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Dumb question. If they’re willing to pay so much for AI talent. Why won’t companies hire experienced software engineers willing to learn AI on the job? Seems l
by bilsbie 1y ago
Dumb question. If they’re willing to pay so much for AI talent. Why won’t companies hire experienced software engineers willing to learn AI on the job? Seems like there should be a big market for that.
- JKCalhoun 1y agoPerhaps it takes too long. The talent they do have would have to split their duties in order to train the incoming engineers.... Just a guess.
- bluGill 1y agoDon't those have phd's? They are the smartest with background that would take a while to learn. you are on the right, but only for companies investing for the long term
- bravesoul2 1y agoI think there isn't a shortage but it let's you get the best now. The very best. Born genius plus didn't cruise, worked hard too, kind of best.
- onlyrealcuzzo 1y agoMeta just wants to have a story for its stock price to go up. It is definitely worth spending a couple hundred million to make your stock price go up tens of billions for several months. Presumably not all of that hundreds of millions in investment will be waste, too. Meta knows they have close to a 0% chance of overtaking ChatGPT or Gemini.
- runeblaze 1y agothere kind of is, but also note we are talking about the exceptional talent here. I don’t think Meta is mass poaching the pure engineer types at OpenAI either
- roguecoder 1y agoThey are: https://openai.com/residency/ https://openai.com/residency/ However, skilling people up on specialized skill sets in a reasonable time frame requires having people around to teach them. And those people need to know not just the skills, but how to teach them well. And it takes time away from those people doing the job, so that approach will slow development in the short run. But the companies are trying.