“There are signs that entry-level positions are being displaced by artificial intelligence at higher rates,” the firm wrote in a recent report.
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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 A.I. coding tools. Another told me that his start-up now employed a single data scientist to do the kinds of tasks that required a team of 75 people at his previous company.
For companies, the idea of replacing people with cheap tools is certainly appealing, particularly in a time of economic uincertainty.
“This is something I’m hearing about left and right,” said Molly Kinder, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, a public policy think tank, who studies the impact of A.I. on workers. “Employers are saying, ‘These tools are so good that I no longer need marketing analysts, finance analysts and research assistants.’”
I wonder, though, if companies stop hiring entry-level employees, what happens to the talent pipeline? How do you get L5 (and higher) employees if you’re not hiring and developing younger employees?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/ai-jobs-college-graduates.html
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