The sales pitch was... we'd be left behind without adoption. I'm [still] waiting. Years later, my days are no different. Teaching people who wouldn't bother to read manuals or now, consult their chat bots. Never mind my own 'missing pieces of flair', what about theirs?
Not everyone is using AI for everything
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Re: Not everyone is using AI for everything
#402On the post-grad job hunt right now - I note that most employers will ask in a technical interview or whiteboard interview "how are you using LLMs?" It's tough to answer because you want to hedge for both an AI enthused employer and an AI hesitant employer with limited information about who they are and how they personally use these products. I've been responding with a sort of long winded answer about how 'there is…
some employers may like this wishy washy answers.
personally i find this offensive and would disqualify the candidate.
Re: Not everyone is using AI for everything
#403Earlier quoted context omitted.
Having any kind of integrity is expensive, financially, emotionally and sometimes physically. Software development is not that high-stakes of a job anyway. There is always another interview. I got another one soon enough, where the employee AI policy fully aligned with mine, so telling the truth was an easy, pleasant experience. Imagine you are a pilot or doctor. Any kind of interview reply that doesn't fully align w…
What I'm telling you is that it isn't an issue of integrity, and that only makes sense from a false premise - that the strictest, most blunt response is what is truest, what is being asked for, or a reflection of your alignment with the organization's values. That's really not the case. If I asked you how you were doing would you tell me about the traumas you're currently processing? Would you feel like it was a viol…
Culture begins at the front door, corporate or personal.
I would expect absolute sincerity from pilot or a doctor during the interview, including history of mental health and professional mistakes. Authority over lives of people must come with full transparency. If you are caught lying or misrepresenting your experience and skills, not only you would lose your job, you should be blacklisted from occupation as well.
In every skill, everyone benefits from honesty, both employers and employees. But I am aware this is a minority view.
Re: Not everyone is using AI for everything
#404Earlier quoted context omitted.
When I was starting out in my career it was "take the first job offer that comes along or starve/become homeless" so no, sometimes the personal cost would be unreasonably high to expect of anyone This effectively does mean that I was not a moral actor at the time
Naw that’s cope. You make your choices, own them. Would you have stolen or murdered to avoid being homeless? Would that have been a morally blameless act?
Most people will steal to avoid being homeless.
Re: Not everyone is using AI for everything
#405On the post-grad job hunt right now - I note that most employers will ask in a technical interview or whiteboard interview "how are you using LLMs?" It's tough to answer because you want to hedge for both an AI enthused employer and an AI hesitant employer with limited information about who they are and how they personally use these products. I've been responding with a sort of long winded answer about how 'there is…
Replying as a hiring manager since this might help other post-grad job seekers: - Any long-winded answer to a question is immediate out and has been for years. - Not having used agents and not being able to comment on what to do and what not to do with them is immediate out since early this year.
Replying as a person who acted a hiring manager for decades: their loss.
Hiring for technical roles, I love long-winded answers as long as they are coherent. I don't want slogans, I want to understand how you reason through problems and that I can trust your judgment. Everything else is secondary.
Note that this doesn't mean "rambling". Get to the point. But if you want to show me nuance / reasoning, I want to hear it. Also a good way to spot bullshitters.
> Not having used agents and not being able to comment on what to do and what not to do with them is immediate out since early this year.
I've not observed that anywhere. It takes a couple of hours to figure out how to use agents. It might be a slight negative if I suspect you're not demonstrating enough curiosity about what's one of the most significant developments in tech in a long time, but the assumption is easily overcome if you geek out about something else.
Re: Not everyone is using AI for everything
#406Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just interviewed a guy and all three interviewers asked him functionally the same question. He hedged 3 times and we just wanted an honest answer...
The guy wanted a job, didn't know what answer you wanted for the job, and you guys were being assholes. If you can accept that then you've learnt something.
On the other side of this though, the third time the guy should have realized that hedging wasn't working and committed to the truth or a lie.
Re: Not everyone is using AI for everything
#407Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you already know what the inputs/outputs are, why should you spend days or weeks of your life typing it out rather than giving it in a well-specified and tested form to an LLM to get it done a hundred times faster?
This is a truth that many are having a hard time accepting. Getting shoved into the light so fast is blinding.
We understand what you’re claiming, we just think that you are wrong.
Re: Not everyone is using AI for everything
#408Earlier quoted context omitted.
What I'm telling you is that it isn't an issue of integrity, and that only makes sense from a false premise - that the strictest, most blunt response is what is truest, what is being asked for, or a reflection of your alignment with the organization's values. That's really not the case. If I asked you how you were doing would you tell me about the traumas you're currently processing? Would you feel like it was a viol…
Culture begins at the front door, corporate or personal. I would expect absolute sincerity from pilot or a doctor during the interview, including history of mental health and professional mistakes. Authority over lives of people must come with full transparency. If you are caught lying or misrepresenting your experience and skills, not only you would lose your job, you should be blacklisted from occupation as well. I…
Again, while I respect that that is your view of sincerity, I don't agree, and I'm not talking about lying, which is obviously inappropriate. Framing is not the same as lying (though taken to an extreme it becomes a lie of omission). There's also just a misunderstanding of what is being asked by questions like "what's your biggest weakness?" Language can be ambiguous, just because a very literal and extreme interpretation of a question exists doesn't mean that is what is being asked.
I don't think we're going to bridge this gap but I also don't think that's really necessary. People have different values and it is what it is.
Re: Not everyone is using AI for everything
#409Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just getting to the point of using a voice mode is a challenge at that level. Like, we're talking about "has trouble formulating a question to ask in the first place". There's a whole level of ignorance out there that is honestly dumbfounding to even comprehend. The numbers for numeracy and problem solving are even more horrifying. (It's for this reason that the most popular apps in the US are algorithmically generat…
I thought not needing words was because people often watch them on their phone in public without sound. Who are these people that can't enjoy listening to spoken words because of illiteracy or ignorance?
I mean... Tiktok's hallmark trend has always been people doing "TikTok dances", which involve audio, so...
But, besides that, TikTok became the titan it is today during the pandemic. When everyone was indoors (not outside).
Per Google's quick answer, when searching "When did TikTok get really popular?": "TikTok's global popularity surged in 2020 due to pandemic lockdowns, with consistent growth since 2016, surpassing competitors in downloads by 2018."
Re: Not everyone is using AI for everything
#410Earlier quoted context omitted.
That subreddit is likely an echo chamber. You would not judge what people think about politics by only reading comments on a Hasan Piker video (or only on a Nick Fuentes video).
Hasan Piker's political project polls extremely high (universal healthcare, abortion access, and more), so actually you could understand American voter politics by reading Hasan's comments amusingly enough.
He's also banned from the UK for being a terrorist, so make of that what you will.