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I’ve shipped 150+ PRs and built AI agents in a day - but I still can’t get a job (opens in new tab)

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I'm writing this because I don't know what else to do. This is Neha. I am a software engineer. I have been coding for years, contributing to open source, building autonomous AI agents, and shipping production code into frameworks that are used by thousands of companies. But today I see an empty bank account and a calendar that tells me I have less than two weeks to figure something out. This is not a tale of woe. It’s a job application, but not the sort you are used to. What I’ve done in real...

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