AI Career Switchers Face Bubble Timing Risk
Source: Klement on Investing
Workers chasing inflated AI salaries are repeating the pattern of past bubbles—entering when valuations peak rather than when genuine demand stabilizes. Klement's analysis suggests that career switchers optimizing for short-term compensation gains could lock in lifetime earnings losses if they sell skills in a sector that reprices downward, a particularly brutal outcome for mid-career professionals who sacrifice existing equity and seniority to jump in. Individual rationality (the AI job pays 40% more today) collides with collective outcomes (flooded labor supply, deflating multiples, depressed wages for the cohort).