She's wrong about the advantages of AI, but she's right about how companies are going to see it. It's true that they'd rather deal with AI than an intern, and it's true then that internships will fall onto the universities to coordinate like rotations as part of an expensive education system.

It's also true that kids are learning how to use AI on their own, and are losing their ability to learn from any datapoints, because why do that if the magic box will give you an answer that sounds correct enough? Ultimately, it doesn't matter how useless AI is if everyone acts as if it's as useful as this lady thinks it is.

I'm told that agents these days keep a scratchpad of notes to themselves, so an agent can (kind of) learn about things by making a note about it which it will still have access to later, even outside the formal context window.

It's going to be far more limited than the kind of training you're talking about, but it is something which an individual agent can do

Most harnesses that people use to interact with llms have memory and skills.

You can "teach" them a skill which is sort of like a macro so you can say "deploy to dev" and it'll look up that skill and execute it without any extra input needed.

For memory it'll keep files on your local of what it's seen before and can pull from the information in those files if necessary. So if you always ask it to label reports in a certain directory "Midwest expansion project" the harness will add that to its memory files and start to label it automatically.

Well, no. Models are not "self-learning". This is unrelated to size of the corpus. In fact, it was proven times and times again, that poisoning a model is not a costly proces.

Exactly.

Im pretty sure graduates aren't beating down her door for the opportunity to work for her.

Sniffing her own farts too much.

I'm pretty underwhelmed before even clicking...

This will happen. In the UK the government tried to bring back slavery in the early 2010s. Unemployed people were told that they had to work for large corporations just to keep getting their unemployment benefits. It came to about £1.50/hour or so when minimum wage was significantly higher than that.

Corporations got free labour out of it, tax payers paid the unemployment benefits for the benefit slaves. They often said you may get a full time job at the end of it. You won't, they will find someone else who is unpaid.

Oh yeah, and some of those unemployed people used to work there but lost their jobs to unemployed people and then had to join them.

To be honest, I always think these kind of internship are just bribery with extra steps lol

Done.

PS, we are now also making sure you clock in and out on the dot and tracking your keyboard presses per minute for productivity and reserve the right to use any of these things to terminate you for being a "bad" employee.

In a lot of the asian world, internship aren't paid, some you have to pay for it. I guess Jenny is from one of these country.

So 2 seconds after youre done paying is okay then?

Hey now, they added some value like a few lines of prompt to the claude api call.

"Generate insights" had me rolling my eyes. If she thinks that's what they're doing, she deserves everything that's coming to her.

No need to do that for this. They can easily use an open model for this work.

And prompting is like script kiddie shit. That’s the go to when people don’t understand how to train these models.

It's ok, she made a mistake in the post so it's all human written. Everything Gaddam thing is just telling us how human she is.

The problem though is that AI reduces the number of places to work at which will increase the competition between applicants. If some employers start doing this there will be applicants that will pay to get ahead. How big of an issue this becomes depends on how big of a competition AI will place on job seekers.

They used to, until many realized that there's no reason to train fresh grads if you can just poach then from another company after they've been trained for a while and if you train your own, they will get poached similarly by someone who wants to skip the training. They've been treating it as a zero sum game.

Increasingly few companies will hire fresh grads now. Naturally, that causes a shortage in people with experience. Not to worry, they're now complaining about the lack of potential employees with experience and demanding the government to invest money in advertising our country to third world devs and to let them hire foreigners more easily instead of having to look for people here first. So now part of my tax money goes to an initiative to make sure companies can keep not training young devs.

This had been brewing for years now and I'm disgusted.

then businesses decide to save money, by not hiring fresh grads, and expecting years of experience up front.

And they absolutely do forget things you say. It doesn't even take that much context.

My LinkedIn feed is overflowing with executives unabashedly posting their navel-gazing chats with bots.

"What would you look like?" "What is it like to be you?"

They're just so excited to finally have a friend at work, I think.

proud of their acquired brain injuries

This here is hurting more than it may look at first sight when you have children who fall into that category. Ask teachers, they know that kind, and they fear for that kind.

puh-leese!

God these people are really not paying attention to ANYTHING 😂

Great reference!

Considering the amount of ADULTS who think the internet is just youtube, tiktok, instagram, xitter, CS and whatsapp, yes, we need to teach them how to fucking use the internet. :/

Just like there is no crying in the casino, there is no logic or empathy in the mental illness epidemic of fascism.

That's why taxpayers are paying for massive data centres that poison their neighbourhoods.

More data centres means token become cheaper and more jobs get replaced.

Tax payers literally paying to reduce the number of jobs for their children to work in the future.

haven’t we already seen tech companies going back to using juniors

Not really no. There might've been few outliers.

Companies are trying to spend their money more efficiently right now (as in, "make the genie work peasants, but for pennies").

Source: ehh, I still work for one.

Freudian slip. Wanted to say Human out of loop.

Yeah this is the only part I noticed and cared about. God their brain is not working.

This. I was required to find a job in the industry over the summer or I was not invited back to college the next year. If you couldn't find a job/ internship/ or summerstock the faculty would help you find something or, if you were the right person just give you a job because the entire staff was also required to work professionally.

depends on the university, some schools might not have those programs you described. like with some state unis.