How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era

TL;DR

The video argues that the traditional safe career path (e.g., CS degree → big tech job) is no longer safe because AI is already displacing entry-level work (CS majors now have 6.1% unemployment vs. art history’s 3.0%). Founders should reject credentialism and instead focus on building real things with AI, leveraging agency, and targeting niche markets.

Key insights

• The New York Fed (Feb 2024) reports CS major unemployment at 6.1%, art history at 3.0%, indicating the traditional CS career path is inverted.
• AI is “very good at following instructions,” so humans competing on that basis will lose; what matters is agency and the ability to figure things out independently.
• Many college CS curricula ban AI coding tools (e.g., Cursor, vibe-coding), which is analogous to banning Google when the internet emerged — students miss learning the tools they will actually need.