The article assumes that jobs that can be automated are vulnerable. But in the postmortem of the AI driven layoffs so far, it's more that expectations about AI and productivity are driving the job cuts.

In other words shareholders and senior management are being shown the appearance of expectations about AI being met, whether or not it's working. Entry-level jobs are an obvious place to look things that can be cut to create an AI budget.

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HolyLampshade an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Mortgaging the future to pay for the present.

All of these executives are operating under the pretense that they won’t be held accountable when in 10-15yr their middle bench is a disaster, and they’re probably right.

	▲	NoMoreNicksLeft an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		>All of these executives are operating under the pretense that they won’t be held accountable when in 10-15yr their middle bench is a disaster, and they’re probably right. If everyone's middle bench is a disaster, there's no one that did it right to contrast their poor decision-making. They're hiding the evidence that will help them skip accountability.
	▲	morkalork an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		These executives are going to get some short-term performance based payout and move to another company while talking up the "Bold AI transformation" they lead waaaay before any fallout kicks in. Notice how there's less "We moved to Cloud / on-prem" slop on LinkedIn? It's because the same people have a new bandwagon to chase.

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jordanb 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yep if a hiring manager wants to open a req for a junior, before AI he'd get praise for being tight with budget and hiring someone cheap and trainable.

Now he gets asked: if a junior can do the work why aren't you using AI? So instead of opening the req he says to the team "we need to figure out how to make AI do more."

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bcjdjsndon 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Entry-level jobs are an obvious place to look things that can be cut to create an AI budget.

Kitchen potwasher, day labourer, apprentice welder etc none of these entry level jobs are affected by an LLM. But nobody on HN works in those industries.... connection maybe?

	▲	tfrancisl 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's not what the article or study are about. Theyre about entry level white collar jobs.
	▲	bluefirebrand 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I think "junior software engineer" is more like the entry level job that people on HN care about