AI and employment

They would put 120,000 men out of work

we have our own set of Golems now. Our AI Golems.

CEOs who were loudly predicting AI-driven mass layoffs a year ago are now dialing back the rhetoric

many executives still expect AI-driven workforce reductions

many have been reassigned from traditional software development to repetitive AI evaluation tasks

AI is already powerful enough to replace millions of jobs

What will the displaced workers do?

A lot of them have been laid off and there ain’t no jobs for them to go to.

AI is killing entry-level software engineers already

people are using AI agents to find them jobs

junior coders are fucked

plans to automate his coding jobs to AI

meta to cut roughly 5% of staff

BuzzFeed is basically firing a ton of writers, and they're just going to use this stuff to generate crap

what you can do is retrain yourself to become a higher-level editor of these sorts of things.

I used to be able to bill for two hours

I'm looking at diversifying my revenue streams

What we're going to see is we're going to see people turn into prompt writers.

I think fact checking is going to be huge

for a lot of writers, they're probably feeling the way that portrait artists felt when photography became a thing.

you may not be contracting out any more of your copywriting.

it still saves time and money.

tech companies should stop pretending AI won't destroy jobs

It's going to take jobs away.

their salaries are in the range of $300,000 to $500,000 a year