FloQast 的暑期实习生 Sam Otto 向公司新聘的人工智慧总监询问自己能如何帮忙，接著花了一整个周末观看两支各长达 8 小时的 YouTube 影片，并试用一个工作流程自动化平台。在主管点头同意下，他把剩下的财务实习时间都用来简化各种任务，例如分析竞争对手的财报电话会议，以及把公司资料系统中的图表拉进简报投影片；在他暑期结束的展示中，主管们对他在缺乏技术背景的情况下竟完成了如此多的开发工作感到惊讶。

企业越来越常寻找像 Otto 这样的年轻员工，把对 AI 的热情带进职场，而整体入门级市场则持续疲弱。根据纽约联邦准备银行的数据，去年应届大学毕业生失业率徘徊在接近 6%，就业不足率则达到近 43%，为 2020 年以来最高。Shopify 去年表示自己是一家 AI-first business，要求申请增聘人手的主管先证明 AI 无法完成该工作，并把实习生计划从 25 人扩大到接近 1,000 人，且去年雇用了 120 多名实习生转为全职；Cloudflare 也采取了同样做法。

文章描述了对过度依赖 AI 的担忧，包括有主管表示年轻员工可能更喜欢用 AI 而不是打电话，或者在对 AI 下提示词时所知不足、无法提供足够好的指令。KPMG 发现，几乎三分之一的美国执行长对于决策过度依赖 AI 可能削弱批判性思考感到不安。Intuit 让新工程师先接受长达数月的训练营，再放手让他们上手，并表示初级开发者从 Day 1 起就能生成大量程式码；而 Amazon 在多起停机事件被归因于 AI 生成程式码的问题后，现在要求初级与中阶工程师的贡献接受更严格的审查。ServiceNow 发现，Gen Z 对 AI 最大的恐惧是依赖与认知退化，而不是失去工作；Otto 则表示，他计划在校园里建立一个 vibecoding 社团，并在明年夏天去 Apple Inc. 的 Cupertino 校园，进行他的财务实习。

Sam Otto, a summer intern at FloQast, asked the company’s newly hired director of artificial intelligence how he could help, then spent an entire weekend watching two eight-hour-long YouTube videos and experimenting with a workflow automation platform. With his boss’s blessing, he spent the rest of his finance internship streamlining tasks such as analyzing competitors’ earnings calls and pulling charts from the company’s data system into slide decks, and managers at his end-of-summer presentation were surprised by the amount of development work he had done despite his nontechnical background. (Key numbers: 8)

Companies are increasingly looking to young workers like Otto to bring AI enthusiasm into the workplace, while the overall entry-level market has weakened. Unemployment among recent college graduates hovered near 6% last year and underemployment reached almost 43%, the highest since 2020, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Shopify said it was an AI-first business last year, required managers requesting additional workers to first prove AI could not do the work, expanded its intern program from 25 to almost 1,000, and hired more than 120 interns full time last year; Cloudflare has followed suit.

The article describes concerns about overreliance on AI, including managers who say young workers may prefer AI to phone calls or may use AI without enough knowledge to prompt it well. KPMG found that almost a third of US chief executive officers were uneasy about how overreliance on AI for decision-making may limit critical thinking. Intuit put new engineers through monthslong boot camps before letting them loose, saying junior developers can generate huge amounts of code from Day 1, and Amazon now requires contributions from junior and midlevel engineers to be reviewed more thoroughly after several outages were attributed to issues with AI-generated code. ServiceNow found that Gen Z’s biggest fear about AI was dependency and cognitive decline, not job loss, and Otto said he plans to build a vibecoding club on campus and go to Apple Inc.’s Cupertino campus next summer for its finance internship.