AI-Proofing Careers: Reskilling & Upskilling for the New Job Market

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For Some Recent Graduates, the A.I. Job Apocalypse May Already Be Here - The unemployment rate for recent college graduates has jumped as companies try to replace entry-level workers with art

Posted by u/Gari_305•05/31/2025

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u/angrathias

How do you verify the sql is pulling the right thing? I’ve been doing sql stuff for some 20 years, occasionally I’ll get lazy and let ChatGPT do it and it’ll get screwed up. You need to ensur

u/EmeterPSN

Our company usually has a part timer do SQL queries for RnD to pull specific data in field.. Usually he is swamped with requests for different people as we try to catch different stuff .

u/angrathias

Ah ok, this sounds like a vastly simpler scenario than I’m used to dealing with

u/FuturologyBot

The following submission statement was provided by /u/Gari_305: --- From the article This month, millions of young people will graduate from college and look for work in industries that ha

u/dblmca

Is there a list of job that normally require 4 year degree but is currently being done by LLMs. The article was paywalled.

u/jirn_lahey

Like with everything else, 'they' just expect technology will solve that future problem before the chickens come to roost

u/angrathias

Ah ok, this sounds like a vastly simpler scenario than I’m used to dealing with

u/Zapadoru

So scones anyone?

u/FuturologyBot

The following submission statement was provided by /u/Gari_305: --- From the article This month, millions of young people will graduate from college and look for work in industries that ha

u/zachem62

This article is pure hype and just plain nonsense. It hijacks a perfectly explainable 5.8% recent grad unemployment rate (a figure that's consistent with what's historically average and amoun

u/StevenK71

That's half the answer. The real issue here is exactly the one faced by Henry Ford, when he decided to pay his workers 5 dollars per hour a century ago: people should have money to buy his pr

u/BrainTraumaParty

Everyone saying they’re going to go into trades for work is missing the ultimate end state of all this disruption. The elimination of white collar jobs eliminates a large portion of the cus

u/dblmca

Is there a list of job that normally require 4 year degree but is currently being done by LLMs. The article was paywalled.

u/xxAkirhaxx

Literally just typed this article out in a previous post on another thread. These AI articles skimming reddit are good.

u/quats555

Both limiting private profit and doing anything for the public good seem to be the absolute antithesis of this administration.

u/quats555

Both limiting private profit and doing anything for the public good seem to be the absolute antithesis of this administration.

u/Zapadoru

So scones anyone?

u/safari_king

I imagine one of the best ways to address this sort of existential threat is government intervention - perhaps through an AI-related tax that funds UBI or something like that - but of course

u/riverratriver

https://ai-2027.com/ Worth the read

u/Anastariana

They don't care. They intend to make as much money as possible, as quickly as possible, then bail before it all falls apart.

u/YsoL8

Right now the pressure point is not total job replacement, its doing enough of the job well enough that 1 person can do the work of 2 or 3 by automating the humdrum tasks. So instead of 5 ope

u/zachem62

This article is pure hype and just plain nonsense. It hijacks a perfectly explainable 5.8% recent grad unemployment rate (a figure that's consistent with what's historically average and amoun

u/literum

The timeline looks too optimistic. AI 2030, 2035 is more realistic.

u/safari_king

I imagine one of the best ways to address this sort of existential threat is government intervention - perhaps through an AI-related tax that funds UBI or something like that - but of course

u/Gari_305

From the article This month, millions of young people will graduate from college and look for work in industries that have little use for their skills, view them as expensive and expendable,

u/jirn_lahey

Like with everything else, 'they' just expect technology will solve that future problem before the chickens come to roost

u/EmeterPSN

As I said it's mostly dome by a fresh out of college students . But it essentially removes the job from the market , a job that fresh graduate use to earn 2-3 years of experience working wi

u/DerekVanGorder

The danger is not that AI will take our jobs. The danger is that we’ll refuse to implement UBI and keep creating jobs anyway. We are well on our way to becoming a society based on makework.

u/Anastariana

They don't care. They intend to make as much money as possible, as quickly as possible, then bail before it all falls apart.

u/MadRoboticist

If all the entry level positions get replaced with AI, where do they think they're going to get experienced people for the higher level positions that can't be replaced?

u/jtmonkey

Yeah my son just took a marketing certificate at a local college and I showed him how to do everything they taught him over 6 months in about 5 minutes with ai. He was like, but then what do

u/TWVer

That’s a collective problem and hence not an individual company’s responsibility they feel. It’s yet another game of musical chairs, where every company is simply looking out for their own c

u/EmeterPSN

As I said it's mostly dome by a fresh out of college students . But it essentially removes the job from the market , a job that fresh graduate use to earn 2-3 years of experience working wi

u/xxAkirhaxx

Literally just typed this article out in a previous post on another thread. These AI articles skimming reddit are good.

u/MadRoboticist

If all the entry level positions get replaced with AI, where do they think they're going to get experienced people for the higher level positions that can't be replaced?

u/EmeterPSN

Saying 2026 taking jobs is optimistic. I used to work in first line support of a tech company few years ago and we used to man the chat . Few people would take calls and 1-2 would be mann

u/Zapadoru

Luckily I picked culinary class over IT class. To be fair I suspect I cannot force myself to IT class, so I pick culinary instead.

u/EmeterPSN

The data we go through is mostly telemetries and error logs sent from units in field . I usually go over it manually to confirm the stuff I got from query is correct. Let's say I'm lookin

u/DerekVanGorder

The danger is not that AI will take our jobs. The danger is that we’ll refuse to implement UBI and keep creating jobs anyway. We are well on our way to becoming a society based on makework.

u/EmeterPSN

Our company usually has a part timer do SQL queries for RnD to pull specific data in field.. Usually he is swamped with requests for different people as we try to catch different stuff .

u/TWVer

That’s a collective problem and hence not an individual company’s responsibility they feel. It’s yet another game of musical chairs, where every company is simply looking out for their own c

u/Zapadoru

Luckily I picked culinary class over IT class. To be fair I suspect I cannot force myself to IT class, so I pick culinary instead.

u/jaqattack02

As with anything, they are looking at short term gains rather than long term issues. Gotta make that number go up for shareholders.

u/jtmonkey

Yeah my son just took a marketing certificate at a local college and I showed him how to do everything they taught him over 6 months in about 5 minutes with ai. He was like, but then what do

u/angrathias

How do you verify the sql is pulling the right thing? I’ve been doing sql stuff for some 20 years, occasionally I’ll get lazy and let ChatGPT do it and it’ll get screwed up. You need to ensur

u/Gari_305

From the article This month, millions of young people will graduate from college and look for work in industries that have little use for their skills, view them as expensive and expendable,

u/ale_93113

At least for now, AI is improving faster than a human person does in their life time Over the last year AIs have gone from barely university freshmen to undergrad seniors levels of competenc

u/ale_93113

At least for now, AI is improving faster than a human person does in their life time Over the last year AIs have gone from barely university freshmen to undergrad seniors levels of competenc

u/EmeterPSN

The data we go through is mostly telemetries and error logs sent from units in field . I usually go over it manually to confirm the stuff I got from query is correct. Let's say I'm lookin

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