AI Is Killing the Training Ground for Entry-Level Workers

I posted a comment on r/Futurology in June about AI rewriting entry-level work to demand senior-level judgment. It hit 143,000 views. Ninety one percent of the responses agreed. That reaction told me something the data later confirmed. People already feel this. They just did not have the numbers yet.

Here are the numbers. Entry-level job postings have dropped 29 percent since January 2024. That is not a recession signal. That is the aftermath of a labor market rewrite that happened faster than anyone planned for.

Automating foundational work does not eliminate the junior position. It destroys it. Entry-level roles were never just routine tasks handed to young workers. They were judgment, taught through repetition. The drafting, the scheduling, the basic organizing, the pattern recognition that came from doing the same kind of work for six months or a year. That was the training ground. A company invested time teaching a...

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