Tech Talent Drop
Weekly insights on tech hiring, AI tools, recruitment strategies, and funding news, by Josh Smith.
Big Tech taps public markets, regulators try to centralize AI rules, and “AI customer support” becomes a security risk overnight
AI security goes mainstream, open-source gets a $5B fix, and hiring shifts hard toward AppSec + platform
Supply-chain attacks go mainstream, AI org charts reshape again, and electricity becomes a hiring constraint
AI infra orders hit $9B, developer agents go mobile, and security hiring keeps getting “urgent”
Cloudflare cut 20% for the agentic era, Europe is war-gaming AI cyberattacks, and data center economics are colliding with reality
Compute scales faster than policy, security teams get a new baseline, and agents move from “feature” to “operating layer”
One-year anniversary edition: AI spend accelerates, headcount compresses, and power politics hits hiring
Snap cut 16% citing AI code-gen, OpenAI shipped “computer-use” Codex, Anthropic dropped Opus 4.7, and inference capex just escalated again
Security hiring just became urgent, enterprise teams are being cut to fund compute, and the AI talent war is now C-suite level.
AI capex hit $635B, OpenAI closed $122B, Oracle started cuts, and Microsoft shipped in-house models
The last 7 days pushed hiring toward three realities: leaner orgs, tighter compute constraints, and more security-first workflows
AI infra keeps scaling, big tech tightens headcount, and security teams start treating hiring as an attack surface
