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Are tech workers cooked? What the data says about AI and tech jobs
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US tech employment has been falling for almost four years while the rest of the economy kept adding jobs. The easy explanation is AI, but the timing doesn’t fit: demand for software developers peaked in February 2022, nine months before ChatGPT launched.
In this episode, I go through seven years of data from the US, Europe, India and China. Interest rates started the decline, AI is why the recovery never came, and the cost is landing on the youngest workers in every market we can measure…
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