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Many people with no skills are taking advantage of the LLM craze to artificially inflate their own value. I see it every day on LinkedIn. People that previousl
by elmer2 2mo ago
Many people with no skills are taking advantage of the LLM craze to artificially inflate their own value. I see it every day on LinkedIn.
People that previously have barely any experience in tech, now being hired in AI startups because they are good bullshitters.
- prh8 2mo agoCountless directors and managers are now cosplaying as engineers. I've seen so many myself and that's just my tiny slice of this engineering world
- 1-6 2mo agoEngineers cosplay as physicists and mathematicians every day. What's your point? Think of it pragmatically. If they can do the job they can do the role.
- ruszki 2mo ago> If they can do the job they can do the role. Obviously. Can they do the job? Because right now, government decisions are based on AI generated code, which was verified by nobody who can do that. So the cost of an unsatisfactory answer is quite high.
- Blackthorn 2mo agoIt is pretty funny to see the shoe on the other foot, since it's usually software engineers with unearned arrogance about other fields.
- ryan_n 2mo agoWhat fields do you see devs think they know about? I’ve never personally seen this with other devs I work with but obviously small sample size…
- mathisfun123 2mo agofind any econ related post on hn et voila
- luke5441 2mo agoI don't think it is much of a problem that dabblers get into Internet arguments about things they are not experts in. After all the easiest way to get a correct answer/learn something is to say something wrong. Of course this should be differentiated from a professional setting. And under no circumstances should we put that stuff into the knowledge bases we base our "AI" on without making sure it takes into account the context.
- hparadiz 2mo agoThere have always been people with no tech experience building startups generating spaghetti code. It's just that now it looks a lot more polished.
- Jensson 2mo ago> It's just that now it looks a lot more polished. Yes, and that is the problem. It used to be if a product looked polished it was fairly polished engineering wise as well if we compare to todays AI slop. You can see that on steam, before AI slop games a game that looked polished mostly worked. But today you can get a game that looks like they put in a lot of effort, but its all AI slop and everything is flaky and broken, I've had way more such experiences the last few months than before that. A human coder that was capable of coding a complex game typically also was good enough and tested things to make most things work. There were bugs etc, but at least buttons did things.
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- afavour 2mo agoIn my experience, product. There’s a pervasive view that product is easy, that anyone working in it is a dunderhead who gets in the way of engineers doing the really worthwhile work. In reality, it would just mean they rewrite the software five times and have zero customers. Oh, design too. I’ve met many engineers who simply don’t see any value in design.
- Reptur 2mo agoThis isn't new due to AI, just amplified.
- eli 2mo agoTo be fair, "people with no skills inflating their own value" is what LinkedIn has always been like. But I guess LLMs are uniquely well positioned for that task.
- skeeter2020 2mo agoPeople who live and create on LinkedIn? absolutely. For a huge group of people LI was just the most popular job board, though.
- icedchai 2mo agoLLMs have brought it to a new level. I have multiple people in my feed posting several page dissertations on a daily basis. More often than not, these posts are about the benefits of AI...
- Joe_Cool 2mo agoI heard the term "Sloperator" a few times. Quite fitting...
- glitchcrab 2mo agoThanks!That's definitely getting added to my vocabulary.
- e12e 2mo ago> People that previously have barely any experience in tech, now being hired in AI startups because they are good bullshitters. I like the symmetry of people being unable to detect "skill" in people who are great at manipulating language and in LLMs who are also great at manipulating language.
- abustamam 2mo agoI mean most startups and every billion dollar company are worth a lot because they are good bullshitters, in a way its kinda refreshing to see more people able to bullshit their way up a different ladder, even if it is a bit scary.