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Oh no, DEI!

Is there a case that women are more willing to take what is seen as a non-graduate job, so are employed but not necessarily in a good job?

Nice digging. In a volatile industry like tech, which is male-dominated, we expect ups and downs so it's far too early to predict an AI-pocalypse Self-serving pronouncments like the one from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei over estimate the speed if not size of their impacts Amara's law

Isn't that possibly a stocks vs flows issue? Very recent tech grads are finding jobs, but those who graduated a few years back (but still aged under 27) have faced a harder market?

LLMs do change everything in tech over the next 10-20 years, but the idea of it moving industry-wide hiring trends *right now* always struck me as unlikely, regardless of anecdotes to the otherwise

This suggests tech’s hiring contraction of 2023-24 may not have been primarily a story of AI job displacement, but rather the downslope of the sector’s meteoric post-pandemic hiring boom, with recruitment now rebounding from that trough.

The thread as a shareable webpage: https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:ho34pe25d3ywc6g6vxugre2i/post/3luaovbtrws25.

The computer revolution in engineering happened 30 years ago with the rise of CNC machines controlled directly by CAD. AI may make certain aspects easier but it won't be as revolutionary as it has been for certain coding and writing tasks.