Whoooooops!

That is, people unlike Oprah Winfrey

Is the 2025 one just a flood of nazi propaganda?

It’ll be racist for sure I know that

That’ll probably be BC or Quebec

I think the difference is that you couldn’t ride a calculator to get a bachelor’s degree in a “stem” field, and I think you can now.

There are more useless cs grads than ever.

Yes I learned how to be a professional on the job. But I had taken on hard problems that I didn’t know how to solve at first and figured them out myself, just as part of being a lonely nerd.

If you ask gpt to figure everything out for you (which I believe is currently possible in a typical undergrad program), you won’t even have that baseline of having learned to unstick yourself, which is the foundation.

Even in a functioning software shop with mentorship, training, etc, some people just have an extra get-hard-shit-done level.

I think two things are going on:

• new graduates GPTd their way through college and didn’t actually learn anything
• the exceptional ones can see they’re exceptional and go get one of the monster overpay jobs in AI

Busywork fills time and can feel productive. I found it a constant temptation as an eng and pm.

I could spend a couple of hours thinking hard about an actual problem that needs solving, orrrrrr I could fuck around with the bug database doing stuff that gets counted by my boss…

And bosses need to be on alert that they aren’t giving out busywork and feeling good that their employees aren’t staring into space/doodling/chatting any more (which is often what thinking looks like).

The whole LLM thing needs to be studied for all of the cognitive dark patterns they are exploiting. It’s like a grift encyclopedia.

That building’s wall is beveling kinda comcerningly.