It’s too easy to just blame AI, though, Farid said.
“Something is happening in the industry,” he said. “I think it’s a confluence of many things. I think AI is part of it. I think there’s a thinning of the ranks that’s happening, that’s part of it, but something is brewing.”
A problem is that this professor seems pragmatically isolated from the industry, so he has no idea what he’s talking about.
He has been pumping the industry full of people looking for high-paying jobs while often barely caring about technology at all.
The problem isn’t just AI, in my experience there has been a glut of mediocre workers in tech for decades now. I interviewed quite a few from this professor’s university. I can’t remember if it was a graduate from Stanford or Berkeley who spent the entire interview on his phone.
I’d wager that investment in AI is holding the rest of the sector down. AI is getting 100s of billions, most of it getting burned on compute, because everyone expects/hopes AI is going to be successful. Meanwhile, companies need to hire experienced devs at enormous expense to clean up the vibe coded slop.
Somebody was stuck under a very large rock…
They briefly cover that in the article.
A problem is that this professor seems pragmatically isolated from the industry, so he has no idea what he’s talking about.
He has been pumping the industry full of people looking for high-paying jobs while often barely caring about technology at all.
The problem isn’t just AI, in my experience there has been a glut of mediocre workers in tech for decades now. I interviewed quite a few from this professor’s university. I can’t remember if it was a graduate from Stanford or Berkeley who spent the entire interview on his phone.
I don’t get the impression this is a conclusion he just came to, he’s just being interviewed about it.
Yup and I wonder. Is AI creating the slowdown or is investment in AI keeping it from being even worse?
I’d wager that investment in AI is holding the rest of the sector down. AI is getting 100s of billions, most of it getting burned on compute, because everyone expects/hopes AI is going to be successful. Meanwhile, companies need to hire experienced devs at enormous expense to clean up the vibe coded slop.
Like half of IT companies are holding back to hire more staff they usually would because they are still unsure how much work AI will save them.
New light novel just dropped “I Filtered Politics to /dev/null And Accidentally Missed The Rise of the Fourth Reich, Now I Wander The Wasteland”