AI Isn’t the End. It’s the Reset.

Lately, negativity feels like the default setting.

Every week, there’s another headline about how AI will replace jobs. Entry-level roles. Knowledge workers. Entire professions. The message is consistent: the end is near.

I’ll be honest, I didn’t even read this CNBC article https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/07/ai-entry-level-jobs-hiring-careers.html. Not because the topic isn’t important, but because the framing is exhausting. Everything is positioned as loss. Very little is said about opportunity.

We’ve Been Here Before. We’ve seen this pattern before.

When the cloud first showed up, the fear was real. Sys admins, network engineers, IT teams, and many believed their careers were coming to an end. Servers were abstracted. Infrastructure was automated. The question was simple: why would companies still need us?

Twenty years. Those roles didn’t disappear. They evolved. In many cases, we created more of them, DevOps, SecOps, DevSecOps, SRE, …. And ironically, we’re now back to talking about data centers again, just at a completely different scale.

This Isn’t a Hiring Problem

Back to the CNBC article. In my view, companies aren’t avoiding entry-level hiring because AI exists. They’re struggling because their most experienced people are overwhelmed.

There is too much noise. Too many tools. Too many models, frameworks, and opinions. It’s hard to tell what actually matters anymore. Leaders aren’t sure how work should flow. Teams aren’t clear where humans add the most value versus where machines should help.

This isn’t a hiring problem.  It’s a clarity problem.

Before adding more people, Organizations want to understand the new system.

Finally, Think Positive!

Instead of obsessing over which jobs AI will replace, we should be asking a different question: What work is AI creating?

So much is being invested in AI that it must be creating jobs somewhere.

The real risk isn’t AI/Automation. It’s staying stuck in old questions while the world moves on.

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