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by dabinat 1 hour ago
It surprises me how many people have voluntarily relegated their entire job to LLM Prompter. If your work is indistinguishable from that of a machine, what’s to stop your boss cutting out the middleman and using the machine directly? I would have thought that people would be trying their hardest to prove their worth in this new world we’re in.
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emodendroket 20 minutes ago
Well, if everyone is telling you they want you to adapt AI, then it's rational to see just how much of your job you can get it to do for you.
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moomoo11 1 hour ago
having worked in tech and now running my own company..

the honest truth is that maybe 10-20% of SWE (at best) are “good”. sure it is harsh but i won't lie. if you're good you'll probably relate.

the rest kind of suck.

i’ve never gotten anything lower than Exceeds Expectations in my career so I’ve seen how awful some engineers were. i’ve seen how amazing a tiny minority were and i made them my mentors.

these days i have a simple policy.

if they cannot think, they are fired. why waste resources (time and money) on someone who can’t use their brain? i’d rather give AI credits to someone who uses their brain.

thinking is the humans job. the ai needs to execute on what the human thought of, improved, planned.

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satvikpendem 8 minutes ago
It's the Pareto principle of course, as well as the normal distribution. Many firms have been able to succeed in the market just by hiring only good engineers over average ones.
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moomoo11 5 minutes ago
yeah but these days it is even more important to filter out bads

and even at "good" companies you have people who can game the system to get in, and then they struggle to get anything done on time or be responsible for taking on and completing any initiatives bigger than a single task on a bigger scope.

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satvikpendem 3 minutes ago
Indeed. You really need to find people who don't want to play politics and instead get stuff done. I'm still not sure how to hire for these sorts of people in the age of AI, where people even cheat in interviews. Maybe probation programs? Have multiple people work for a month or two and cut those who don't succeed.
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