Kid graduated Berkeley CS three weeks ago with $183k in student debt and zero job prospects His cohort of 340 CS majors? 31 have offers. The rest are competing for internships that now require 3 years experience. LinkedIn shows him as "actively seeking" while watching his classmates pivot to product management, consulting, anything that isn't engineering The brutal part: he spent his final semester learning advanced algorithms and distributed systems Meanwhile every "entry-level" posting now lists "AI/ML experience" as a basic requirement. They want someone who can ship features using Cursor and manage offshore teams from day one. His professors told him junior roles were about learning on the job. That world ended somewhere between GPT-4 and Sonnet 3.5. Companies realized they don't need someone to write boilerplate anymore. They need someone who can review AI-generated code and catch the edge cases. The new math: one L5 engineer with Claude can do what a full junior dev team did 24 months ago His $183k debt assumes a starting salary that no longer exists for someone at his level The entry-level SWE role is extinct. The market just hasn't told the universities yet.