Systems · September 04, 2026
WANTED: TEN YEARS' EXPERIENCE IN SOMETHING INVENTED IN 2022
ChatGPT is three years and nine months old and the ads ask for ten years with it. AI job titles went from 264 to 822 in four years while total postings rose 6 percent. Companies now appoint officers for a thing their own engineers cannot define. Years of experience were a proxy for depth. The proxy failed because the pipes are three years old, and the form still rejects the honest answer.