https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/02/job-openings-april-2026.html
Private security is hiring. Also line cook, landscape architect, data entry.
@ak yeah it is the entry level white collar jobs that are in short supply.
@ae From what I'm hearing even menial jobs are hard to find.
ai is 70% hype, the remainder is real.
it can code fairly well, you still need to plan/arch/decide and review. devs will just do more work, instead of six projects they will have 12. they will work you more than ever.
it can write nicely, thats fine. Vision works, audio/tts works. transcription mostly works. but that's so small that productivity grows only fractionally.
anything deterministic is a sh-t show, hard to build, hard to maintain. complicated. solving business problems is even harder as most folks are trying to use ai to fix problems that cannot be fixed, messy data, erps fragmented, bus processes broken. this is why you do not see big wins on the enterprise side (aside from things that vision, automation, etc. can do).
so yeah, there is value but it's far from 'ai replaces everyone'. it replaces certain things that would have been replaced with automation anyway + coding.
so yeah, it's 70% hype. it'll calm down after venture folks and tech bros get their $$$ back - at that point we are going to a traditional model where things happen gradually and over time, just like things that happened with the internet bo-m, cloud, mobile, etc.
I stopped going to CNBC when they changed to the new privacy policy which basically states they will grab what ever they can and sell it to who ever will buy it. Similar to the policy CNN put in place last year.
What kind of jobs? If you are interested in operating a shovel or a spatula than maybe you will be OK. Read about how the government job numbers are compiled and you may change your opinion about them. They tell you all about it right on their website.
Here is an article that says nearly half of companies are planning head count reductions.
Yes it is from Fox but they typically don't publish much that is negative on the current efforts of this administration:
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/top-ceos-brace-downturn-warn-us-economy-worsen-in-next-6-months
If you have some time on your hands this guy talks for about an hour on why the AI bo-m will bust and soon. It is a little biased but entertaining.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXiOO-nKqpw&t=1s
This tells you that all that "AI layoffs" sh-t was fake and a smoke screen.
It was just a good old purge