#robo $ROBO bytes Tencent is hiring 17,000 people, Fabric Foundation lets AI be its own "worker"

The recruitment market has exploded in the past few days.

ByteDance and Tencent simultaneously announced their 2026 intern plans, collectively offering over 17,000 positions. ByteDance's R&D offers surpassed 4,800, setting a historical high, with surging demand for AI engineers and AI products.

The comments section is full of cheers: "Big companies are still hiring, AI hasn't taken my job!"

But looking closely at the job requirements reveals a sobering fact: by 2030, the global talent gap in AI may exceed 2.8 million, with a domestic supply-demand ratio as high as 3.5:1. These 17,000 positions are for "AI talent," not just "people." @Fabric Foundation

If you are not a fresh graduate who can write code, or an ordinary person who has been struggling in traditional industries for ten years, these opportunities have nothing to do with you.

So what can ordinary people do?

The World Economic Forum predicts that by 2030, technological advancements will create 170 million new jobs, but will also replace about 92 million existing jobs. AI is writing copy, coding, generating reports, and even autonomously executing complex tasks, leaving less and less space for humans.

In the past, handling all-day customer inquiries required 20 human customer service representatives; now only 2 specialists are needed to handle problems that robots cannot solve. Previously, unloading a 100,000-ton giant ship required 50 dockworkers; now only 1 remote operator is needed. @Fabric Foundation

What will happen to the remaining employees?

The logic of Fabric Foundation is different: let AI be its own "worker," while you are the "boss."

The OM1 operating system gives each AI an on-chain identity, equivalent to an employee number. The x402 protocol allows AI to handshake with service providers and settle payments using USDC, pay its own electricity bills, and purchase its own skill packages. The VPU chip reduces the cost of proving "I did the work" to two orders of magnitude cheaper than NVIDIA's H100, allowing self-verification for just a few cents.

Big companies are competing for AI talent. Fabric's approach is: make AI itself the "talent."

Currently, daily task calls exceed 25,000 times, with 12,400 active nodes and a task completion rate of 98.7%. Robots have already started to "work" on their own.

When AI can earn its own money, pay its own electricity bills, and buy skill packages to upgrade, you won't have to worry about being replaced—you just need to watch from the sidelines, waiting for its dividends at the end of the month.

The question is, when your AI "colleague" has a higher monthly salary than you, will you still feel comfortable lounging on the couch scrolling through your phone?