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This mis-identifies the purpose of intern programs.

Interns aren't there to get a bunch done. They're there to evaluate them and convince them to come back after graduation.

Even with Cursor + Claude (maybe even because of them?) there is still demand to hiring software engineers. Intern programs are hiring pipelines.



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