📡 On my Radar
A few years ago, I couldn't hire my best recent grads at The Difference Engine. They'd finish their work with us and I'd watch them field competing offers from Fortune 500 companies, Presidential Management Fellowships, and prestigious nonprofits. My biggest problem was trying to convince them to stay just a little longer before they launched into careers that wanted them.
Today those same amazing students are struggling to find any entry-level position.
AI is a boon to student productivity and creativity, but companies are also using it as an excuse to systematically eliminate entry-level jobs. Using payroll data from 25 million workers, Stanford found a 16% decline in employment for workers aged 22-25 in AI-exposed fields since ChatGPT launched.1
Law firms are hiring less law students and paralegals. Software companies that used to compete for my graduates are now asking, "Why hire a junior deve…
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