However, employment of young workers (ages 22–25) in AI-exposed occupations now stands 19% below where it would be had it kept pace with that of their less-exposed peers; experienced workers show no comparable gap.
It has also not even been 2 years since "vibe coding" was coined and software engineering began to be transformed. We are still in early days of diffusion, and large-scale economic surveys have a significant lag time compared to AI capabilities.
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Not every metric: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/ai-is-hitting-entry-level...
From the underlying Stanford study: https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/publication/canaries-in-...
It has also not even been 2 years since "vibe coding" was coined and software engineering began to be transformed. We are still in early days of diffusion, and large-scale economic surveys have a significant lag time compared to AI capabilities.