaltma's claim that engineers are harder to hire and more expensive than ever: "it's actually trivially easy to hire engineers these days. just not the ones you want" — implying AI has lowered the floor for average engineers while top talent remains scarce.
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