AI Is Crushing Young Workers' Employment Prospects, Stanford Study Finds 160
Entry-level workers in AI-exposed occupations have seen employment drop 13% since late 2022, according to Stanford University research analyzing millions of payroll records. The decline affects software developers, customer service representatives, and administrative assistants aged 22 to 25, while employment for older workers in the same roles continued growing.
The study [PDF], based on ADP payroll data covering tens of thousands of firms, found the steepest drops in occupations where AI automates tasks rather than augments human capabilities. Among software developers aged 22-25, employment fell nearly 20% from its late 2022 peak.
Workers in less AI-exposed fields like nursing saw employment growth across all age groups. The research controlled for firm-level effects and other economic factors, isolating AI's impact from broader trends like interest rate changes and pandemic-era hiring patterns.
The study [PDF], based on ADP payroll data covering tens of thousands of firms, found the steepest drops in occupations where AI automates tasks rather than augments human capabilities. Among software developers aged 22-25, employment fell nearly 20% from its late 2022 peak.
Workers in less AI-exposed fields like nursing saw employment growth across all age groups. The research controlled for firm-level effects and other economic factors, isolating AI's impact from broader trends like interest rate changes and pandemic-era hiring patterns.
Eventually that will trickle up to everybody (Score:2, Interesting)
I guess we can all just go be plumbers right? Just like learn to code. Anyone here old enough to remember when biotech was what we were all going to be doing after the factories started automating?
Re:Eventually that will trickle up to everybody (Score:5, Insightful)
The jobs are still there, go look at any job board. The fact is, they want these articles out there to make people think their job is under pressure, not needed, etc. But one only need look at job boards to find it false.
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Correct. And the rich don't care where the work comes from so long as it's free to them.
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Are the jobs really there, or are they just being advertised? I've read a lot of comments about "ghost jobs".
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We can only make decisions based on what we are given, and if someone wants to flood the market with fake job postings, they are only encouraging our pay to go up, because we are in demand. Not my problem they are ignorant of reality.
Re: Eventually that will trickle up to everybody (Score:2)
The researchers who wrote the article do not have that vested interest. They were legit trying to test if the loss of jobs is real. Your response assumes they did not do their job. That is some serious paranoia/conspiracy theorizing.
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The goal here isnt to replace jobs, its to suppress wages.
That is flat out wrong. The goal was specifically to replace human beings in a wide swath of positions.
What makes AI unique is that, unlike say, the spreadsheet, it wasn't created to make workers more productive with some skill training. It was created to completely replace a major chunk of knowledge workers, maybe most of them. And it will. AI is a jobs extinction level event. Manual work will be unaffected... AI can't fix your toilet or lay mortar in a construction site, but it's going to be the asteroid
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The question will remain: Will the people who work at call centers now, get into coding, do a bootcamp, and then work as a software developer or just a stable code money..... will these people understand that their circumstances might not exist by the time they have gotten 2-5 tiers up the ladder?
This question bothers me far more than thinking about the job loss, because it mirrors former events: There is a lot of workers who managed to get on the first steps in the industrial output before the outsourcing
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It will not kill off most coding jobs, it's probably going to make them more necessary over time.
All this is doing is creating an experience gap. Junior programmers don't get a chance to learn what it takes to ship something. There's a lot of on-the-job experience that's hard to replicate, which seems like a facile observation—if it weren't true, we'd just teach it—but I think it's something that gets forgotten now and then.
LLMs simply do not write good code right now. They don't. It's code that
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Surface-level issues with LLMs, such as hallucinations, can be solved by programmatically providing the correct context. Deeper issues, such as the inability to perform deductive reasoning or analysis, will require completely new solutions. Until those solutions materialize, we will need people. I imagine the future junior dev will simply start out by learning how to do today's mid-level devs' work, while the very low level stuff will be relegated to LLMs.
That means feature design, optimization, debugging,
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AI is a jobs extinction level event. Manual work will be unaffected... AI can't fix your toilet or lay mortar in a construction site, but it's going to be the asteroid that kills off most coding jobs,
That seems unlikely.
It's 2025, FLOW-MATIC came out in 1955. Why FLOW-MATIC, well, it was the first attempt at making programming easier so programmers could be replaced with non programmers. In the intervening 70 years, we've had a veritable hailstorm of silver bullets[*] to make programming easier and replace
Re: Eventually that will trickle up to everybody (Score:2)
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There are several companies making really good progress on humanoid robots. Combined with good enough ai, those will be able to fix your toilet or lay mortar at a construction site. When they get good enough, they will be able to do practically any job a human can do.
AI-enhanced robotics will replace humans on a number of manual labor positions, but adoption will be a matter of scale. Because mobile robotics will always be expensive, they'll only be adopted where each can do the job of 10+ humans on a near 24 hour basis. Farming is a good example of where mobile robots will eventually be widely adapted. They'll pretty much pay for themselves on very large farms. But your plumbing contractor will never reasonably be able to afford them considering how much work each empl
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AI can't fix your toilet or lay mortar in a construction site
Yet. Continuous progress in robotics together with the combination of robots with AI can create machines good enough to replace a lot of manual jobs too. This may happen sooner than we think too: see how quickly AI has evolved from a subject for derision, with its drawings of six fingered people, to a real threat to knowledge workers. Fairly soon I expect truckers, taxi or Uber drivers and others to start feeling the pressure from autonomous cars.
In the end, the driving force is the desire of companies to r
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The goal here isnt to replace jobs, its to suppress wages. The jobs are still there, go look at any job board. The fact is, they want these articles out there to make people think their job is under pressure, not needed, etc. But one only need look at job boards to find it false.
The goal is both, suppress wages and eliminate jobs.
Why not both? (Score:2)
Plenty of people hiring diesel mechanics. None of us here can physically do that work. It's brutal, and you can't do it for very long before it physically catches up with you and you have to go work something else.
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And indeed, Bureau of Labor Statistics data and industry surveys show that real wages in many sectors, particularly IT, have flatlined or declined since the mid-2010s, as the cost of living rose.
More complicated than that.
"Software Developer" has increased 6.5% in real wages since 2010.
"Computer Programmer", though? -6.1%.
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But if you want to limit yourself off arbitrary data, you go ahead.
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That has been going on for a while. It used to be fine to get a job and work at it until retirement, but that time has been over for a while now and no connection to AI. Automation was always going to do that.
Personally, I am lucky. IT Security experts, and in particular lecturers, with a lot of experience are in high demand and that demand for good IT security people will only increase as regulation gets stricter and the threat-landscape gets more nasty. But a lot of people are screwed and that is not good
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Hehe, someone to pipe up the heat-exchangers on all those new server farms.
Re:Eventually that will trickle up to everybody (Score:5, Interesting)
Companies will find that because they replaced all the younger workers with AI, there aren't enough experienced ones. Unless AI dramatically improves, it's going to be a repeat of what happened with on-the-job training. Everyone needs a degree now because companies decided they didn't want to train them.
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Companies will find that because they replaced all the younger workers with AI, there aren't enough experienced ones. Unless AI dramatically improves, it's going to be a repeat of what happened with on-the-job training. Everyone needs a degree now because companies decided they didn't want to train them.
Everyone needs a degree now because we watered down high school and made it worthless, then we banned companies from using IQ tests to select workers, and so the college degree became a stand in for "He's probably smart enough to do this". But now we're watering down the Bachelor's Degree, too, because it's unfair if everyone doesn't have a college degree or some nonsense.
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Obviously. But CEOs are greedy idiots or uncaring assholes these days and do not expect a long tenure anyways. Hence they will take any short-term cost saving opportunities they can, and who cares if that kills the enterprise long-term.
Re: Eventually that will trickle up to everybody (Score:2)
Rose tinted glasses
https://www.reddit.com/r/USHis... [reddit.com]
Meh, they'll just import (Score:2)
Re: Eventually that will trickle up to everybody (Score:5, Interesting)
I haven't posted here in years but maybe y'all could use a bit of help...
History of the workweek
https://www.scry.llc/2024/12/2... [scry.llc]
Im shocked my id still works.
Kudos to slashdot.
Equilibrium
https://www.scry.llc/2025/01/2... [scry.llc]
Re:Eventually that will trickle up to everybody (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm 54 and stricken down by terminal cancer. I'm unemployable at this point.
I wish being "unemployable" were my biggest problem.
Terminal Cancer [Re:Eventually that will trickle] (Score:2)
I'm 54 and stricken down by terminal cancer. ...
I remember reading this article about terminal cancer survivors. The below one in particular. It almost seemed like he got a bad case of food poisoning and it revved up his immune system to knock out his cancer.
I always feel lousy after an immunization. Would getting vaccinated for small pox or yellow fever or some other fell disease to get the immune system to go on the hunt?
From ahref=https://www.forbes.com/2009/02/11/cancer-cure-experimental-lifestyle-health_0212cancer.htmlr [slashdot.org]
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Interesting story. Thank you for sharing it.
In my case, in April 2022, I was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer, metastatic to the liver and lymph nodes. After chemotherapy, chemo-radiation, and radiation, I had surgery to remove it all. Initial scan showed it all gone, just what you want to see. But at my first regular 3 month scan, it was back. I've now had 5-6 surgeries, more radiation, a shit more chemotherapy.
And what did I get for all that? It's back in the liver. It's back in the lymph nodes, it's
lower the medicare age! (Score:2)
lower the medicare age!
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Why?
Re: Eventually that will trickle up to everybody (Score:2)
You guys have been saying that over 40s are unemployable for decades now. What changed your mind to make you say that they're the only ones that are employable?
Re: Eventually that will trickle up to everybody (Score:4, Funny)
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In 2013, my wife wanted us to relocate across the continent. I was 43 at the time. Facing the prospect of quitting my job (that I liked) and moving across the continent to a city where I didn't know a soul, I warned her, being over 40, that if I quit my current job, I may never have a good job again.
We relocated. I was able to get a good job, at the same pay, simply by posting a resume on Monster.com.
All that worry, for nothing.
Re: Eventually that will trickle up to everybody (Score:2)
I kept hearing that and treating it with skepticism. After being a network engineer and a security analyst for six years, I got my first job (security engineer) where the primary role is software development, in a state I never lived in, at age 41, at a company known for being very highly selective.
A lot of questions I got were "didn't you have to know somebody there first?" Didn't know anybody. "But that must have been years ago, nobody does that anymore!" Well, 2022, but the first some somebody said that
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...and the new job I got was in a field I had no previous exposure to, banking.
My previous experience was mostly related to land management, oil & gas, minerals, mining, property ownership things, etc.
Last job was in healthcare.
95% of AI projects fail (Score:2)
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You focus on "AI Is Crushing Young Workers' Employment Prospects"
Now read it again, the title is: "AI Is Crushing Young Workers' Employment Prospects, Stanford Study Finds"
This is terrible news for Stanford, if the article is even real (not AI hallucinated
Re: Eventually that will trickle up to everybody (Score:2)
Uber drivers make about $15-40/hr, after expenses. Don't know where you get the idea they make less than minimum wage. Perhaps amateurs do. People who actually get their shit together and learn to do the job earn somewhere between a typical low wage worker and middle class.
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So, are you saying that software developers are all going to go work for OpenAI? *facepalm*
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"Eh, the buggy whip makers went to work for Ford."
Who are today's buggy whip makers? And who are they going to go work for?
"There will be more productive activity to be done so long as there are people willing to work."
Victim blaming. What will this productive activity be?
"There's certainly going to be some pain as we transition more productive workload over to AI (or more accurately, perform existing workload much more efficiently using AI), but it will shake out. People will find productive work."
They c
Re:Eventually that will trickle up to everybody (Score:4, Informative)
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I don't need "lawn care". I need grass cut. And for an hour of work I'll pay $25.
I assume you have no takers. You're not paying enough.
EVERYTHING has to come out as an independent contractor. There's the travel time to and from your job, if that's a half hour each way, they're down to $12.50 an hour. Then there's gas, tools, maintainance etc. They're now down to under federal minimum wage.
And of course there's their capacity factor. As a contractor, unlike the 9-5 job you generally have gaps as people drop
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I pay my neighbor $50 to cut my grass with his ride-on mower. Since yours takes an hour, I'm going to guess your mower is not a ride-on mower?
If I had a riding lawn mower, I'd do it myself.
For $25 (at least $8 of which they have to set aside for taxes)
Yeah, right. They're gonna report that $25 cash on their tax return. What planet are you from?
you expect an actual human to get to you....
No, I expect them to bitch about how no jobs are available.
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Grass cut is to lawncare as haircut is to healthcare.
Re:Eventually that will trickle up to everybody (Score:4, Interesting)
Interesting cost analysis there. Let's look at middle range model (and assume that someone who wants to pay someone to mow the grass isn't going to be happy with the cheapest robotic mower (since no one is, those things are rubbish) and say $3000. The OP says cutting takes an hour. Grass needs cutting every week in the summer, and lets say every 3rd week in the winter, so you're looking on average every second year. If you assume that it costs $20 to pay someone to mow something for an hour you can pay someone for 6 full years before you've paid off a robot mower.
How long does the mower last?
I actually have owned two robotic mowers, one from Kress' RTKn line and the newest equivalent from Segway. Decided the tech had matured enough to give it a shot, since they're now satellite guided and actually plan routes rather than using a wire and bouncing around like an old Roomba. I've got about 3/4 of an acre of actual lawn to mow, relatively easy but in a climate where grass grows something like 8 months out of the year. In peak growing season it's really 2 mows a week minimum unless you've planted very specific types of grass that don't naturally grow well in this climate and require a ton of irrigation.
I'll say confidently that these mowers are no longer gimmicks. Honestly I'd be surprised if just mowing a yard is much of a job in another decade.
The Kress as a machine was pretty good, but their gimmick is the owner can't program them themselves and needs a dealer... and the dealers just didn't want to support after a sale. But the new Segway Navimow is impressively good, and fully programmable. Cost $2200 for a model that can mow an acre. Extremely good mapping, easy setup, good interface. Uses multiple cameras for not just collision detection but also to physically reference objects around it and use them to correct for potential drift. Fast enough that it can mow the entire lawn in a long day (about 18 hours, counting charge time).
So in my case, if you figure an annual average mowing of 50 times a year (about 1.5 mows a week during the 8 month growing season), the mower actually pays itself back pretty fast. I was getting quotes around $100 for a service to come in, per mow. If you already owned and maintained the equipment maybe you could get a local kid to do it for half that or less, but certainly no adult making a living would do it... and even at $30 a mow for a high school student the payback is easily less than two years, realistically one full growing season you're about there. Even if other folks are in a northern climate with much slower growing grass you're talking only a few years to pay back.
The main hangup has been that the technology kind of sucked before now. That's pretty much resolved. The only real barriers to adoption now are sunk costs in traditional equipment, unfamiliarity, and difficult yard issues (mainly dense tree cover messing with satellite signals). It's not perfect, but I think we're at the point of "good enough" for widespread adoption.
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How much are you offering?
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Neil Stephenson's Diamond Age predicted this but with nanotech. All goods became commodities when the nanotech replicators became ubiquitous, destroying the need for labor to produce them
Thing is current AI today and in the next 30-40 years isn't going to solve resource scarcity like nanotech would. If anything it's costing us resources.
Thought terminating cliche (Score:5, Interesting)
The two are not remotely alike because people who stopped making buggy whips could go make cars.
In this case everything's getting automated. There are just fewer jobs.
This has happened before when automation outpaced job creation. In particular during the second industrial revolution leading up to world war I and II.
It is not a coincidence that we had widespread technological unemployment leading into two world wars.
If you have more people than you have work and you have a society where if you don't work you don't eat you now have millions of people who need to die.
They are not going to just die by slow starvation. You can do that to a lot of people but they need to be in the out group so generally you can only do that too extremely poor countries particularly the ones in places like Africa.
In developed countries when that starts happening a dictator comes around and organizes those people and starts a big war.
That's just what happens historically. It's something that has happened for millennia we just don't really think of it in those terms. We like to romanticize the old wars. We don't like to think about them just being over who gets to have enough food to live.
Also we actually have enough food for everyone now and we have since the mid to late seventies so it's no longer deciding who gets limited resources of food and water it's deciding who gets the limited resource of work.
The real problem is we are going to have a divide between people who have absolutely no work to do and people who we still need to work.
And there is going to be a big war involving those two groups. With a handful of extremely wealthy men at the top profiting from our misery and our inability to let anyone do anything besides work
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If you're watching what is happening, economically, in Germany, you should recognize two things:
0) The German economy is shrinking, due in part to previous administrations 'green' policies. Not that it matters greatly why the economy is shrinking, and there are other causes...
1) The last two times Germany fell into economic distress, war broke out in Europe. Leading us to...
2) We cannot discount the possibility that hot war in Europe could break out due to economic distress among EU states; consider the Rus
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Are you suggesting that third group of people doesn't exist?
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How so?
Re: Eventually that will trickle up to everybody (Score:2)
And where do you think the horses went?
Incorrect (Score:5, Insightful)
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The Slashdot crowd is seriously leftwing. Look at EVERY article about back to office.
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No, it's them being unable to type, spell, We don't want to onboard and train anyone.
and wanting a promotion on day 1 with no experience There's no career path here, not sorry.
while spouting off socialist bullshit in the office. Stop complaining about Israel curb stomping the poor people in Gaza.
Seriously no one knows how to spell anymore. Red squiggles please. Young people are right to be frustrated, disillusioned, and frustrated at the state of the world today. Work isn't as re
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Most of them aren't. This story is as old as time: The older generation usually doesn't understand the newer one, and when they don't, one of two things happen:
1) Old man who was clinically depressed his whole life believes we're living in the worst of times ever, talks about how the younger generation is doomed because things only get bad, and from the moment you're born you start dying
2) Old man who remembers dealing with harder times in the past who has a much easier life now says the younger generation
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The 20-somethings we're hiring are no more entitled than they were 10 years ago, are just as technically clueless, and if anything, seem a bit more well-adjusted and mature than my cohort ever was.
I heard a peer at my firm saying something similar recently, and I asked him for specifics. He hires Windows people, so I thought maybe there was some difference. No, he admitted, it was more of a vibe he had, partially about people in his kid's school
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Yea, I always wonder - like do people just completely forget what their life was like when they were 22 (or pick an age)? How they thought? Heck, just think back to before you were a manager or high level individual contributor or whatever.
Yea, you never rolled your eyes at your superiors (and you're surely not doing it now re the C-Suite right?)... You never talked about how to "game the system" (I imagined all the change jobs every 3 years memes for the aughts through 2020ish).
These people really do need
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and wanting a promotion on day 1
Maybe you aren't paying enough.
while spouting off socialist bullshit in the office
Will the horrors never end. You should be free to spout grumpy old git bullshit in the office with out those bloody youngsters getting in your way.
IT hiring manager here
I think you may be bad at your job. Something's pretty off with your interview process, and possibly the job and/or description that's putting off everyone who has other options.
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Well you're awfully triggered by that. Either way, that's not something he needs to get into their heads over, as some of them, like you, misuse words. If they're missing a lot of other soft skills, that's a safe conclusion to reach, and going any further is simply a waste of time.
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This "triggered" word that your TDS suffering crowd obsess about, what is it?
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I don't know about them but zoomers are insufferable now with their "late stage capitalism" cliche. Everything they don't like is capitalism, and it's a symptom of "late stage" capitalism. They are as fucking annoying as boomers with their "this country is going straight to hell" bullshit. Both are obnoxious and unprofessional, voicing political opinions no one ever asked for.
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So you're telling me you can't control the interviews you're supposedly doing with candidates?
Not much of a help, are you?
Going to pay the price (Score:5, Interesting)
There are absolutely areas of employment that we are going to have big shortages in several years down the road because of this.
My wife and I both work in Radiology, and most all hospitals are having some trouble finding radiologists to read images. The cause? About 8-10 years ago it was all over the news that AI was reading medical images and doing a better job than radiologists. That caused a non-trivial percentage of medical students to choose some other specialization, believing that AI would replace enough radiologists that they wouldn't find work.
Well, that didn't come to pass. Sure, AI is being used in some small way, mainly to flag things and bring specific areas of an image to a doctor's attention, but at this point it hasn't actually improved their workflow or the speed in which they can read images. So now we're paying the price with a shortage in radiologists.
Now apply that scenario to almost every professional career you can think of, and imagine the shortages we're going to have 8-10 years down the line when AI didn't live up to the hype in myriad careers and fields. My prediction is trade careers (construction, plumbing, electrical, etc) are going to reach an all-time high (which is actually needed, so that's a good thing) as people pick career paths that can't be touched by AI.
Re:Going to pay the price (Score:5, Insightful)
The people that cause these problems don't care that they exist, they're someone else's problem. However, these people control government, that's the point. Yes, these problems are going to grow, the rich profit from it now and will profit from it later. It's just another two Santas.
The country is doomed if its people cannot take power back from the wealthy. No one is asking for this AI bullshit, except for the rich.
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No one is asking for this AI bullshit, except for the rich.
This just isn't true - if it was, each chatbot wouldn't have millions of monthly users. You know what happens to stuff no one is asking for? No one uses it and it tends to disappear.
I think lots of people have been asking for AI (as it is now) to replace search for instance, because search has gotten so bad. We can debate how well suited each model is for that, but it's clear there's a search problem.
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>> trade careers (construction, plumbing, electrical, etc) are going to reach an all-time high
Unfortunately those trades pay only about $35/hr in the USA. And in fact we are currently in a housing slump, the builders are laying trades people off in droves.
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Unfortunately those trades pay only about $35/hr in the USA. And in fact we are currently in a housing slump, the builders are laying trades people off in droves.
This is false. If you are a Journeyman level tradesman (competent to perform tasks to code without detailed explanations or constant supervision), there is plenty of work available starting at $50/hr as an employee under someone else's contractors license. More if you are a licensed & bonded contactor. My father-in-law and his brother own a construction company and are hiring. Carpentry, concrete, roofing, drywall, painting, plumbing, electrical, grading, etc. Commercial, industrial, residential.
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https://www.salary.com/researc... [salary.com]
"As of August 01, 2025, the average annual salary for an Electricians in the United States is around $61,630, with an hourly rate of $30."
https://www.salary.com/researc... [salary.com]
"As of August 01, 2025, the average annual pay of Plumber in the United States is $64,810"
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>> That's a nice god damned wage!
$35/hr is not what I call good pay. You can get that much driving a truck.
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Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it isn't a nice wage.
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>> You can buy a house in my area for $1000/month.
You live out in the boonies somewhere? Maybe you should be looking at prices where most of the populace lives, because that's what counts.
I aske Perpexity. For a $70,000 annual wage in Texas the take-home pay is ~$57,400/year (~$4,784/month). The median home price is about $340k, with the total payment on a 30-year mortgage of about $2,550/month. That leaves you about $2,200. Subtract car payment and health insurance and you are just scraping by at be
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I live in the city of Pittsburgh, about 5 minutes from PNC Park and Acrisure Stadium (Steelers play there).
Some might consider it the boonies, I dunno.
Your housing target is too high. You need to aim for way less than the median. I have no idea what the median price in Pittsburgh is though. Let's see....first result from google for "Pittsburgh median home price" is $275K for listings and $235 for sales.
As for car payment, get used and old and have no payment. My Jeep is 18 years old. It was paid off a loooo
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>> Your housing target is too high.
Its just the median price of a house in Texas.
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Which does not mean a whole lot. That includes the best neighborhood in Dallas and the shittiest on in Shit Hole, TX, wherever that may be.
I bet there are some perfectly nice houses in Texas for under $150K.
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My area is not the only area. There are many areas from which to choose.
As for other areas...if those areas find themselves short of tradespeople, they will pay more until they get some.
The problems occur when people insist on living in areas that they cannot afford.
A problem that might kill itself (Score:2)
Short term, AI will be overvalued by managers and will bring a lot of in house work back as things mess up. See the initial push for outsourcing... we got paid a lot to clean up other peoples code until the standards of business got worked out.
Long term there will be a floor / ceiling issue. The floor for writing basic code will be lowered, and the ceiling for reviewing the code will be higher. Vibe coding doesn't exactly give you experience in memory management that you might need to make sure there aren't
What happens when employees need to be replace. (Score:5, Interesting)
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What happens when mid-level employees are needed, and there are none in the pipeline because AI took their jobs? AI depends on good data for training. What happens when there is no good data and AI starts to hallucinate?
That is easy. Look at what happens when countries defund the education system. Everything is fine in the short term, then it gets worse, and finally you end up with a populace voting someone like Trump into power. Except in this case it will be Cyberdyne systems.
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Enlist (Score:2)
We are going to be sending our armed forces into every corner of the globe. And since AI weaponry has been deemed unethical, we will be needing grunts to pull triggers.
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Aren't we already basically doing that?
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AI could replace 100% of the WF (Score:2)
In related news today: (Score:2)
Happy-pills are a promising growth industry
https://science.slashdot.org/s... [slashdot.org]
lets see what happens after the GPT-5 bubble burst (Score:2)
Some groups are already re-hiring the people they laid off.
It's pretty terrible for newcomers today, but lets see about a year from now.
Remember when... (Score:3)
Instead the corporatists are determined to use AI to fire everyone whose job is more than minimum wage with no benefits (except the C suite of course), while grudgingly paying the humans they hate to do jobs AI can't do yet. Now listen to this latest collection of AI slop while you stand out in the sun directing traffic past the construction zone on a summer day.
The "AI" bubble (Score:2)
First, it's not AI. It's typeahead writ large.
And Cory Doctorow reports on a report that says 95% of all companies using AI are finding it a complete fail. Meanwhile, ROI on AI for the companies making it is on the order of a billion or three... while they're burning through hundreds of billions in venture capital.
If you can be replaced by AI... (Score:2)
If your job can be effectively replaced by a small shell script.... it is not much of a job.
Everyone deserves to live. That does not mean that anyone owes you a job. If you have nothing of value to contribute -you will earn nothing in return.
We do not all start off with equal opportunities, but there is an abundance of opportunity out there. There is a whole -internet- full of knowledge. It has never been easier to access the collected knowledge of the human race. Learn something. Develop an interest
Entry-level does not mean for the young (Score:2)
AI or pandemic overhiring? (Score:2)
It could be argued that diminished young people job prospects could be attributed to either AI or the continuing response to overhiring during the pandemic. I haven't read the entire paper, but this question is the key question to address. Tech was the field where perhaps the most overhiring occurred, so it's not a surprise that employment of young, inexperienced people would suffer the most in tech.
Re:This'll be temporary (Score:5, Insightful)
Or it'll be temporary when they actually find out AI is not at all what they expected and they need to rehire for the same jobs all over again.
Test first I would've thought was the way to go.
It reminds me of the dump-ass actions of big contract software deployments completely writing off the older system the moment the new one is supposedly live ... Only to find out the new system is not just buggy as all hell but also lacks many needed features. And it takes years and a massive overspend to rectify. All the while refusing to resurrect the old system.