Businesses destroying the skills development pipeline by eliminating entry level jobs.
Retail is so polluted with AI scams and deceptive ads that the public is being driven off of any but the most well vetted sites. This is on top of the massive scams problem worldwide.
AI’s business model is starting to look like a snake eating its own tail: scrape human work, replace the humans who make it, flood the web with synthetic sludge, then wonder why there’s less quality data to train on. Silicon Valley calls it disruption. Everyone else might call it burning the furniture to heat the house.
Burning the furniture to heat the house is such a good analogy, wow.
An old one is “eating your seed corn”. In other words eating the seeds you need to plant the next crop to survive now guaranteeing you will starve next season.
Wow, also really good 😅
Pretty sure some of that furniture was structural
Best thing you could probably do at this point is make slop and pass it off as real work.
I’m very concerned about this.
But I’m even more concerned that the jobs that AI kills are jobs that no one gets trained to do, and that no one will know how to do them when the computers stop working.
Ai isn’t even close to replacing a job yet. Its not even cheaper than a human. Anyone going into a field that people are fleeing due to Ai will be in huge demand when we move on to the next scam cycle.
Tech layoffs in the last few years arent jobs being replaced with Ai, they are from the massive amounts of overhiring that occured in 2020-2021
They say “Well people will just work in the upper levels, strategy, etc.” Uhhh, how do they think people develop the skills and instincts for those positions? Sure, you can train someone to go through the motions but they won’t know if they are good or bad, no experience with past mistakes and crisis, no sense of what will work or not, etc. It is like saying everyone will become the site manager but never put a house frame together or swung a hammer in their life.
LLM is destroying the ability to think in kids. Even if you want to switch back and retrain people Gen Slop isn’t ready for that.
Yeah but the job market will be hot for any Gen Alpha that even has half a working brain.
The people doing the hiring will be too addle minded to recognize a working brain.
This is pervasive throughout any segments where AI is leveraged. I’ve heard it called a Diamond-shaped market. What used to be a pyramid of entry-level to mid tier to experienced staff no longer has entry level. So it’s just mid tier and experienced staff. There is no one in the pipeline to move up. What happens then? The genie is out of the bottle. The big AI shops could close up now and it would only slow the decline as local models are getting more performant. I’m impressed at what Qwen can do on a MacBook with 32 gig of ram. The question I have is, what’s the solution? I got nothing other than hoping the process of decline drags out longer than I think it will.
