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This has been the state of things long before LLMs, and companies still hired and trained up juniors, only to see them leave after 18 months. But that's fine.
by kelnos 1y ago
This has been the state of things long before LLMs, and companies still hired and trained up juniors, only to see them leave after 18 months.
But that's fine. The junior you trained up will be more effective at their next job, and the junior your competitor trained up will be more effective when you hire them at your company. Again, that's how it's been for far longer than we've had LLMs.
- program_whiz 1y agoThe only problem with this utopian view of the world is the game theory. My company which doesn't hire juniors gets to benefit from others training them up for free. As a result, companies will opt not to train them (since this is optimal) -- which means they don't get trained. Classic prisoner's dilemma / free rider situation.