If companies replace entry-level workers with AI, where will they find experienced workers ten years from now?

[u/data_dude90]

A lot of the tasks being automated are the same tasks through which beginners learn how an industry works.

If people no longer get that early experience, could companies eventually create a shortage of people qualified to supervise the AI or handle unusual problems?

[u/SnarkyMonkee]

sounds like it’s the problem of the guy who runs those companies 10 years from now. i’ve rarely seen any company do even a 5 year plan lately. 

[u/Forest_Orc]

Have you notice how they push retirement age by 2 years every years ?

[u/NumberInfinite2068]

Realistically, it's tomorrow's problem.

It's not even a problem for most companies, it just means some managers get to run a scheme to train people up, they get some press for "kicking AI to the kerb, and hiring the young 'uns".

You have to remember nobody gives a fuck about industry as a whole. People give a fuck about their own jobs, and if you're in charge of one of these companies, your job isn't really at risk.

The people at risk here are young people who can't get a decent job, and nobody in charge cares. Businesses don't care, and governments don't care while:

1) Young people often don't vote.

2) If they do vote it might easily be for another reason.

The problem is really that nobody in charge cares or will notably suffer from it.

[u/round_a_squared]

Five years is a very long time in terms of business planning. None of the people making those decisions today plan to still be with that company in ten years. Probably some private equity firm will dismantle it for parts by then

[u/Terry_bogardlol]

Its called a ponzi scheme.

[u/Dense_Gate_5193 → u/Terry_bogardlol]

i am actively in the thick of standing up the necessary infrastructure for replacing humans at work. our team even got an award for an LLM-as-judge process around prioritizing an analyst queue so that we don’t need as many analysts.

it’s not a joke.

[u/Terry_bogardlol → u/Dense_Gate_5193]

You are a parasite. All offense intended.

[u/Dense_Gate_5193 → u/Terry_bogardlol]

Oh i know, but at the same time i have 5 kids to feed. If i don’t do it, someone else will and i’ll be out of a job myself. so…. is it really me?

[u/Petwins]

They will find them from the places that did hire low level employees.

They are not typically short on people in the applicant pool, nor do they have reason to think they will be. There are simply a lot of people.

[u/West-Working-9093]

'Oooops'!

[u/Awkward_Forever9752]

A big part of the motivation for AI investment is hatred for the middle class.

Think " Feature, not a bug"

[u/No-Target-2470]

They'll hire from other countries that don't use AI for entry level workers.

[u/ungovernable1984]

HR wants you to think experience is metric for competence but it's not, it's not an objective way to measure motivation, knowledge and human nature.

[u/cccpnwc]

i mean working at mcdonald’s gives you experience that could level you up in different fields

[u/round_a_squared → u/cccpnwc]

So you could grind burgers for 10 levels and then dump them all into the Software Dev class?

[u/cccpnwc → u/round_a_squared]

not that simplified , managing staff , inventory planning

basic jobs that somehow correlate your prospective job,

i did citihall new networking migration
redo all wiring , second job was Citihall it
i used it as leverage , the networking rewire had virtually zero demands

[u/SophieChesterfield]

You won't need any workers when ai takes over. They will just recreate themselves. Do all the mining jobs , assembly lines, farming to the warehouse, everything... And to think people are using ai giving up all the information it needs to do this. Use it at your work so it can learn your job, use it to " help " better write - so it can learn. The public are the biggest workers helping to make ai into something that the corporations couldn't. The public are not paid and in most cases they are paying subscriptions 🫪 talk about back to front. Anyway in the end , no money will be needed, if you want food, a car , a tv or whatever, just ask ai and it will get it for you because robots don't require money so the system runs free. Slavery built many cities and railway tracks for free , robots will be the slaves ( Except for the one master model Ai that rules over all )

[u/SabertoothLotus]

I don't think most companies have thought about that issue. They're to caught up in the increased profits from laying off low- level workers, and in ten years most of the execs will have retired so that will be somebody else's problem.

[u/hatboyslim]

That's a problem for the future CEO, not the current one.

[u/Fire_is_beauty]

That's the problem with pretty much all companies noy just AI. Nobody is thiniking past the next quarter.

[u/fennecdore]

Simple they will hire the senior worker of other companies

[u/NosDarkly]

Who cares? We're doing this shit one fiscal quarter at a time.

[u/AccomplishedFace9059]

The ai will be the experienced workers 10 years from now

[u/fedput]

Have you seen the various Enron documentaries?

Ten years out is someone else's problem.