alt Hacker News> 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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gerdesj • today at 12:24 AM
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!
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.