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How employment changes when firms adopt generative AI

https://ramp.com/data/ai-jobs-impact
32•nreece•2h ago

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Eufrat•1h ago
What is the value of saying this when ChatGPT was released in 2022? There’s no way there’s enough data to make any meaningful extrapolation about anything.
pjmlp•1h ago
The human teams that were there doing CMS translations, or doing image assets, are no more...
shevy-java•1h ago
So, more skynet leads to more real jobs?

I am confused. Wasn't the initial claim that AI kills all jobs?

I feel the claim right now is not really correct. One needs to do a thorough analysis of the whole job market across different countries, say, over 5 years. Or at the least 3 years but very complete and unbiased either way.

protocolture•42m ago
The claim is and always has been that automation increases net jobs. There's never been an automation revolution that worked otherwise.

The counter claim that LLMs were special for some reason has never been supported. And a lot of its proponents have other axes to grind, like UBI, Socialism, Communism etc. It would suit their worldview for this time to be different, and so thats the message they push.

somenameforme•4m ago
I'm not entirely sure that's the claim or conclusion. Like they said the companies increasing headcount are also being pumped full of $$$. That's a non-permanent state of affairs because it's heavily fueled by speculation about possible future scenarios which may or may not come to pass.

I think the bigger conclusion is that LLMs are, for now, having a minimal effect on the labor market. And I think this makes sense. In spite of individual claims of 10x productivity boost or whatever, their effect on the bottom line of companies seems to remain quite unclear, at best. On the contrary the token-maxing catastrophe seems to have resulted in companies becoming far more price conscious towards LLM usage.

guptadagger•1h ago
is that more or less than regular headcount growth?
delusional•1h ago
It's not entirely clear to me, but I believe this is 10% over the control. The 10% is therefore relative to "regular headcount growth".
whatever1•1h ago
Because people are wasting time and tokens doing irrelevant to the bottom line things.

Cool you spent 2 days and $200 building a react UI for your spreadsheet.

keyle•48m ago
That's interesting and goes directly against what everyone complains about in the employment sector.

I'm sure there is a big caveat in there somewhere.

rebuilder•42m ago
We can’t really say what this means. Maybe heavy AI use caused companies to perform better and grow. Or maybe the type of company that went big into AI was the type of company that was getting investments and growing because of it?
jdw64•38m ago
>AI adoption and the associated gains are unevenly distributed.
camillomiller•25m ago
These studies miss a huge point, which is: working with automation outside of programming is tedious, frustrating, and soul crushing. I see it already with some non technical clients. I have notice a terrible trend of people just offloading everything to agents or prompting even the simplest interaction with other humans. Let me tell you, it’s fucking dire.
consp•7m ago
Inside can be as well. Please manually review these 5000 lines of slop I generated while watching YouTube and verify the unreadable readme due to all the bloat and icons is correct with the code.

If that is not soul crushing I would not know what is.

thesumofall•22m ago
Skeptical of the study approach, but it is an entirely possible scenario if we don’t hit AGI. Many of the non-tech companies are only now starting to invest into AI. For many of them, AI might unlock new business approaches. Eg a company switches to real time pricing. Great, but suddenly you need people swapping price tags. Or you launch a project to replace paper price tags with electronic tags. Those need to be regularly maintained and charged, etc. Oops, our legacy ERP system can’t deal with that. Let’s upgrade that
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How employment changes when firms adopt generative AI

https://ramp.com/data/ai-jobs-impact
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