No Work

Even for those who graduated college a few years before they could outsource their entire education to ChatGPT are not doing so great in the workplace, but when this generation of grads enter the workforce it will likely be a new low: 

“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate,” he said. “Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.” That future may arrive sooner than expected when you consider what a short window college really is. Already, roughly half of all undergrads have never experienced college without easy access to generative AI. “We’re talking about an entire generation of learning perhaps significantly undermined here,” said Green, the Santa Clara tech ethicist. “It’s short-circuiting the learning process, and it’s happening fast.”

In tech increasingly the expectation is that every role, every function in the organization is able to boost their productivity using AI tooling. The goal is to reduce headcount and get more done with less. Realistically, the cuts will not be uniform across the board. Logically, middle managers that don't produce actual work and only package the news of other people's work will need to go. 

The news of work done can be reported in infinite number of ways by AI. When it comes to work itself, people who have actually done work in the past, know how do it without AI and are experienced enough to catch hidden errors and gaps will likely stay to be the human check for AI generated work. These new grads who are constructively illiterate, cannot take on these roles and neither can they bring any unique value at the low-end because they only have the ability to cheat. That skill is not needed in the workplace - an AI agent will do just as well if not better.