AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds
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AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds
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Re: AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds
#2I built a digital internship for this very reason, to help the pre-entry level interns get work experience. Given ai has mostly replaced their admin work load.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48914589
Re: AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds
#3I wish there were studies on when this situation will normalize. Will the lost jobs ever come back? Or not?
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#4Re: AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds
#5The article assumes that jobs that can be automated are vulnerable. But in the postmortem of the AI driven layoffs so far, it's more that expectations about AI and productivity are driving the job cuts.
In other words shareholders and senior management are being shown the appearance of expectations about AI being met, whether or not it's working. Entry-level jobs are an obvious place to look things that can be cut to create an AI budget.
Re: AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds
#6The article assumes that jobs that can be automated are vulnerable. But in the postmortem of the AI driven layoffs so far, it's more that expectations about AI and productivity are driving the job cuts. In other words shareholders and senior management are being shown the appearance of expectations about AI being met, whether or not it's working. Entry-level jobs are an obvious place to look things that can be cut to…
Yep if a hiring manager wants to open a req for a junior, before AI he'd get praise for being tight with budget and hiring someone cheap and trainable.
Now he gets asked: if a junior can do the work why aren't you using AI? So instead of opening the req he says to the team "we need to figure out how to make AI do more."
Re: AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds
#7I wish there were studies on when this situation will normalize. Will the lost jobs ever come back? Or not?
What kind of study could predict the future like this? Every technological change is different each time, I think.
For example - at first ATMs created more jobs in banking because employees could move to more complex services. But banks are back to downsizing after further advancements streamlined those services too, aiui.
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#8this is a super non-popular take on HN.
but the entry-level job market has always been tough.
with AI, outside the big tech world, it is hard to justify hiring entry level engineers as the time to train them ( 1 year+ ) to be productive enough is such a drag on the seniors, when the agents deliver things more care and more edge cases.
Re: AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds
#9I wish there were studies on when this situation will normalize. Will the lost jobs ever come back? Or not?
Those jobs aren’t coming back as-is, because AI isn’t going anywhere. Job markets change over time.
I’ve just started transitioning my career closer to management, so I develop/manage roughly 50/50. At this point, if I had to manage a tight budget, I’d rather have an entry level salary as tokens for a senior engineer.
We’ll need a way, as a society, to help new adults transitions from education to productive employee. But individual companies don’t have aligned incentives.
Re: AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds
#10Partly this is because the big companies are diverting vast amounts of money towards building data centers, instead of hiring new grads. I expect young people who learn AI skills will be fine, once the data center spending binge is over.