🚨 DAVID SACKS: “Anthropic has a job listing for a software engineer on their website right now for $570,000 … So what Anthropic is saying is they're still trying to hire software engineers, at a very high wage, but somehow they think these jobs are going to be eliminated.”

They are hiring one $570,000 employee because they are firing 1,000 $150,000 employees.

plot twist: the job is to build the system that replaces the job you're hired to do

Yeah they want the most talented, most senior engineer to train their model. Thats how it will overtake jobs

It literally says at the bottom of the screenshot “this job may not exist in 12 months”

AI isn’t eliminating software engineers, it’s changing the profile of engineers companies need. Fewer roles, higher leverage, deeper expertise. That explains both automation fears and rising salaries.

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Sacks should know that AI won’t replace 570k hires but most likely 60 to 200k hires.

This isn’t a contradiction. AI collapses the middle of engineering, while massively increasing the leverage of the top tier. Fewer roles. Higher pay. More impact. $570k isn’t proof engineers aren’t being displaced, it’s proof the distribution is compressing.

I can't stand Anthropic. Elon/xAI will overtake them soon anyway. I won't spend any more money on Anthropic or OpenAI with leadership that just can't be trusted.

Just because there is a job listing does not mean they are actually trying to hire somebody. Ghost job listings are a thing and they are made for conclusions just like this .

This is a lure offer, to pump applications. Show interest - raise $. BTW, that agreement they "refused" to sign with the DoW, will get signed at some point. Every company will be forcefully cornered into it. Learn local AI - at least the basics.

Dude, they are being eliminated. Very much so. That doesn't mean 100% are, but a very very large chunk will be. Software engineering is fundamentally different. Director / Verifier pattern, aka software engineers are primarily doing prompt engineering and working with coding agents to do the actual coding. The ones that are good at this can write 5-10x more code in the same amount of time than they could before and probably a lot better code in many cases.

Denying statistics with a cherry picked example is peak disinformation. Disappointed in Sachs

If the argument is that AI can’t yet do jobs that command 600k on the open market currently is the best our AI czar can do to assuage fears, this means America is fucked. How about the jobs that pay 50k a year that actually affect 99% of society. Are those safe @DavidSacks? Get your head out of your ass and stop lying to people when your admin presents no plan other than “don’t worry about it, man”

This isn’t an entry level engineer. This is a highly technical person with years old experience. And or highly capable individual Entry levels jobs are lessening. It will be harder to get into the industry as it is already now

Boomers think AI works like an on/off switch. They need these engineers to build quality frameworks.

The paradox isn't that Anthropic is hiring engineers at $570K while claiming AI will replace coders. The paradox is that they're right on both counts. Here's what's actually happening:

Sacks has been dishonest about this particular issue for a while now. His arguments about job growth are not convincing, and do not line up with reality. AI will eliminate a large portion of jobs, and it will not lead to massive hiring due to increased labour demand.

Who’s gonna tell him 🤦🏻‍♂️

Pretty dumb statement. It's similar to saying, "You see, this farm is still hiring workers, when a modern farm only needs someone to remotely control a tractor, which eliminates dozens of other workers."

And it literally says the role may not exist in 12 months

Imagine you are trying to automate software engineering. Are you going to hire the best software engineers or average engineers to help you do it? The answer is extremely obvious.

The normies will eventually rise

lol this sounds like a idiot take from all in

IThe job posting itself literally states: “This role may not exist in 12 months.” Temporary hires aren’t great support for the need for human work.

Ridiculous take. This engineer is prob 30-50x more productive.

To build systems to eliminate those jobs lol

Did he not read the note that says it might not exist in 12 months?

one $570K engineer with AI tooling replaces five $150K engineers without it. anthropic is demonstrating the thesis, not contradicting it.

I am sorry that is a senior software engineer that is not a low tier entry level engineer those jobs are never coming back

"are going to be eliminated." Not right now, but 100% on the way out and it's engineers who will be doing this until the systems can start doing it for themselves.

It's like when the outsourcing companies pay employees for a short time to train their replacements offshore

Ppl who think AI will replace programmers are clueless. They haven't seen how they use AI and don't understand economics. The demand for sw is infinite and AI can't translate directly from the words of business people. It's definitely made me more productive though.

“So what Anthropic is saying is they're still trying to hire software engineers” Uhhh they’re saying they are hiring ONE software engineer. Not “engineers” plural

Read the bottom of that