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Why does the article suddenly start talking about power grids before jumping back to its topic like nothing happened? > If you spent years and tens of thousand
by marginalia_nu 9mo ago
Why does the article suddenly start talking about power grids before jumping back to its topic like nothing happened?
> If you spent years and tens of thousands of dollars earning a degree, companies' hiring people without that credential might feel frustrating. The change could leave graduates wondering if their time and money were well-spent.
> AI's popularity also creates environmental pressures. Training and running AI systems requires tons of electricity and water for cooling data centers. As AI becomes more embedded in hiring, operations, and daily business functions, energy consumption grows.
> This can strain power grids, increase costs for consumers, and contribute to pollution if the electricity comes from sources such as gas or coal. AI may help optimize some clean energy systems, but its resource demands present trade-offs.
> What's being done about changing hiring practices?
The business community is recognizing that degree requirements often screen out talented people unnecessarily.
- GoldenMonkey 9mo agoAI generated content?
- jeron 9mo agoneed to add "make sure article flows cohesively and doesn't jump around topics" to the system prompt
- 01-_- 9mo agoOn Yahoo!!!?? I don't think so.
- RankingMember 9mo agoHaha, I don't even know why Yahoo exists these days- my only interaction with them is occasionally getting linked AI-generated crap like this.
- spullara 9mo agoyou don't use yahoo finance???
- RankingMember 9mo agoYou're right, that is one thing they do well.
- Loughla 9mo agoI really wish they hadn't shut down Yahoo answers. Some of that was unhinged and amazing. I do miss when people argued whether Yahoo or ask Jeeves was better. Those were good times.
- RankingMember 9mo agoSo many classics, and of course it birthed the "How is babby formed" meme. Guess it got too hard to justify the use of resources when the rest of the platform was basically in flames though.
- burkaman 9mo agoIt's not written by Yahoo, it's a syndicated post from https://www.thecooldown.com/ https://www.thecooldown.com/.
- andrewflnr 9mo agoOr possibly just written at an AI level of self-awareness. The irony of an AI written article injecting AI alarmism so hamfistedly would be quite something... but not impossible I guess.
- perihelions 9mo agoIf you zoom out and look at the big picture, the whole article is little more than a summarization of a different article, published in Fortune. https://fortune.com/2026/01/12/google-founder-sergey-brin-hiring-without-degrees-computer-skills-based-economy-stanford-computer-science/ https://fortune.com/2026/01/12/google-founder-sergey-brin-hi... ( https://archive.is/fefa9 https://archive.is/fefa9 ) If it is AI, this is the easiest type of AI content to generate: a summary of a small, delimited text corpus, with some generic filler added. If it isn't AI, it's still nevertheless low-effort and (IMHO) doesn't belong on HN. The primary journalistic source (Fortune) should replace it. Look at this before/after comparison, how lazily they (or it) paraphrased the source material: > [Primary] "Between 2017 and 2022, the share of job postings at Google requiring a degree dropped from 93% to 77%, according to analysis from the Burning Glass Institute." > [Derivative] "Data from the Burning Glass Institute shows that in 2017, degree requirements were part of 93% of job postings at Google. By 2022, that figure had dropped to 77%." Or this: > [Primary] "And Google isn’t alone: companies including Microsoft, Apple, and Cisco have reduced degree requirements in recent years, signaling a broader industry shift toward skills-based hiring." > [Derivative] "Other large tech companies have also begun judging candidates by their abilities instead of their diplomas. Microsoft, Apple, and Cisco are among those dropping degree mandates."
- andrewflnr 9mo agoThey key context is the sentence just before your quote. I guess they think it's a downstream reason that lack of degree requirements is concerning, since it might result in more AI usage. Which, yeah, is quite a reach and maybe genuinely insane.
- marginalia_nu 9mo agoOh, I got a huge ad between those so it really did not connect. Still pretty weird, but not completely detached at least.
- 9x39 9mo agoThe article's bent was that it's the un-pedigreed using AI to allow them to compete with formally trained grads, and not, you know, the Mk1 unit everyone shipped with. >artificial intelligence tools got better at performing tasks that once required formal training.
- Nevermark 9mo agoMeanwhile, grads that haven't adopted AI are hitting an unfortunate temporal hollow space between what was and what is.