--- title: "Vision" canonical: "https://current.tinyfish.ai/issue/23/vision" publication: "TinyFish" publisher: "TinyFish" language: "en-US" guide: "https://current.tinyfish.ai/llms.txt" permalink: "https://current.tinyfish.ai/issue/23/vision" issue: 23 section: "vision" description: "Where human-AI collaboration is heading" authors: ["Nora Kaplan"] published: 2026-04-06 updated: 2026-04-02 articles: 9 --- # TinyFish > CURRENT is a journal about AI agents in production, for the engineering and product leaders who have to make them work. Drawing on experience building enterprise web agents, it explains why the demo succeeded and the deployment didn't, and what that means for choosing vendors, briefing the board, and avoiding mistakes others have already made. [Read on the website]() ## Issue 23 — Vision Where human-AI collaboration is heading ### The Missing Rung - [The Infrastructure Nobody Budgeted For]() — By [Nora Kaplan]() · Published 2026-04-01 · Format: The Missing Rung A senior analyst pauses over a number that passed every automated check. Something about it, against a pattern she's absorbed across thousands of similar numbers over years, makes her stop. She couldn't fully articulate why. Nearby, a junior colleague registers the pause. Files it somewhere wordless. That transmission has no line item, no owner, no design document. Entry-level hiring in the U.S. is down 35% since 2023, and the savings show up immediately. What those roles were quietly producing has no corresponding line in the budget. ### Two Bets on What Replaces It - [IBM Bets That Watching Builds Knowing]() — By [Nora Kaplan]() · Published 2026-04-01 · Format: Two Bets on What Replaces It IBM is tripling entry-level U.S. hiring while deploying agents that handle the work those hires used to learn from. The redesigned junior role is oversight: reviewing agent output, flagging anomalies, collaborating across teams. It sounds like a better job. It might be. But the old path to expertise ran through years of doing things badly and recovering. If the new path runs through watching, does it arrive at the same place? - [PwC's Hourglass Org Runs on a Reservoir It Can't Refill]() — By [Nora Kaplan]() · Published 2026-04-01 · Format: Two Bets on What Replaces It PwC wants the agent-era workforce built around generalists: experienced professionals orchestrating AI across entire workflows instead of executing narrow tasks. The model works, for now, because today's generalists spent years as specialists first. They know what good looks like because they once produced it by hand. PwC's own workforce paper admits as much. So what happens at the top of the hourglass when the pipeline that filled it with depth stops running? ### The Oversight Generation - [Approximately Correct Since Day One — A Conversation From 2028]() — Published 2026-04-01 *This interview has not happened yet. It is set in April 2028, constructed from the trajectory of real shifts already underway — IBM's redesigned entry-level roles, KPMG's "Great Skills Reset" framework, the governance infrastructure being built as you read this. The subject is fictional. The situation he describes probably isn't.* ### Hiring for How You Think - [When AI Knows Everything, Hiring Filters Shift From Knowledge to Cognition]() — Published 2026-04-01 McKinsey's Solve assessment doesn't quiz candidates on business frameworks. It watches them play. Over 110 gamified minutes, the tool tracks every click, every pivot, every data point examined or ignored. Process matters as much as outcome. ### Further Reading - **How AI Is Changing the Nature of Entry-Level Work** — [Source]() — Published 2026-04-01 The 35% decline in entry-level postings, and why those roles were always doing double duty as paid education. - **The Bottom Rung Returns as AI Reshapes Entry-Level Jobs** — [Source]() — Published 2026-04-01 IBM's counterargument: triple entry-level hiring, but rebuild every role around judgment and oversight. The strongest case against the doom frame. - **AI and the Entry-Level Job** — [Source]() — Published 2026-04-01 HBR traces the pipeline forward: cut junior roles now, and in five years your senior talent pool is hollow. - **AI Shifts Expectations for Entry-Level Jobs** — [Source]() — Published 2026-04-01 Programmer employment dropped 27.5% while design-oriented roles held. New grads are now expected to slot in at a higher level from day one. ## Other sections in Issue 23 - [Daily Brief]() - [Market Pulse]() - [Foundations]() - [Practitioner's Corner]() - [Echoes]() ## More - [Publication guide]() - [Issue archive]()