[Verdex]

Certifications have always been irrelevant for me, but that's only because my goal has always been what I'm capable of doing on my own AND (this one is a biggie) I was unbelievably fortunate to have several people in my career who trusted that I could get the job done.

Certifications are about low trust. With the advent of modern LLM tech, trust levels are probably not going up.

Nobody needs to hire someone who can use an LLM because if that is the skill they're looking for they can just use the LLM themselves.

So if you need to hire someone because the LLM isn't cutting it, then you'll by definition need to be hiring someone who isn't using an LLM. Someone who isn't just using an LLM to make you think that they aren't using an LLM.

How is that going to be done? Sounds like a job for certifications to me. Not today's certifications, but a much more in depth, in person, and gatekeepery certification.

My guess would be that certifications, unfortunately, will be significantly more relevant in the days of LLMs. Not less.

[gadflyinyoureye]

Isn't that what the CPA and Bar exams, to use US analogs, do? They are an in-depth test or sets of tests that prove a person has a useful set of knowledge in a given domain.