One tech executive recently told me his company had stopped hiring anything below an L5 software engineer – a midlevel title typically given to programmers with three to seven years of experience – because lower-level tasks could now be done by AI coding tools. — Pixabay
SAN FRANCISCO: This month, millions of young people will graduate from college and look for work in industries that have little use for their skills, view them as expensive and expendable, and are rapidly phasing out their jobs in favour of artificial intelligence.
That is the troubling conclusion of my conversations over the past several months with economists, corporate executives and young job seekers, many of whom pointed to an emerging crisis for entry-level workers that appears to be fueled, at least in part, by rapid advances in AI capabilities.
