Negative trends 4 and 5 are not, contra the article, AI-specific; AI just happens to be the intellectual problem of the moment. The team I was on waaaay back i

Negative trends 4 and 5 are not, contra the article, AI-specific; AI just happens to be the intellectual problem of the moment. The team I was on waaaay back in the prehistory of the web era was warned against hiring too many PhDs. We disregarded the advice. (These were smart guys, yo! They had PhDs!) We spent a couple of years tackling interesting problems instead of relevant problems, and just about entirely missed out on the first web bubble as a result. I love smart academic people. I love those big brains. I'll never hire one ever again. Give me someone who's more interested in working around a problem than in studying it, and we'll get things done. Give me a PhD and we'll have a nice paper about it about 5 years after anyone other than their thesis advisor cares.