It's tempting to connect "AI is kind of like having an always-awake intern" with "nobody is hiring interns" but I'm skeptical. I think this is more about the decline of the corporate enterprise model in general. Exponential growth can't continue forever. Management is trying to force the curve to be exponential by no longer hiring anyone who isn't clearly going to improve profits in the short term.
Corporate models seek to grow exponentially, with hit and miss results. Not sure where there are any signs of that stopping.
More widely:
Businesses, economies, and natural ecosystems, are all full of both exponential drivers and limitations. Since the first life form.
It isn’t a model that is going away. Or that can go away. Unless there are no new opportunities for new things, which seems unlikely anytime soon, there will always be new pockets of exponential growth.
> the decline of the corporate enterprise model in general. Exponential growth can't continue forever.
People have been saying things like that probably since the creating of the corporate model. (Exponential is too much, but I'll take that as exaggeration to make the point.)
