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AI is already taking jobs away from entry-level workers

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Schrodinger's AI.

On the one hand, it's bad, bad, hitting walls, getting badder, it's the baddest we've seen, failure, bubble, etc.

On the other hand it's taking jobs left and right, whatarewegonnado?!

The signal to noise ratio in reporting about AI is extremely low.

To be fair, both of those statements ("AI progress has plateaued" and "AI is taking jobs") can be true at once! There's almost certainly some disconnect between improving frontier models and UX vs. increasing adoption, particularly outside what you'd normally think of as pure tech companies.

Put another way: an LLM replacement for entry-level workers doesn't have to be good, just good enough.

https://archive.is/52NXY

I'm in silicon valley with 27+ years of experience. I haven't been able to find a job in 2 years now. I used to get 4-5 recruiters (legit ones) reaching out to me a week. I'd have 2-3 interviews a week in 2023. Now I haven't had a legit recruiter contact me in 2 years. I think I had one interview in 2024.

thought about adapting req. of new jobs?

You mean submitting a custom resume for each job? Hell no.

why not? It would def help with a job search? It's not minimal effort, but AI can do a pretty good job with it as long as you feed your resume and the job description. It does make applying for each job more time consuming, but not a whole lot more.

I never really applied to jobs before, its always been recruiters reaching out to me on LI. Anyway I used an ai tool to rewrite my resume for each job listing and I still didn't get any calls, so I don't really think that's the issue.

try updating your tech stack, be relevant for job market

I am always updating my tech stack. that is not the issue.

job market is really weird & uncertain, at the moment. unable to think what could be the problem for these. heard OpenAI is hiring human social media strategist

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