‘It’s not looking good’: The unemployment rate for recent grads is the highest in five years, but AI is not primarily to blame — at least not yet.
https://hechingerreport.org/what-its-like-to-enter-the-job-market-in-the-middle-of-an-ai-revolution/
TACOMA, Wash. — Noah Herd fell in love with computers as a kid. He taught himself to fix his family’s desktop when it broke and, after learning a programming language, built a video game on his own. But it wasn’t until years later, when he took notice of tech companies offering six-figure salaries to programmers during the pandemic, that he seriously considered a career in coding. “It’s cool to build things with software,” said Herd, a 30-year-old senior at the University of Washington Tacoma majoring in computer science. “It requires more creativity than you think.”
