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Productivity gains from AI are appearing in many of the same fields where entry-level employment is starting to decline (hai.stanford.edu)
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Productivity gains from AI are appearing in many of the same fields where entry-level employment is starting to decline. Employment among software developers aged 22–25 has plummeted nearly 20% since 2024, even as their older colleagues' headcount grows. The pattern repeats in other jobs with higher levels of AI exposure, like customer service. Meanwhile, firm surveys indicate executives expect this trend to accelerate, with planned headcount reductions outpacing recent cuts. Translation: The disruption is targeted and just beginning.

I posted this in one of the Sam Altman threads but I think it probably deserves its own post. There's some other interesting things in the report.

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[+] 19 points 6 months ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    If i produced 1000 widgets with zero defect and my replacrment produces 1000000, but they all have severe defects, is that counted as an increase in productivity?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 6 months ago

    Then no. However if the replacement produces 1000000 widgets with 1000 rejects, then the boss might say - alright, we need more QA to catch those rejects and we're still X ahead, then yes. Productivity isn't measured by the output of one person of particular widget but the output of the unit as a whole, or more importantly the profit of the firm altogether divided by its workers. So if the boss can get more output while controlling the quality to the point of the customer not noticing too much from our replacement, we both get a pink slip.

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    • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    yup, why hire and train junior level devs when you can have an ai do it for you

    its going to be really bad in a couple years when all the senior guys end up retiring and theres no new generation to replace them

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    [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    Define "productivity gains"

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    [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Study finds water is wet.

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    [–] 4 points 6 months ago*

    Stanford: home of eugenics; birthplace of Peter Thiel's anti democracy; anti human, transhumanism ideology.

    Be cautious.

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    [–] [S] 21 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    LMFAO

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    • [–] 12 points 6 months ago

    We're also desperate to lock up or deny visas to anyone that isn't "American enough" so the best and brightest youths from around the world are probably going to study in China instead.

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    [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Good. I hate Sam Altman.

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    [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Good, we shouldn't even be thinking about LLMs. Let alone who has a "lead" on the slop machines.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    Don't interact with it.
    Don't look at it.
    Don't even think about it.

    You act like a scooby-doo villain. You try to scare people away so they don't investigate themselves.

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    [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Take cover, tariffs inbound. China can never better than Merca.

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    [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    USA will always lose any contest not based on murdering people.

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    [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    MAGA: Make America neGligible Again

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    [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    I think this is more indicitive of AI as a whole hitting the wall with increasingly diminished returns on research.

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