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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.

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At least today, I expect this will fail horribly. The challenge today isn't AI literacy in my experience, its domain knowledge required to keep LLMs on the rails.

People literate in AI, but inexperienced in all other facts. What could go wrong!

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> People literate in AI, but inexperienced in all other facts. What could go wrong!

It sounds like it's appeal to MBAs, who are people literate in management, but inexperienced in all other areas.

Sounds like the first step of a galactic scale fuck up

It is IBM after all

Totally fair point.

dotcom implosion redux

It certainly feels that way. I was there. Fortunately had just waltzed into the tech side of things and scurried off back to my professional career for a couple of years.

I watched a lot of stuff burn. It was horrifying. We are nearly there again.

Yeah similar story here. I had to spend a couple of years painting houses before the local market recovered enough that tech jobs were a thing again. Shit was surreal. There was one guy I knew that went from building multi-million dollar server and networking projects for IBM to literally working as unskilled labor on a fencing crew just to make rent.

Problem is there aren't jobs where you can go and hide until the economy recovers this time.

For a time, there was a lot of good deals on nice used office furniture.

Yeah got a nice desk and a trinitron out of it. Covid got me an Aeron :)

"Galactic scale" and "Fuck Up" are on brand for IBM.

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?

There are actually books which recommend that organizations track employee tokens burned as a proxy for AI adoption. Surprised me a bit.

it's the only KPI available.

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

Unpatchable xp glitch

25 years of LLM experience for a mid-level

"AI is going to wipe out junior developers!"

They actually hire more junior developers

"Uhh .. to adopt AI better they're hiring more junior developers!"

This cope is especially low quality with the context that this is just another purge of older workers at IBM.

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