AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study

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440 points pseudolus | 2 comments | 28 Aug 25 14:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.402s | source

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muldvarp ◴[28 Aug 25 14:37 UTC] No.45052736[source]▶

Brutal that software engineering went from one of the least automatable jobs to a job that is universally agreed to be "most exposed to automation".

Was good while it lasted though.

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1. beeflet ◴[29 Aug 25 00:26 UTC] No.45058585[source]▶

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Most "Software Engineering" is just applying the same code in slightly different contexts. If we were all smarter it would have been automated earlier through the use of some higher-level language.

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2. kaibee ◴[29 Aug 25 03:17 UTC] No.45059760[source]▶

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> If we were all smarter

Its not really an intelligence thing. You could have the most intelligent agent, but if the structural incentives for that agent are for example, "build and promote your own library for X for optimal career growth.", you would still have massive fragmentation. And under the current rent-seeking capitalist framework, this is a structural issue at every level. Firefox and Chrome? Multiple competing OSes? How many JS libraries? Now sure, maybe if everyone was perfectly intelligent _and_ perfectly trusting, then you could escape this.

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