Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn 968: Is AI Automating Away All Coding Jobs?
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Feb 20, 2026 A data-driven look at whether AI is erasing coding careers, with surprising labor-market numbers since late 2022. Topics include which white-collar roles are actually growing, how technology upgrades jobs instead of just replacing them, emerging AI-related occupations, and practical actions technical professionals can take to stay resilient.
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White-Collar Jobs Are Growing
- Since late 2022, U.S. white-collar employment has grown by roughly 3 million jobs despite GenAI hype.
- Wages and employment in many supposedly threatened professions (developers, radiologists, paralegals) have risen, not fallen.
Tasks Get Automated, Jobs Get Upgraded
- Technology typically automates tasks, not whole jobs, which leads to job upgrading and new higher-value work.
- Roles combining technical depth with oversight and coordination have grown the most while routine back-office roles have fallen.
Claude Code Debugged A Data-Leak Bug
- Jon Krohn recounts using Claude Code to debug a model-training pipeline and fix a subtle data-leak bug in minutes.
- The example shows current AI can process whole repos and meaningfully speed expert work while explaining its reasoning.