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AI has not taken away programmers’ jobs
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Has AI taken away programmers’ jobs? Employment of entry-level code farmers in the United States has dropped by 20%, and experts worry that jobs will cease in ten years. According to CNBC, since the Claude Code of Anthropic came out in February 2025, the number of software development job postings in the United States has increased instead of falling. Data from Indeed Hiring Lab shows that during this period, software job recruitment bucked the trend and increased by nearly 15%, while the overall job market shrank by 7%. Coetzee, chairman of McKinsey North America, is not surprised by this: when the total amount of code written by companies reaches a new high, the demand for developers in the AI era remains strong. However, the growth is highly concentrated in senior and AI-related positions - from May 2025 to May of the following year, senior positions accounted for 71% of the increase in software recruitment, and positions with the word "AI" accounted for 37%. In other words, the spire is expanding while the base is shrinking. Juniors are being squeezed, the talent pipeline is sounding the alarm, and structural differentiation is directly on the head of fresh graduates. Stanford's 2026 AI Index shows that employment in AI-related fields has dropped by 16% among 22- to 25-year-olds since the rise of generative AI, while early-career software developers have seen an even greater drop of about 20%. Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for the same period also confirms: from 2023 to 2025, the number of data scientists increased by 36%, but the number of data entry fell by nearly 20%. Indeed expert Puri reminds students to be familiar with AI tools, but not to neglect core skills such as communication and leadership; a more pointed warning comes from the talent pipeline itself - "Today's beginners will be tomorrow's senior experts. If you don't invest now, companies will have no talent available in ten years." It's not a dead end in the long run: The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that the total number of software developers will still grow 10% from 2025 to 2035, from 1.72 million to 1.89 million. via AI News (author: AI Base)