It's an easy thing to say without giving specific time frames. At least when Elon makes grand pronouncements he risks getting it horribly wrong. "told investors in May that she could see its operations head count falling by 10% in the coming years as the company uses new AI tools." Here's a time-frame a bit more specific then "in the coming years", but still vague: "Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in May that half of…
> Following on from cutting down entry-level jobs must imply cutting down on all those next levels up as well Only if the amount of employees in each level is uniform. I.e. if there are more entry level jobs than senior that wouldn't necessary be true.
The only fields where this is not true are where the entry level pipeline has disappeared, but that’s a temporary effect because those more senior people will eventually move on also.