AI and employment

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