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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago

So we'd go back to indentured servitude?

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I think Jenny K should do this.

Her essay is almost unreadable. Please tell me how you think a recent college grad, probably with school loans, is supposed to pay for their own "on the job training"? I'd love to see your magical economics at work.

[–] I_Jedi@lemmy.today 1 points 4 hours ago

Through behind closed doors activities that can't be reported officially, I imagine. Warm bodies can be used for all sorts of underhanded things.

[–] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 18 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Excuse me, haven’t we already seen tech companies going back to using junior programmers and boilerplate code because the LLM tokens are more expensive than just hiring people?

[–] ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip 4 points 7 hours ago

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.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] boobookittyfrick@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

So I’m not gonna lie this kind of makes sense… If you don’t consider where the money comes from in the first place…

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] boobookittyfrick@lemmy.zip 4 points 8 hours ago

…that you had to pay to get lol

[–] godsammitdam@lemmy.zip 9 points 10 hours ago
[–] Widdershins@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago

There is something rotten about that writing. I can't read the drivel more than a paragraph at a time. It is like every sentence should have it's own paragraph and the missing sentences have left the flow of thought all fucked up. I have spent plenty of time around cokeheads and such and their train of thought takes the scenic route compared to this crazy train.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 hours ago

Good luck finding the future mid-level class of your company when all the lower rungs are filled with AI. Who you going to promote? AI Albert?

[–] FluorideMind@lemmy.world 13 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

And how will these promising new "HOTL" have money to pay for entry level jobs without having entry level jobs?

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

And why use "HOTL" meaning "human in the loop"? What's wrong with HITL?

[–] Boost@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Probably to differentiate it from hardware in the loop, which is what HITL typically refers to. That or she's just not very good at this. Probably the second one.

[–] impairedimperator@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 hours ago

I definitely read that as "humans out of the loop"

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 hours ago

Lol Jenny thinks she's smarter than her average fresh hire lmao even

[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago (4 children)
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[–] IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No evidence, just mindless opinions based on nothing.

Here's my take: In the future, Tomatoes will become sentient from genetic engineering and will wish to overthrow their masters. Only gen z, alpha and AI will be able to stop this....Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. I'm smart and realistic.

[–] Technotica@lemmy.world 14 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Amongst all the rest of this idiocy: HOTL (Humans IN the Loop)

[–] foresterr@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Maybe whatever slopbot wot slopped this got cold feet with the acronym.

"So how we will train the future, er, HITLs?..."

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 22 points 1 day ago

She'll be looking for sympathy after the a.i. bubble bursts and she's bankrupt.

[–] Ibuthyr@feddit.org 37 points 1 day ago

What a fucking bunch of drivel. Without students and fresh grads our company would have been bankrupt a long time ago. They are the ones who bring a fresh perspective to the company (we engineer machines for the beverage industry) because they haven't been pushed into a specialist position yet, that breaks any kind of creativity. They are the people that spark a lot of our innovations. If we lose that, the company won't survive for long. AI can't do that because AI isn't fucking creative. Fuck AI and fuck this dumb piece of shit for their dumb fucking take on this.

Sorry for the incoherent swearing, I'm drunk.

Love you all, have a great day!

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago

Hungary already has internships with "reverse salaries", thanks to corruption and mandatory internships, though many instead moved onto the "pay us back the salary and your training cost if you dare to not work for us for two years after graduation, for peanuts" model.

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Jenny, you would be beaten to death in front your entire family for pushing this in any sane world.

The response to suggesting such insanely inhumane and immoral shit as enslaving the entire population of the planet to the almighty dollar should be OVERWHELMING FORCE immediately.

[–] tigermountain@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Oh man I hate her.

[–] svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People will never be free until the last CEO is strangled with the entrails of the last linkedin lunatic.

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[–] carrylex@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago
[–] spacegoat@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago

Too dumb to live

[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 49 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There is NO legitimate reason to endure the fresh graduate.

So many incredibly entitled people have never felt the obligation to give to others that which was given to them. These people should be shunned by civil society.

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 107 points 1 day ago (11 children)

“Cooper AI Co-founder & CEO”

Why would you expect her take to be anything but brain-dead?

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[–] Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Hey jackass, how are they supposed to pay you if they dont have a job?

[–] Piafraus@lemmy.world 0 points 8 hours ago

The answer is kind of hinted.

How do you pay for education if you don't have a job right now? Universities don't pay their students, don't they?

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 hours ago

She's running an AI startup to service insurance companies, she's like 3-4 levels removed. Probably a strong case for conservative government grants except she's a womand and a minority

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