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If everyone is replacing low level jobs with AI in order to pump next quarters numbers, they are gonna be fucked in 5-10 years when there is a skilled labour shortage - those very skills learned and developed while doing the lower level jobs.
This is a gargantuan gamble on AI being able to progressively replace more an more complicated jobs, and stay in line with this curve as the skill ages out of the population.
Oh, and nobody will be able to pay for the services provided by these companies because nobody will have money because they can't get jobs because all the low skill jobs are done by AI, and nobody can develop skills because there is no entry to industries/careers via low skilled jobs.
Replacing jobs with AI is so fucking stupid.
When I saw a similar article posted previously there was mention that "colleges and boot camps need to level up students faster" the implication there being they want students to graduate into senior positions (I'm not in the field so I have no idea how possible that even is)
What's infuriating about this position is that it becomes the new "entry level" with entry level pay... Higher skilled, better trained, supposed to be more valuable but will be getting paid less because AI kneecapped them... The future looks more disgusting every day
I feel like the only way this is possible is some terrible co-op between businesses and colleges that, instead of colleges educating on basics and fundamentals, theyve basically turned university into the on-the-job training you would get as an entry level employee. But now, youre paying for it instead of being paid for it.
Yeh. Unpaid internship instead of an apprenticeship.
But an apprenticeship doesn't require a university degree to qualify for