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How is this not just another perennial grump about Kidz These Days?

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@rysiek This isn't totally new. Mumblemumble decades ago, a friend of mine in SF, who headed up the local office of international tech firm told me he'd rather hire humanities/artists than those who only trained to coder because you can teach a creative to code, but not the other way around necessarily. That's why this new focus on AI for coding - maybe the grunt work - but then how do people learn - has me rolling my eyes. It takes intelligence and creativity to build things. Not AI vibes.

@rysiek I don't think it's AI.

If you ask these kids what they want to be when they grow up, they don't say doctor or teacher or fireman. They say "I want to be rich". Money was always a means to an end, but now it's an end in itself. These kids have grown up in a world where the people who should be in jail are raping their classmates, because they are rich, because they are powerful. The people they admire and respect are barely scraping by. The mask slipped during covid and now they know the only escape from the capital monster is to be the capital monster.

These kids aren't AI pilled. They're CEO pilled. That's why they're dumb.

@rysiek Please folks, don't put this on us the job seekers. The company DO crave the "AI literate" and critical thinking is likely to get you passed over for a job. The only way to get the job is to be dishonest and tell the employer everything they want to hear, right ? Come with the right keywords, the right schools, they right certifications or whatever. Lie, and don't go try anything that might pass over the head of the recruiter or the AI that is the first thing to check your resumé. And then they get surprised when they find what they went lookng for. If there's a graduate that's not what they article describe, he wouldn't have gotten hired to begin with.

@rysiek 4+ years of job hunting shows that bosses, in fact, reject the concept of critical thinking as a general skill.

And oh boy do I have things to say about the depth of ideas coming out of long-established C suites 😬

@rysiek It is so incredibly depressing to think that there are however many thousands or myriads of colleges and universities in the United States, and let's throw in high schools as well because the hi-power high schools posture themselves as basically the onramp into higher #education, have gone all-in on this "AI literacy" nonsense. Can we please take the concept of literacy away from the techlords now? Please?

@rysiek when the plagiarism machines started doing well on some standardized tests we could have taken it as a sign that this way of teaching and grading is broken, instead it was used to fuel the bubble. Oh, well, at least they are creating some amazing value for shareholders.

@rysiek I am even more shocked. Who could have known, possibly.

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The reason the techbros were pushing social media addiction and ai slop is because they want to infantilize the fucking masses. They do this because then they can feel superior.

Only what they're doing is destroying society as a whole, and soon the techbros will be facing a massive mob of violent people and none of their technology will work.

@rysiek but they want us to use AI and agents to code to keep our jobs?

@rysiek @briankrebs I have a BA in English, yet do DFIR and my incident reports are better for it. I always have a narrative with a protagonist and rising action, unfortunately there’s not always a satisfying resolution…

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haha they know Jack Shit

@rysiek As if "humanities" students were immune against using AI instead of thinking by themselves...

@rysiek FFS... is about all you can say to that!

@rysiek I homeschooled my youngest pretty much the whole way through*. They laugh at people who use AI. They are also extremely critical, analytical thinkers who are allergic to bs.

I want to pat myself on the back and say it's because I did something right, but I suspect that it's more because they didn't have something *wrong* done to them.

*Yes, we taught them evolution, the Big Bang, and math.