what if cool new tech is just slowing down and AI is masking it.

Not that like I think one should put too much stock in head lines. But "Wiping Out"

seems to translate to a 6.1% unemployment rate and 16.5% underemployment rate?

https://www.finalroundai.com/blog/computer-science-graduates...

Big tech are doing it on purpose with h1b’s and exportation of labor to capture the market in India and non-china asia. they are desperate and afraid.

The U.S has a national security interest in completely stopping all of it. They dont, because every administration is paid not to.

Regulate tech, ban labor export, ban labor import, protect your countries from the sellout.

The 'recent graduates' quoted in this article all seem to be from (for lack of a better description) 'developing countries' hoping to get a (again, generalizing) 'high-paying FAANG job'.

My initial reaction would be that these people, unfortunately, got scammed, and that the scammers-promising-abundant-high-paying-jobs have now found a convenient scapegoat?

AI has done nothing so far to reduce the backlog of junior developer positions from where I can see, but, yeah, that's all in "Europoor" and "EU residency required" territory, so what do I know...

What happens when there are no more entry-level humans to be promoted to mid-level, and so on?

No it's not. There is no shortage of tech problems to solve and there are no tech jobs that AI can do alone.

AI is sucking up investment and AI hype is making executives stupid. Hundreds of billions of dollars that used to go towards hiring is now going towards data centers. But AI is not doing tech jobs.

These headlines do nothing but increase the hype by pointing towards the wrong cause entirely.

Edit: You cannot square these headlines https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46289160

This article asserts 7 times that jobs are being replaced by AI and the only data to substantiate it is a link to an EY report that is paywalled, doesn't hold up to the text of the link, and doesn't hold up to what contemporary journalists wrote about the report.

Bad article. Hope a human didn't write it.

Entry level jobs have been getting wiped out for at least 5 years, including tech jobs, which includes 2 years that not even ChatGPT 3.5 was available. That was the first version that would reasonably respond to any useful question. And if you're being honest, other entry level jobs are far worse of than tech jobs. Entry-level bakers ... outright don't really exist anymore.

Even agentic computing (ie. an AI doing anything on it's own accord for tech-savy users, never mind average users) is new from this year. I would argue it's still pretty far from widespread. Neither my wife nor my kids, despite my explaining repeatedly, even know what that is, never mind caring.

I'm repeating the mantra from before, and I get that it's not useful. But no, it's not AI wiping out entry-level jobs. It's governments failing to prop up the economy.

On the plus side, this means it can be fixed. However, I very much doubt the current morons in charge are going to ...

Everyone loves blaming AI for entry-level woes, but check the numbers: CS grads hit 6.1% unemployment while nursing sits at 1.4%. That's not "wiping out" jobs, that's oversupply meeting picky hiring after years of "learn to code" hype.

AI is eating the boring tasks juniors used to grind: data cleaning, basic fixes, report drafts. Companies save cash, skip the ramp-up, and wonder why their mid-level pipeline is drying up. Sarcastic bonus: great for margins, sucks for growing actual talent.

Long term though, this forces everyone to level up faster. Juniors who grok AI oversight instead of rote coding will thrive when the real systems engineering kicks in. Short term pain, massive upside if you adapt.

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H1B and foreign worker visas are, AI is political cover and it's a lie.

I’m not sure if this is true.

At the company where I work (one of the FAANGs), there is suddenly a large number of junior IC roles opening up. This despite the trend of the last few years to only hire L5 and above.

My read of the situation:

- junior level jobs were sacrificed as cost cutting measures, to allow larger investment in AI

- some analysts read this as “the junior levels are being automated! Evidence: there is some AI stuff, and there are no junior roles!”

- but it was never true, and now the tide is turning.

I’m not sure I ever heard anybody in my company claim that the dearth of junior openings was due to to “we are going to automate the juniors”. I think all of that narrative was external analysts trying to read the tea leaves too hard. And, wannabes like Marc Benioff pretending to be tech leaders, but that’s a helpful reminder that Benioff is simply “not serious people”.

It doesn't help that a lot of the graduates I've talked to or interviewed seemed to treat a compsci degree as nothing more than a piece of paper they needed to get to be handed a high paying tech job. If you're motivated enough to learn enough job skills to be useful on your own then I guess you can treat your degree that way. But if you got through 4 years through cheating and minmaxing the easiest route possible and wound up with no retained skills to show for it? Congrats, you played yourself and fell for the "college is useless" meme. Coulda just skipped the student loans and bombed interviews without the 4 year degree.

My senior SWE job at FAANG has essentially turned into prompting Opus 4.5.

There is almost no reason to delegate the work, especially low level grunt work.

People disputing this are either in denial, or lacking the skill set to leverage AI.

One or two more Opus releases from anthropic and this field is cooked

AI? Ah, India.

"Over $50 billion in under 24 hours: Why Big Tech is doubling down on investing in India" https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/11/big-tech-microsoft-amazon-go...