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🌻 42 notes on AI and work - by Jasmine Sun - @jasmine

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Hello from Shanghai! One of my main preoccupations this year has been AI’s labor impacts. It’s been a bit whiplashy—I went from intense concern to feeling more sanguine by the time everyone started freaking out about the “new grad jobs crisis.” I'm planning some deeper investigations into these questions for when I’m back (e.g. what does an “AI-native firm” actually look like in practice?), but in the interim, some more plane-ride aphorisms since you all liked the last :) I first became anxious about AI and labor impacts in February when my younger sister told me how hard it was for her friends to find jobs. Consulting and Big Tech SWE roles were no longer guaranteed; new grads were falling into masters programs instead, delaying their adulthood until the job market improved. If Stanford CS majors can’t get hired, what about everyone else? I asked economists whether to fret. Probably cyclical trends, they said with a shrug. The “new grad job crisis” is just a correction for Covid-era o

🌻 42 notes on AI & work economic anxiety at the jagged frontier Jasmine Sun Aug 12, 2025 197 26 42 Share Hello from Shanghai! One of my main preoccupations this year has been AI’s labor impacts. It’s been a bit whiplashy—I went from intense concern to feeling slightly more sanguine by the time everyone started freaking out about the “new grad jobs crisis.” I'm planning some deeper investigations into these questions for when I’m back (e.g. what does an “AI-native firm” actually look like in practice?), but in the interim, some more plane-ride aphorisms since you all liked the last :) I first

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