I’ve long hypothesized that, as companies adopt AI (more accurately LLM’s) in their processes, the skillset required to enter the job market will change. You don’t need an entry level team member – that role is filled by the AI. You need a senior level person who can manage, direct, and oversee the junior “team members”. What that looks like varies by industry – in software development, you don’t need junior developers. You need a senior dev who does quality control on the generated code, integration, and debugging.

There’s now research backing up my expectation — https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5425555

While the number of senior employees has continued to increase, the number of junior employees has actually decreased in the past few years.