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Not sure what these guys are studying but can tell you in the real world - essentially zero AI rollout in accounting world for anything serious. We've got access to some fancy enterprise copilot version, deep research, MS office integration and all that jazz. I use it diligently every day...to make me a summary of today's global news. When I try to apply it to actual accounting work. It hallucinates left, right & cen…
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Were there ever that many low-level Junior jobs though? In my experience, almost everyone in college would get an internship Junior / Senior year and convert into an FTE after graduation. Those that were not so talented or not so lucky usually struggled to find work, taking many months to finally land a job. Most typically at a Booz Allen Hamilton type of place that was just throwing bodies into seats. At all of my e…
That's funny because I've been rejected from Booz Allen so many times lol
AI is the popular cover excuse for layoffs. I can’t think of a single job that modern AI could easily replace.
Video and graphical designers? I’m not saying this with optimism, but rather as as observation. I know a handful of digital marketers, that work for different marketing firms - and the use of GenAI for those tasks have exploded. Usually tasks which they either had in-house people, or freelancers do the work. Now they just do it themselves.
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LLMs basically can't do arithmetic directly, trying to get them to do so is a skill issue. Most models can and will happily write and execute code to do that work instead.
What I described is a setup that DOES have pandas & python access and uses it heavily to figure out the excel files. Which is neat, but the output is still wrong
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My previous employer stopped hiring in the EU (except for the UK, where they were based, and South Africa, where the CTO was from) because the labor laws there made it too difficult for them to fire people, which was a particularly troublesome for them as they had almost quarterly layoffs. They switched back to hiring in the UK and US where there are fewer worker protections.
Maybe he should not hire people and then fire them after 3 months? Could it be that your previous employer is a terrible employer?
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My previous employer stopped hiring in the EU (except for the UK, where they were based, and South Africa, where the CTO was from) because the labor laws there made it too difficult for them to fire people, which was a particularly troublesome for them as they had almost quarterly layoffs. They switched back to hiring in the UK and US where there are fewer worker protections.
Does the UK really not have labor laws as strong as most countries in the EU? It's not like you can't fire people in EU, you just have to have an actual legitimate reason to do so, exactly because doing quarterly layoffs is absurd and shouldn't be tolerated by anyone.
On HN LLM capabilities with code are most often discussed, but it's hard to see how something like Google's Nano Banana model isn't an extinction level event for low-to-middle tier Photoshop and graphic design work.
What’s really happening is companies are using AI as an excuse to fire people and make those that remain work harder. Eventually people are going to mass quit and go into other industries.