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AI ate BenPig's internship offer
Job posts quietly made “good with AI” a hard requirement, and suddenly nobody opened BenPig's human portfolio.
BenPig sent out thirty-seven internship applications and got two replies — both asking the same thing: which AI tools do you use? Nobody asked whether the work was good or the ideas were sharp.
Worse, one company said it plainly: this role used to take three interns, now it takes one person and a model. BenPig stared at the screen and felt, for the first time, like the remainder that gets rounded away.
But BenPig isn't folding. It started logging every “AI-first” line dropped in interviews, to build a side-by-side list: which bits are real efficiency, and which are just a tidy cover for cutting payroll.