Young Hires Drop 14 Percent Since ChatGPT
06 March 2026

Young Hires Drop 14 Percent Since ChatGPT

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Anthropic just released data showing 75 percent of programmer tasks are being handled by AI right now, yet programmer unemployment hasn't budged at all. Meanwhile bartenders and mechanics have zero automation exposure, and the only group seeing real impact is workers aged 22 to 25 trying to break into professional jobs, whose hiring rates dropped 14 percent after ChatGPT launched. The weirdest part is that 60 percent of companies are already cutting or freezing headcount because they expect AI to take over, not because it actually has yet.