We are burying our heads in advanced calculus, custom neural networks, and deep mathematical architecture, only for the tech industry to tell us our brains are surplus to requirements. As third-year computer science students, looking at the junior job market right now is an absolute slap in the face.
Nearly 90% of entry-level openings don’t want engineers anymore—they want digital assembly-line workers who can copy-paste API tokens, tinker with prompt engineering, and stitch together basic wrappers. The deep, beautiful math of machine learning is being systematically erased by a corporate stampede toward cheap, superficial automation. By narrowing the pipeline to glorified “API wranglers,” European tech companies are actively choking out genuine innovation and leaving a generation of highly trained technical minds completely stranded. We didn’t grind through a grueling degree just to maintain third-party software. If the market keeps prioritizing quick-fix hype cycles over deep architectural mastery, it won’t just be our motivation that dies—the soul of European tech will go with it.
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