Initial effects of AI technology on employment look positive

Post by ofjcihen » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 6:59 PM UTC

lovich wrote: post #160

ofjcihen wrote: post #158

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I don’t know if those companies are doing it for the right reasons but I’ve implemented a policy of showing me that you can do the job manually as well. The reason being that if you can’t then you probably can’t tell when the AI is wrong. My company is strictly Cybersecurity/IR though so that may vary with other specialties.

If the interview was specifically about doing it manually that’s one thing. I called them schizophrenic because the companies I’ve interviewed with seem like they desperately want to be on the AI bandwagon and want you to demonstrate the ability to effectively use AI, but they don’t currently know how to evaluate that and panic and default back to their old heuristics. It is very difficult in 45-50 minutes to complet…

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 10:07 PM UTC

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rayiner wrote: post #70

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Building and maintaining data centers aren’t minimum wage jobs. They are the best kind of jobs: accessible to somewhat above average people across a broad range of backgrounds. (As opposed to upper middle class knowledge worker jobs that are only accessible to the cognitive top 10%.)

I think we are kidding ourselves if we think writing software was only accessible to the cognitive top 10%. And even if that were the case for the highly paid software jobs, there was a long tail of WordPress customization type jobs that required less experience and will probably be going away.