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This Week in Startups · July 10, 2025 · 65m

AI Is Coming for Entry-Level Jobs First

Entry-level tech jobs dropped 25% as AI handles tasks that were previously assigned to junior employees. Calacanis examines the workforce implications and what new career paths emerge.

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When AI handles entry-level tasks, the career environment changes: there is no longer a bottom rung on the career ladder. Junior employees must start at a higher capability level.
Workers whose tasks are automated lose not just income but the meaning that came from responsibility for those tasks. AI displacement is partly a meaning crisis, not just an economic one.
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