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For many years, we knew that 1-on-1 tutoring was the most powerful educational intervention you could do. But we couldn't scale it.

Now, with AI, we finally can. Great things are ahead. https://t.co/HmZaNZJO5u

— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) June 6, 2025

“There are signs that entry-level positions are being displaced by artificial intelligence at higher rates,” the firm wrote in a recent report.

And

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

Altman’s blunt advice? Stop hesitating. “The companies that have the quickest iteration speed and make the cost of making mistakes low—those are the ones that win.” Ramaswamy agreed, adding that curiosity, not caution, is the more valuable trait right now. “A lot of what we assumed about how things work just doesn’t hold anymore,” he said.

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It’s a response that reveals how seriously they take the possibility of AI-driven scientific discovery. Both leaders expect next year will mark another inflection point where companies can assign their most critical problems to AI systems with massive computational resources.

https://www.maginative.com/article/sam-altman-and-sridhar-ramaswamy-say-the-quiet-part-out-loud-about-enterprise-ai

The prospectus for the two-year project, Speaking with American Men, was reviewed by the New York Times:

The prospectus for one new $20 million effort, obtained by The Times, aims to reverse the erosion of Democratic support among young men, especially online. It is code-named SAM — short for “Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan” — and promises investment to “study the syntax, language and content that gains attention and virality in these spaces.” It recommends buying advertisements in video games, among other things.

Cofounder of the project, Ilyse Hogue, talked about the importance of listening and using “language that young men are speaking.” From Politico:

Hogue said part of SAM’s mission “super charg[ing] social listening” and progressive influencers on Discord, Twitch and other platforms in their fundraising proposal. They’re urging Democratic candidates to use non-traditional digital advertising, especially on YouTube, in-game digital ads and sports and gaming podcasts.

“Democrats can’t win these folks over if they’re not speaking the language that young men are speaking,” Hogue said. “Most people I talked to, Democratic operatives, have never heard of Red Pill Fitness, which is just huge online.”

Language and advertising are important, for sure, but it’s hard to believe that these tactics alone would stem the tide.