AI and the vanishing first rung: firms quietly stop backfilling junior roles
LexSokolin · x · 2026-10-20
Lex Sokolin, after speaking to an investment management group about the machine economy, keeps returning to junior hiring: firms genuinely say they need young people to learn the work, yet AI makes it easier to justify leaving each vacancy unfilled, one departure at a time. Eventually fewer people can do the work without AI. He explores the tension and the financial incentives behind it in Fintech Blueprint.
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