Add co-workers to this list, because we're the ones that have to retrain them when they inevitably fail.

As a Gen-Xer in the workforce since the 90s, this is the first era in which the new talent coming in has a lower level of technical savvy and critical thinking skills than the previous one. And it's not just a knowledge gap - it's an ambition gap. In a lot of cases, Boomers are easier to work with than Gen Z, because for all their idiocy, they have the ambition to dig for the answer and work shit out eventually.

Gen Z just kinda seems to gives up once the easy answers aren't available.

Unrelated question - We got X. The kids got Z. Why aren't we calling Millennials Generation Y?

As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are coming to the office with alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through the list of humanities grads instead.

“We want critical thinking, not just AI,” the financier told the FT.

Reap what your c-suite sowed, d-bags.

we hired one of these a few months ago.

poor guy graduated last may and he was willing to accept our shit pay; so must have been desperate.

i used to think that people were being elitist when they decried vibe coding, but having to review his PR's and see the contributions from his peers at our sister organizations have made me realize how of a much of a thing it truly is! lol

my boss wants to squeeze out as much work out of him as he possibly can before it inevitably leaves for better pay, but i suspect the return might not be all that much worth it. lmao

"womp womp"

My team interviewed what I can only assume was one of these candidates about a month ago. Every single person on the interview panel, including myself, was floored at how absolutely inept the candidate was. It was so bad, and the candidate realized it was so bad, that they threw in the towel halfway through the system design portion of the interview - and that’s with us dumbing down the questions successively just to try to give the candidate a little bit of traction.

The really damning part we realized in the postmortem/debrief was that the candidate had answered some PSQL questions quite adeptly on the phone, but when asked very similar questions in person, they were completely unprepared… which made us conclude they must have had an LLM listening to the audio stream of the interview during the phone screen portion and just throwing out answers for the candidate to use. Yeah, I get that interviewing is stressful and can knock you off your game, but this was genuine an order of magnitude worse than anything I’ve ever seen before in that ballpark.

My faith in US Higher Education standards was pretty low right before the LLM nonsense hit, but wow was it shattered after that.

Bosses are like "wow they can create a report in 2 minutes." Bosses impressed because they use AI too but it takes them longer.

When I was younger and argued that degrees were dumb because they weren’t training me for actual work, it was explained to me that the degree served as a filter for people who had some basic skills but ultimately had demonstrated problem solving, information processing, and critical thinking skills. Guess that’s over now (it’s still a blocker if one doesn’t have a degree despite 20 years experience)

School is what you make of it, but how can the employer filter out the people who cheated with AI?

Since when are bosses interested in college graduates? People with years of experience are regularly turned away as the bosses look for the equivalent of a senior seasoned employee wiling to work for peanuts.

ah yes, a trustworthy source of information. futurism...

Only a shockingly small fraction of students are there to learn. It is sadly more about certification and the social experience. Nothing new in this.

Ironically kind of perfect for mangement.