Something I’ve been sitting with for a while. Gen Z and early-career people in AI have quietly developed a new habit: building in public. Posting projects on GitHub, sharing app demos on X, shipping AI-built tools, writing about the process, putting everything on a personal site. And a small but growing number of them are getting recruited directly from that output, not from job boards, not from career fairs. I’m a recent grad and honestly most of my classmates are still doing it the traditional way. Recruitment apps, alumni networks, campus job fairs. Which got me curious. So I had AI help me research this mismatch properly. Here’s what the data shows: the platforms where top tech talent actually spends time — GitHub, Stack Overflow, Twitter/X, niche Reddit subs — are almost entirely different from where most recruiters are looking, which is still LinkedIn and Indeed. The gap between those two lists is the opportunity. For anyone early in their career right now: “work in public” might be the highest-ROI career move that nobody in your university career center is telling you about. Curious about a few things: Has anyone here actually gotten an opportunity through GitHub, X, or Reddit, not a job board? And honestly, do you think this is a real structural shift, or survivorship bias from a few loud cases? submitted by /u/hellomari93
Originally posted by u/hellomari93 on r/ArtificialInteligence
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