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The Ideal Candidate

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2 months ago 2,691,797 views 2 shares

The Ideal Candidate

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Yahoo wants 10+ years of experience with Claude Code. You know, the AI coding assistant that launched in 2024. So they're looking for someone who's been using it since 2014. Before it existed. Makes perfect sense.

It's like requiring 15 years of Swift experience when Swift came out 10 years ago, except somehow more delusional because they want you to use an AI chatbot as your "primary development environment." Not VS Code with Claude integration. Not Cursor. Just... Claude Code. As if you're supposed to architect enterprise applications by having conversations with a chatbot.

Either this is the most elaborate troll job posting in tech history, or HR copied requirements from a fever dream. Either way, if you somehow have 10 years of experience with a tool from the future, you're probably too qualified for this role.

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