As a millenial looking to change careers, because I was done with the old one. No, it sucks!
Comment on I'm not sure they will
dudeface@lemmy.world 1 month ago
As a millennial the only positive of LLMs is that younger generations won’t threaten my career
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
thingAmaBob@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I agree. I am more than happy to pass the torch when the time comes. I certainly don’t want to work forever, but I also want to be able to train competent replacements at some point.
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 1 month ago
They will if you don’t use AI though
dudeface@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Don’t believe you, seems like useless nonsense to me
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Considering how much competitive jobs have become refusing to use a powerful tool like AI won’t help. I’m not saying that you should use it just that people using it will be advantaged over these who don’t
dudeface@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I work in a creative industry, as far as we are concerned it is plagiarism
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 1 month ago
Younger generations are, by and large, as technologically illiterate as boomers are. It doesnt apply to all of them, but the majority of them grew up with nothing but easy UIs. They may not chicken-pick to type, but they still cant troubleshoot anything and tend to know nothing outside of interacting with a typical interface. They definitely grew up with nothing like Windows 95 or 98 (or even XP) where you had to actually understand how a computer works to some extent to use the thing (or fix it)
Tower@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Wholeheartedly agree. This is from 2013, and I feel it’s only gotten worse since then.
llii@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Oh, I remember reading this … 13 years ago … . 👴
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Arguably even windows 95/98 was rediculously easy compared to dos or Unix systems before it.
Sit a kid down in front of a c64 with a manual and see if they can do anything on it. If they can read the manual that is…
Sure these systems are “obsolete” but the brain training is priceless. Kids now are training their brains to love ads and corporations. Its gotten super bad. And I’m not even an old person (just been into tech history my whole life) so its rediculous I’m even saying this.
Malica@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
We tried to teach ours and got “dad can you just fix it I’m in a game”. Then no desire to learn in free time.
cass80@programming.dev 1 month ago
Would you mind sharing how you tried to teach and what you think went wrong?
Malica@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
When we built his PC we invited him to learn about it as we picked components and as we put them together. Every time he had a computer problem, we’d try to explain why it happened and how we fixed it. Just no interest at all unfortunately.
lastweakness@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The older gen z too I would say
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I think all the time about how a lot of boomer guys know how to work on cars real well.
This is because most of them took auto shop classes in high school.
As a millenial, I’m great with computers… because I learned how to use them in school. It appears that after I left school, educators were like “welp, kids know how to use computers now!” and stopped teaching kids how to use computers in school. This is both bonkers and mind numbing. I also wish I knew more about working on cars. Anyway.