OpenAI Backstop, Senior Job Market, & Vibe-Coding

1/ OpenAI looking for a bailout?

OpenAI’s CFO proposed a backstop from the government. However, the idea that the U.S. government might backstop operating, compute, or data center expenses for OpenAI seems both antithetical and anticompetitive.

David Sacks, the AI Czar, shut that idea down pretty fast.

2/ Same job market for seniors, fewer for juniors

The divide continues to widen; while senior professionals are still in demand, junior roles are shrinking rapidly.

https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1986909272697880897?s=20
This is becoming one of the biggest downstream effects of automation and AI tools: they make organizations top-heavy.

3/ The AI Usage Bell Curve

This is the classic bell-curve meme, applied to AI. And it couldn’t be more true when vibe coding!

4/ McKinsey’s AI Report:

AI agents replacing labor aren’t evenly distributed — they’re concentrated in technology, media/telecommunications, and healthcare.

It makes sense: these are the industries packed with white-collar inefficiencies, repetitive documentation, and manual decision loops ripe for automation.

5/ Yale: “AI has caused no labor disruption”

This new Yale study is fascinating because it goes directly against the mainstream narrative that “AI is coming for everyone’s jobs.”

Maybe displacement hasn’t happened yet, or maybe it’s hiding in plain sight, masked by new hybrid roles and productivity boosts.

Exciting times in the world of AI!