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The article discusses the decline of lucrative tech jobs for new graduates, highlighting the story of Manasi Mishra, who, despite a computer science degree and early coding experience, struggled to find tech employment and was only contacted by Chipotle. It also explores how AI tools are both helping and hindering job seekers in the current competitive market.
The promise of prosperity in computer science has collapsed, with fresh graduates facing high unemployment rates and limited job prospects due to AI automation and layoffs at major tech companies, leading to a challenging job market and stories of frustration among new graduates.
Economist Brad DeLong argues that recent struggles of college graduates to find jobs are primarily due to economic slowdown and policy uncertainty, not AI or automation, which have been wrongly blamed for the hiring difficulties faced by new entrants to the workforce.