About the types of jobs, I think AI is taking all kinds of jobs including intelectual ones. AI can code, AI knows law (and many more cases) so one person using AI gets the strenghts of multiple ppl.
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We are far from that yet. IT in most companies is a joke.
See this trend https://news.crunchbase.com/startups/tech-layoffs/
"Tech Layoffs: US Companies That Cut Jobs In 2022, 2023, 2024 And 2025
By the numbers
Layoffs during the week ended Dec. 17, 2025: At least 251 U.S. tech sector employees were laid off or scheduled for layoffs, per a Crunchbase News tally.
In 2025: Around 126,352 workers have been let go from U.S.-based tech companies so far according to our tally.
In 2024: At least 95,667 workers at U.S.-based tech companies lost their jobs in 2024, according to a Crunchbase News tally.
In 2023: More than 191,000 workers in U.S.-based tech companies (or tech companies with a large U.S. workforce) were laid off in mass job cuts.
In 2022: More than 93,000 jobs were slashed from public and private tech companies in the U.S."
And actually AI pointed me to this article.
We need to check new hires as well, or get netto reduction because I don't think that is netto reduction but the numbers are still huge.
They jusy rehired cheap labour abroad. Depending on the work, they hire east europe or india. AI didnt/cant replace the jobs. I say that overseeing AI budget and investment projects myself for a large corp. One company close to Nvidia pitched us recently about AI "agents" and we all nearly burst out laughing, it was so embarassingly weak.