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by georgemcbay 3 days ago
> Companies asking for 4 years of agentic AI experience… pardon?

Not that I am trying to excuse it, but this is not a new thing, nor specific to AI.

Job listings that ask for X years of experience where X years is sometimes literally longer than the technology has even existed has been a staple complaint of developers over my entire career, and I'm old af.
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dinfinity 3 days ago
My favorite in this regard is this story: https://x.com/tiangolo/status/1281946592459853830?lang=en

Sebastián Ramírez seeing a job requiring 4 years of experience with FastAPI, the library he created 1.5 years before that posting.

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gerdesj 3 days ago
A 10x engineer only needs about five months of experience.

So, leave college/uni with your "Desmond" (1) in comparative pornography in Feb 2026, buy a PC/Apple and by now you will be writing Windows Entra 2027 on your own.

Profit!

(1) Tutu - geddit!

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