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There are dozens of articles about this topic, so for the purposes of discussion I pulled out this one:
AI is erasing the entry-level jobs new grads once relied on
The immediate impact gets the most attention -- fewer jobs for new grads -- but I've not seen as much attention to the long-term impact: Entry-level jobs are how young tech employees learn and eventually become senior tech employees. At an individual level, companies don't see that as their problem. Perhaps they also assume that by the time all their senior tech people retire, AI will be advanced enough to step into the breach.
Well, good luck with that. There are rumblings that AI is reaching its limit, only adding incremental improvements (if not actually backsliding) with every new iteration. If that is indeed the case (and I believe it is), then we've knocked the legs out of the tech career ladder just as we start hemorrhaging senior developers.
AI is erasing the entry-level jobs new grads once relied on
The immediate impact gets the most attention -- fewer jobs for new grads -- but I've not seen as much attention to the long-term impact: Entry-level jobs are how young tech employees learn and eventually become senior tech employees. At an individual level, companies don't see that as their problem. Perhaps they also assume that by the time all their senior tech people retire, AI will be advanced enough to step into the breach.
Well, good luck with that. There are rumblings that AI is reaching its limit, only adding incremental improvements (if not actually backsliding) with every new iteration. If that is indeed the case (and I believe it is), then we've knocked the legs out of the tech career ladder just as we start hemorrhaging senior developers.