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Yeah it tells you nothing of value. It's the Recency Bias taken to its ultimate conclusion isn't it. Anything I learned about AI I learned in the last few months but somehow that's as important as all the experience of my decades long software career? Come on.

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It signals you don't have enough time or will to chase the latest stuff, otherwise you would have learned it with other cool kids half a year earlier. It carries some signal, but I would not choose based on this alone. I would even consider selecting against this to a certain point, but I also work in a place that COBOL on a mainframe. YMMV.

> I would even consider selecting against this to a certain point

I agree. A technology professional who views themselves as "one of the cool kids" (read: easily manipulated by social media) is a legitimate security threat, as are many of the popularly promoted approaches to "LLM-assisted software developement".

I haven't considered looking at it from the security thread angle. Can you expand on this?

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