U.S. Added Just 57,000 Jobs in June as AI Drags Tech and Finance Hiring

My take: This one worried me — but not for the obvious reason. The June jobs report dropped today with a rough number: only 57,000 payrolls added when economists expected 185,000. The biggest drag? Tech and finance are shedding 28,000 positions a month — not through dramatic mass layoffs, but through silence: companies stop refilling seats as they empty. Like the apartment in your building that's been 'for rent' for six months after the neighbor left 😅. Stanford documented the pattern: where AI automates tasks, jobs fall; where AI empowers workers, jobs hold. I build apps with Claude Code without being an engineer, and that's exactly the gap. The question isn't 'will AI replace me?' — it's 'am I one of the ones using it, or one of the ones just waiting around?' That's just my take 🙄.