{"id":995578,"date":"2026-02-28T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995578"},"modified":"2026-02-28T09:24:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:54:47","slug":"was-the-ai-jobs-apocalypse-overstated-software-engineer-hiring-is-up-compute-costs-are-a-real-constraint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/28\/was-the-ai-jobs-apocalypse-overstated-software-engineer-hiring-is-up-compute-costs-are-a-real-constraint\/","title":{"rendered":"Was the AI jobs apocalypse overstated? Software engineer hiring is up, compute costs are a real constraint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every week, another warning claims that artificial intelligence is poised to erase white-collar jobs, with coders, analysts and office workers supposedly months away from being replaced by systems that work faster and without fatigue. Markets have reacted. Corporate executives have drawn up contingency plans. <\/p>\n<p>But a February 2026 report from Citadel Securities, titled The 2026 Global Intelligence Crisis, argues that the data does not support the urgency of those fears. After reviewing labour market indicators, AI adoption surveys, computing economics and historical patterns of technological change, the firm concludes that the widely discussed displacement crisis remains largely theoretical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every week, another warning claims that artificial intelligence is poised to erase white-collar jobs, with coders, analysts and office workers supposedly months away from being replaced by systems that work faster and without fatigue. Markets have reacted. Corporate executives have drawn up contingency plans. But a February 2026 report from Citadel Securities, titled The 2026 Global Intelligence Crisis, argues that the data does not support the urgency of those fears. After reviewing labour market indicators, AI adoption surveys, computing economics and historical patterns of technological change, the firm concludes that the widely discussed displacement crisis remains largely theoretical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}