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AI Is Wrecking Young Americans' Job Prospects

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Re: AI Is Wrecking Young Americans' Job Prospects

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> Hiring juniors, while good for the industry in the long run, doesn't really benefit an individual company If this is really a concern, require a long-term employment contract from incoming candidates.

Unethical bullshit, but sure

Nothing unethical about voluntary contracts that you freely enter into.

There are tradeoffs and you'd do well to acknowledge agency in this world.

Re: AI Is Wrecking Young Americans' Job Prospects

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This could be the next iteration of stealing talent to prevent others from owning the market. An actually intelligent investor could dominate by bucking the trend and hire lots of smart, eager junior candidates. When other tech companies realize GenAI will never produce what they want, there will be a rush to re-hire developers. Top talent all started as junior talent. Grab that pool so nobody else will have it.

> GenAI will never produce what they want What's your argument supporting this? Ten years ago GenAI couldn't produce two coherent sentences. We've come a long way, what makes you think it won't go further?

> Ten years ago GenAI couldn't produce two coherent sentences.

Depending on the question, it still can't.

It's kinda crazy how you view repeating probabilistic outputs as "coherent sentences".

> We've come a long way, what makes you think it won't go further?

Where did I say it won't go further? I said it will never produce what they want.

Those are different things.

Regardless, you're focused on the wrong point.

Re: AI Is Wrecking Young Americans' Job Prospects

#123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unethical bullshit, but sure

Nothing unethical about voluntary contracts that you freely enter into. There are tradeoffs and you'd do well to acknowledge agency in this world.

Sure, for varying values of "freely"

Re: AI Is Wrecking Young Americans' Job Prospects

#124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nothing unethical about voluntary contracts that you freely enter into. There are tradeoffs and you'd do well to acknowledge agency in this world.

Sure, for varying values of "freely"

Is someone being forced? Can you call the police?
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