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Interesting given the current age discrimination lawsuit: https://www.cohenmilstein.com/case-study/ibm-age-discriminat...
[dupe] Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46995146
Is this for their in-house development or for their consulting services? Because the latter would still be indicative of AI hurting entry level hiring since it may signal that other firms are not really willing to hire a full time entry level employee whose job may be obsoleted by AI, and paying for a consultant from IBM may be a lower risk alternative in case AI doesn't pan out.
Source: current (full time) staff consultant at a third party cloud consulting firm and former consultant (full time) at Amazon.
Is this for their in-house development or for their consulting services? Because the latter would still be indicative of AI hurting entry level hiring since it may signal that other firms are not really willing to hire a full time entry level employee whose job may be obsoleted by AI, and paying for a consultant from IBM may be a lower risk alternative in case AI doesn't pan out.
And if it is for consulting, I doubt very serious they will based in the US. You can’t be priced competitive hiring an entry level consultant in the US and no company is willing to pay the bill rate for US based entry level consultants unless their email address is @amazon.com or @google.com. Source: current (full time) staff consultant at a third party cloud consulting firm and former consultant (full time) at Amazo…
Not because it's wrong, but because it risks initiating the collapse of the AI bubble and the whole "AI is gonna replace all skilled work, any day now, just give us another billion".
Seems like IBM can no longer wait for that day.
Bold move. Not because it's wrong, but because it risks initiating the collapse of the AI bubble and the whole "AI is gonna replace all skilled work, any day now, just give us another billion". Seems like IBM can no longer wait for that day.
Ahh, what could possibly go wrong!
"software engineers will spend less time on routine coding—and more on interacting with customers" Ahh, what could possibly go wrong!