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I don't think hiring entry level people who regularly use AI will lead to the outcome he envisions. There have been studies that show AI usage can reduce the capacity to learn.
I have a personal, obviously anecdotal, experience where in my team we have a fresh from school business analyst who uses AI for literally every task. Their work is full of repeating ideas (because chatGPT loves to repeat itself), obvious logical errors (because AI can't reason), useless diagrams (because AI can't make diagrams, or they don't know how to prompt AI to make useful diagrams) and the fucking point by point breakdowns that make it blatantly clear it's just copy pasted AI response. And they don't learn any vital skills. They don't know how to get business requirements from the business. They don't know how to map out business processes. They don't even know what's written in their actual output of their "work" because they didn't do the work, AI did and they didn't even bother to proofread it.
I have very little trust in junior employees if they regularly use AI. They use it as a replacement for their work instead of using it as tool in their work. I'm not saying juniors shouldn't be hired. Juniors should be hired and they shouldn't be allowed to use AI. It's just brain rot.
reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 6 days ago
In academia there’s a pretty solid understanding that grad students need to be included broadly not just for their own edification but because they are the next generation of scientists and if we want the whole enterprise to keep rolling we need new generations.
It will be interesting to see how this pans out in the tech sector. Typically upgrades in technology that allow the workers to be more efficient towards a task only briefly make a company more money than their competitors (limited to the gap of time where others haven’t made the same ‘upgrade’). If they all cut out low level engineers to tighten profit margins they’ll have to pay increasingly large amounts to a shrinking and aging pool of engineers who have experience.
wirelesswire@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
A lot of executives in publicly traded companies only have a tenure of a few years, so they’re focused on pumping the stock for next quarter to maximize their bonus. They probably won’t be around if/when the whole thing comes crashing down; that’s the next guy’s problem.
reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 6 days ago
That’s my read too, they’re only focused on the short term sort of by design