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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: 0s | source
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bilsbie ◴[28 Aug 25 21:47 UTC] No.45057433[source]▶
AI is the popular cover excuse for layoffs.

I can’t think of a single job that modern AI could easily replace.

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sumedh ◴[28 Aug 25 23:31 UTC] No.45058195[source]▶
I used to hire someone who worked part time from home to bookmark some of the key pages in thousands of pdfs just so that I can directly jump to those pages instead of spending time myself on finding those pages.

AI can now do it very cheap so no need to give that job to a human anymore.

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1. nicman23 ◴[29 Aug 25 11:10 UTC] No.45062581[source]▶
gnu parallel + pdfgrepper saved my ass too many times
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2. sumedh ◴[29 Aug 25 11:27 UTC] No.45062670[source]▶
My use case cannot be solved by just grepping for the keywords because it does return false positives. You do need some intelligence (human or AI) to figure out if its the right page or not to add the bookmark.