Comment on SignalFire: startups and Big Tech firms cut hiring of recent graduates by 11% and 25% respectively in 2024 vs. 2023, as AI can handle routine, low-risk tasks

kescusay@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

There’s inevitably going to be some rebounding from this. It’s probably true that the large language models these companies are betting their businesses on can do some of the things entry-level grads do, but we’ve already seen several of them fail because their MBAs didn’t realize that just barfing out code is only one part of what developers do.

Source: Am developer, currently working with LLMs and related tech, none of which would be able to get anywhere without someone like me doing the work.

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