Stanford HAI Data: Software Developer Employment for Ages 22–25 Down ~20% Since 2024 While Older Devs at Same Firms Grew

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As of June 3, 2026 trackers show 212 layoff events impacting ~134,600 workers (~874/day), with ~50,000 cuts this year explicitly linked to AI (~17% of ~300,000 total). The sharpest signal is generational: entry-level/junior software roles are contracting while ML infrastructure, model evaluation, and AI safety roles remain in acute shortage. The junior-hiring collapse is the clearest labor-market fingerprint of AI coding tools yet.