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AI vs Crypto: Which Hype Cycle Actually Created Jobs on Hacker News?

The AI/ML hiring wave versus the blockchain/crypto wave on Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' posts, each bucket as one bar, charted by share since 2011, with the real listings.

Compare Machine Learning / Deep learning / LLM / Generative ai / NLP vs Blockchain / Crypto / Web3 in the Who Is Hiring? tool
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How the lead changes hands

Here are the two great hype cycles head to head, each gathered into one bucket: AI, machine learning and LLM on one side; blockchain, crypto and web3 on the other. The relative bands show their very different shapes - crypto's sharp spike and fade against AI's steady build and post-2022 surge - answering which wave actually became durable hiring. Read the sample postings behind each bucket to see how the roles differed.

The real postings behind each

Machine Learning / Deep learning / LLM / Generative ai / NLP14,087 postings · peak Aug 2021
  1. Phrasing.app | CTO | EU Remote I've spent the last 18 months iterating on Phrasing, a language learning app for polyglots. It's finally reached a stable point, and we're starting to get Daily Active Users. I've been using it every day for over a month now to learn over a dozen…

  2. Delfina [ https: delfina.com ] | Software engineers (data, full stack, backend, devops) | ONSITE (hybrid) | NYC, SF, Seattle, Boston Delfina provides a leading pregnancy care data platform to improve maternal and child health outcomes. Our motivating challenge is the fact that…

  3. Amazon – Economic Decision Science | SDE II | Full Time | ONSITE London, UK We’re hiring a Software Development Engineer for our team at Amazon: Economic Decision Science (London, UK). We're working in an extremely interesting space at the Intersection of Economics, Machine…

Blockchain / Crypto / Web32,852 postings · peak Aug 2021
  1. Privy | Onsite NYC (Preferred) or Remote | Hybrid Product Eng, Frontend Fullstack, Backend Roles | Full-Time | https: privy.io Hi, I'm Asta, CTO at the digital identity startup Privy. We build an authentication and cryptographic key management SDK that hundreds of companies…

  2. Chorus One | https: chorus.one careers | Platforms Engineer | REMOTE (Switzerland ± 6 hours) Chorus One operates validators on many proof-of-stake blockchains (the ones where security is based on a Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus algorithm rather than wasting energy). We are…

  3. Quantstamp | https: quantstamp.com | Remote | Full-time Quantstamp’s mission is to secure the decentralized internet, and has protected over $200B in digital asset risk from hackers. More than 500 startups, foundations and enterprises work with Quantstamp to keep their…

Two hype cycles head to head: the AI/ML bucket versus the blockchain/crypto bucket.

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