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August 11, 2025 | Read Online Welcome back. xAI’s legal chief Robert Keele stepped down after just over a year, saying he couldn’t keep “riding two horses at once” between family and the job—plus some “daylight between worldviews” with Elon Musk. Keele went from running his own law firm for three weeks to navigating a $6 billion funding round and X acquisition, then decided maybe seeing his toddlers was more important than whatever Musk had cooking next. IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. 170,000 CS students trained for jobs that no longer exist 2. ChatGPT convinced ordinary man he was genius inventor over 300 hours 3. How Apple plans to redeem worst-rated voice assistant JOBFORCE170,000 CS students trained for jobs that no longer exist  Manasi Mishra graduated from Purdue with a computer science degree and one job interview at Chipotle. Despite learning to code in elementary school and following tech executives’ decade-long promises of six-figure starting salaries, the 21-year-old’s TikTok plea for employment captured a harsh new reality.Watch now on TikTok@khuhlinasomebody pls hire me #compsci #techlayoffs #newgrad #csnewgrad #software #womeninstem #chipotle Computer science majors now face 6.1% unemployment rates while computer engineering majors hit 7.5%, both ranking among the highest unemployment rates of any college major. According to Federal Reserve data, computer science ranks 8th worst for unemployment out of 74 tracked majors, while computer engineering ranks 3rd worst. Art history (3.0%) and biology (3.0%) graduates face half the unemployment rate.While CS graduates earn $80,000 compared to art history’s $45,000 starting salaries, they’re struggling to find any employment. Computer-related majors now have unemployment rates approaching fine arts (7.0%) and anthropology (9.4%). Since the early 2010s, billionaires and presidents have urged students to “learn to code,” driving computer science enrollment to over 170,000 undergraduates by 2024. But today’s leaders tell a different story: Elon Musk now warns “probably none of us will have a job” due to AI, while Bill Gates pivots his advice to “AI, energy and biosciences“. The entry-level jobs these students trained for are evaporating across industries. We’ve covered how AI coding agents are replacing junior developers with tools that generate thousands of lines of code instantly.Wall Street banks eliminating junior analyst positions as AI handles pitch decks and valuation tablesLinkedIn warns AI is “breaking” career ladders across finance and professional services College graduate unemployment climbed above 6% while national unemployment remains around 4%. One graduate applied to 5,762 tech jobs with just 13 interviews. The traditional pipeline from college to experienced professional roles faces unprecedented pressure as AI eliminates stepping-stone positions that once trained the next generation.  This crisis exposes a fundamental flaw in how we’ve structured career development in the digital age. For decades, entry-level positions served as society’s unofficial apprenticeship system where junior developers learned from senior ones, analysts worked their way up to VPs, and institutions organically transferred knowledge across generations. AI is severing this chain. When algorithms can instantly generate code, analyze data, or update spreadsheets, companies eliminate not just individual jobs but entire developmental pathways. We’re creating a “missing middle” where employers want experienced workers but provide no mechanism to create them. Company culture may prove crucial in preserving these pathways. Research shows 98% of Fortune 500 companies maintain mentoring programs, achieving median profits over twice as high as those without. Organizations that prioritize human development understand that eliminating entry-level roles threatens “future leadership pipelines and innovation capacity.” Companies with strong mentoring cultures may resist the temptation to sacrifice long-term talent development for short-term efficiency gains. |
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