As it is in software engineering that AI is having the greatest impact on changing workflow / increasing productivity, so it follows that it is tech companies which are most aggressively making changes to hiring demand. The decline in hiring volume is most clear in early entry, where doing the basic information processing / manipulation / carriage formed the basis of the training period for many a graduate role. We’re storing up trouble ahead if this trend moves into mainstream, but I am not sure anything other than government mandate would change the calculus as revenue optimisation is an ‘embedded imperative’ for all private sector businesses. Some brainfoders interviewed for this post, have a read
here. H/T to brainfooder
Jacob Sten Madsen for the share in the
online community.