FT columnist, writing about work, technology & economics.
Sarah O'Connor
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This looks like Jevons paradox in action BUT that doesn't preclude a big shift in WHO is in demand. We're seeing job ads (and salaries) for senior engineers going up; not so much for juniors. Seniority-biased technological change?
In spite of all the talk of Claude Code and Codex meaning the end of humans writing code, software job adverts are actually going up, according to @jburnmurdoch.ft.com's crunching of millions of job ads for this week's The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/7325...
Sarah O'Connor
Sarah O'Connor
I love that this headline is the most-read thing on FT.com
Great piece from @soumayakeynes.ft.com today on economic warfare. www.ft.com/content/b9f1...
Great reporting from @rafeuddin.ft.com on Amazon's misadventures with AI coding (which have coincided with big headcount reductions) www.ft.com/content/7cab...
Sarah O'Connor
Striking chart on the gender skew among AI researchers. In academia, the number of top AI scientists who are women has been growing slowly. In the private sector? Not so much.
(chart from this vg paper from Uni of Chicago bfi.uchicago.edu/working-pape...)
Sarah O'Connor
These guys are creating the future we're all going to have to live in. And they are pretty much ALL guys.
Our 6 year old got a label-maker ❤️
Sarah O'Connor
Sarah O'Connor
Sarah O'Connor
Sarah O'Connor
FT commenters are the best commenters (from this v good piece about the OpenClaw craze in China www.ft.com/content/e242...)
Economists: you know I love you, but I think it's time you gave it a rest with all these "which jobs are most exposed to AI?" analyses. www.ft.com/content/8d3b...
It depends on its damage to the target, potential for blowback and durability
