A recruiter who's been placing engineers since the iPhone launch just quit after 15 years because she can't stomach what she's watching anymore Last month she posted a senior fullstack role at a unicorn fintech company 2,847 applications in 72 hours. Senior engineers with 8+ years at Google, Netflix, Stripe applying for mid-level positions 90% of applicants never got a rejection email. The ATS auto-filtered them into oblivion But here's the part that broke her: she found out the company wasn't actually hiring humans The job posting was live to "maintain competitive intelligence" while they built an AI agent to replace their entire payments engineering team She's been calling candidates back to apologize. Grown engineers crying on the phone about their third straight year of unemployment One guy told her he's applied to 1,200 positions since his Meta layoff. Has gotten exactly 4 human phone calls Another candidate: former principal architect, now working at Target for $16 an hour because his savings ran out The recruiting firm just assigned her 12 new "AI implementation specialist" roles Translation: they need someone to fire the humans and train the robots She cleaned out her desk yesterday. Twenty-three years in talent acquisition. Says she'd rather sell insurance than be complicit in this genocide The job market isn't broken. It's been deliberately demolished And every recruiter still posting "we're hiring!" is either lying or hasn't figured out they're next