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IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption

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Re: IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption

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I hope they have a good 10 years experience in that "literacy".

I just run sub agents in parallel. Yesterday I used Codex for the first time yesterday. I spun up 350,640 agents and got 10 years of experience in 15 minutes.

New metric: agent-hours spent on a task. Or so we measure in tokens. Clearly more tokens burned == more experience right?

Re: IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption

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post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope they have a good 10 years experience in that "literacy".

I just run sub agents in parallel. Yesterday I used Codex for the first time yesterday. I spun up 350,640 agents and got 10 years of experience in 15 minutes.

You should also mention how many millions lines of code you* created.

Re: IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption

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The title is a bit misleading. Reading the article, the argument seems to be that entry-level applicants (are expected to) have the highest AI literacy, so they want them to drive AI adoption.

Sounds like the first step of a galactic scale fuck up

It is IBM after all

Re: IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption

#56

They hire juniors, give them Claude Code and some specs and save a mid/senior devs salary. I believe coding is over for SWE's by end of 2027, but will take time to diffuse though the economy hence still need some cheap labour for a few years, given the H1-B ban this is one way without offshoring.

If you had a truly thorough QA department, you might get away with that. Sadly, trashing QA is everyone’s second favorite new fad.

Re: IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption

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post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope they have a good 10 years experience in that "literacy".

I just run sub agents in parallel. Yesterday I used Codex for the first time yesterday. I spun up 350,640 agents and got 10 years of experience in 15 minutes.

Unpatchable xp glitch

Re: IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption

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post #50
post #34

The title is a bit misleading. Reading the article, the argument seems to be that entry-level applicants (are expected to) have the highest AI literacy, so they want them to drive AI adoption.

Sounds like the first step of a galactic scale fuck up

dotcom implosion redux

Re: IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption

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We're assuming we all somehow have perfect customers with technical knowledge who know exactly what they want and can express it as such, while gracefully accepting pushback over constraints brought up. Anyone who's worked in a "bikeshed sensitive" stack of programming knows how quickly things railroad off when such customers get direct access to an engineer. Think being a fullstack dev but you constantly get request…

Dealing with the occasional pushy customers is way easier than dealing with pushy PMs or designers. Which happen to be the majority. Customers bikeshed WAY less than those two categories.

I'm glad you dealt with some good customers. I can't agree in my experience, though.
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