US Job Market Visualizer

Data is coming from BLS. Their data lags the true state of affairs, and their growth projections are never reliable. Remember when they touted from 2000-2010 that Actuaries are the hottest growing field with the best forward looking outlook?

BLS forward looking guidance means nothing when technology revolutionizes the nature of work.

Re: US Job Market Visualizer

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Post by bigyikes » Mon, Mar 16, 2026, 4:01 PM UTC

tencentshill wrote: post #3

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Does it matter if the author is a renowned expert in the field?

Re: US Job Market Visualizer

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Post by paxys » Mon, Mar 16, 2026, 4:02 PM UTC

bigyikes wrote: post #5

tencentshill wrote: post #3

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Does it matter if the author is a renowned expert in the field?

Expert in AI != expert in labor markets.

All the "research" on the site comes from a single LLM prompt.

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Post by orphea » Mon, Mar 16, 2026, 4:03 PM UTC

bigyikes wrote: post #5

tencentshill wrote: post #3

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Does it matter if the author is a renowned expert in the field?

No. You can be an expert in one field, and have no idea what you're doing in another.

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Post by throwaw12 » Mon, Mar 16, 2026, 4:04 PM UTC

tencentshill wrote: post #3

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The VIEW could be AI slop, but underlying CONTENT has some meaning.

There is definitely impact on Software engineering jobs at the moment, interns/juniors are struggling to find jobs, companies are squeezing every bit of dev slack time to produce more stuff with AI.

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Post by paxys » Mon, Mar 16, 2026, 4:06 PM UTC

> You are an expert analyst evaluating how exposed different occupations are to AI. You will be given a detailed description of an occupation from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

> Rate the occupation's overall AI Exposure on a scale from 0 to 10.

The sad part isn't that this is low-effort AI slop, but that intelligent people and policy makers are going to see it and probably make important decisions impacting themselves and others based on these numbers.

Re: US Job Market Visualizer

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Post by visarga » Mon, Mar 16, 2026, 4:08 PM UTC

If AI produces surplus where does it go? Not talking about investment backed datacenter buildout and AI labs. Talking about the results of AI work...

I think AI outcomes distribute to contexts where it is used, and produce a change in how we work, what work we take on. Competition takes care of taking those surpluses and investing them in new structure, which becomes load bearing and we can't do without it anymore.

In the end it looks like we are treading water, just like it was when computers got 1M times faster in a couple of decades, but we felt very little improvement in earnings or reduction in work.

Surplus becomes structure and the changed structure is something you can't function without. Like the cell and mitochondrion, after they merged they can't be apart, can't pay their costs individually anymore. Surplus is absorbed into the baseline cost.