AI Fires Gen Z Coders, Mid-Level Bots Celebrate 2025
Stanford researchers Erik Brynjolfsson, Bharat Chandar, and Ruyu Chen delivered a not-so-cheery memo in 2025: entry-level software jobs are down a whopping 13%, negatively impacting 22-25-year-old coders, right after OpenAI's Hall-of-Fame chatbot ChatGPT crashed the party in late 2022. While rookie devs' employment plummeted nearly 20%, overworked mid-level bots are reportedly thriving. Giants like Meta's Zuckerberg predict AI taking over mid-tier engineers, Klarna's CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski has already hit pause on hiring, and Shopify demands proof AI can't clone tasks before adding humans. Duolingo's Luis von Ahn politely axed contractors for AI. Even 3.5 to 5 million payroll records from ADP couldn't mask this AI-powered apprenticeship apocalypse.
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When AI can replace your 22-25-year-old coding self but canāt quite mimic middle managers, you know the job marketās just digitally ghosted the interns.
Millennials and Gen Z coding dreams hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete thanks to ChatGPT and friends turning junior devs into obsolete startup legends.
Metaās Zuckerberg brags about AI engineers, Klarna stops hiring because robots 'do it all,' and Iām just trying to human like the economy still wants me.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 8/26/2025 | Author: Sarah Jackson
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