Comment by layer8
1 month ago
The title is a bit misleading. Reading the article, the argument seems to be that entry-level applicants (are expected to) have the highest AI literacy, so they want them to drive AI adoption.
1 month ago
The title is a bit misleading. Reading the article, the argument seems to be that entry-level applicants (are expected to) have the highest AI literacy, so they want them to drive AI adoption.
At least today, I expect this will fail horribly. The challenge today isn't AI literacy in my experience, its domain knowledge required to keep LLMs on the rails.
People literate in AI, but inexperienced in all other facts. What could go wrong!
> People literate in AI, but inexperienced in all other facts. What could go wrong!
It sounds like it's appeal to MBAs, who are people literate in management, but inexperienced in all other areas.
ClawdBot Boardroom Edition
Sounds like the first step of a galactic scale fuck up
"Galactic scale" and "Fuck Up" are on brand for IBM.
It is IBM after all
Totally fair point.
dotcom implosion redux
It certainly feels that way. I was there. Fortunately had just waltzed into the tech side of things and scurried off back to my professional career for a couple of years.
I watched a lot of stuff burn. It was horrifying. We are nearly there again.
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I hope they have a good 10 years experience in that "literacy".
I just run sub agents in parallel. Yesterday I used Codex for the first time yesterday. I spun up 350,640 agents and got 10 years of experience in 15 minutes.
New metric: agent-hours spent on a task. Or so we measure in tokens. Clearly more tokens burned == more experience right?
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Unpatchable xp glitch
You should also mention how many millions lines of code you* created.
25 years of LLM experience for a mid-level
"AI is going to wipe out junior developers!"
They actually hire more junior developers
"Uhh .. to adopt AI better they're hiring more junior developers!"
This cope is especially low quality with the context that this is just another purge of older workers at IBM.