The Class of 2026 is graduating into something their advisors did not fully prepare them for. Not a recession, not a tight market in the traditional sense. Something more structurally permanent: the entry point to white-collar work has moved.

This week, a few pieces of news landed in quick succession that, taken together, tell a remarkably coherent story. Dario Amodei of Anthropic told the New York Times that up to half of all entry-level white-collar jobs could dissolve within five years. Separately, Yale's School of Management published research showing that AI job destruction is hitting before careers can even start, with one striking finding buried in the piece: computer science majors are now having more difficulty finding jobs than humanities majors.

The grind was the bridge. AI automated the bridge.

Read the full essay: https://afterthegrind.ai/posts/2026-05-05-the-entry-point-moved/

Andrew Perkins is the author of After the Grind and Chair of the Department of Marketing and International Business at Washington State University's Carson College of Business.