I'm kind of on the fence with this one. As someone who does programming at work,I don't want to be partially replaced by a prompt, however there are also lots of sectors, where the problems are big and solving them could help a lot of people but money is an issue,so being able to access resources on a scale of large tech companies would be amazing.
So I recently finished a job, where I had to create a custom POST endpoint on Salesforce,so it'd take a simple JSON payload, apply some logic and save to the database. The job itself was a few hours with tests,etc. Well guess what, almost 100 emails and two months later,the project is still not finished, because of the simple middleware that was supposed to send the JSON to my endpoint and is as basic as my endpoint. ChatGPT can write the code, but all the BS inbetween will need humans to deal with.
People don't think 'I should do that'. Instead, they think 'I haven't got a clue hot to better off myself, I'm stuck'. Then comes along an easy course and obviously they think they'll get unstuck by purchasing it.
Thanks for your comments. I've been pirating one way or another for a couple of decades. Always always saw the crackers as someone who did it for anything but money.
I offered people working in a call centre environment to learn crm administration: gradually, with all the support they may need, etc. We would have transitioned them into new roles once they gained some knowledge. The pay in new roles would have been higher than they'd ever get in the call centre environment.
There are lots of things people can learn in a relatively short period of time that would benefit them. It may not be financial reward at first, but being able to draw the necessary insights, do things faster and more efficient are beneficial the many.
1) Managers often don't know what skills people lack or how to take them a few steps up using new skills. Usually these are not the core skills people need to do the job. For instance, an accountant could do a decent job, yet only have basic knowledge of excel. The accountant's manager, depending on the complexity and the psce of the company,may or may not be aware of it. Everyone's happy the way it is. However, if the accountant knew Excel better, some tasks would take only half the time, whilst others could be automated and so. This is extremely common in a lot of companies
2) People don't want to upskill. Yes, I'm aware it's a blanket statement, however both as a manager and simply as a colleague, I found this to be the case. Very few,even if they are aware of the problem( e..g. skill shortage) try to address them. I can't count the number of times I told people to at least try to learn x, because their job would become much easier and they'd get more money. Nope, not interested..
Also, actively offering people time and access to learning resources don't seem to help much either.
I'm currently in some surreal world because of a large government contract our company had won. Multiple companies are involved. Lack of any meaningful systems, people who have no technical understanding about anything making decisions, data requests have timelines as we could simply magic them up on demand. People don't understand data, statistics, not to mention systems. Some are paid handsomely for, frankly speaking ,not doing much.
I often have an imposter syndrome,but it looks like the bar is really really low.
I'd argue about the "are still fine" part.
My country was under soviet occupation. We were so behind that it's beyond scary. A plastic bag with Bruce Willis or Stallone's face printed on it was something out of this word. I'd argue that by the time the whole darn thing collapsed, we were 20-30 years behind the western world.
It can be anything really.
Better medication design, discovery and modelling of new compounds, disease discovery, better understanding of our environment, etc.
I had a look at some properties in Chicago. Obviously no idea how good or bad the areas are,but the housing prices made me jealous when I compared to what we could buy for the same money in Lithuania.
Same here. Of all the software companies, Docusign has the easiest, most straightforward product that is neither resource intensive nor it requires some bleeding edge innovation. So what do all those people do really?..
I only briefly tested it, however:
Salesforce formulas
DAX queries
Excel formulas
Script snippets
Text outlines
All sorts of things that aren't necessary difficult per se, however people often have to refer to the docs to do them( regex anyone?)
The main point is that people need to know the underlying stuff,so they can do a prompt, glance at the result and fix it of necessary. Definitely not like some are dreaming where 20 dollar subscription replaces entire marketing departments.
It does. It wouldn't happen on day one. But, slowly, it would start creeping in. As someone else commented: what if, you buy some mega turbo sex toy 3000 and a couple of years later super religious orthodox government wins elections. What if the government decides that you can buy one thing but not another. What if you want to organise a little poker night with your old buddies and so on. Look what happened with the internet. Endless scare stories about terrorism, pedophiles and eventually mass surveillance is in legislation..
The last time I used cash was some dodgy kebab kiosk. I don't carry any coins or banknotes. I don't even have a wallet, just a card underneath the phone cover. However, I don't want my or any other country going full digital on it. Hell is already wallpapered with initiatives like this.
I used Yahoo about twice. Then, a couple of months later, I tried this new thing called google and I don't remember visiting Yahoo again. So I'm equally surprised that they still exist after all those years.
Well, you are right. My BMI is off the charts,but not because I don't go to the gym,but because I overeat in the evening. There's no exercise on the planet that can offset multiple trips to the fridge before you go to bed. And the reason why people overeat is different for everyone: lack of sleep, stress, anxiety, boredom, poor nutritional choices and so on. So it's crucial people fix this part if they really want to change how they look and feel about their body, because otherwise you sign up to the gym and quit 3 months later, because there's no progress at all.
The context switching is substantial with 6 clients, even if it's the same tech. As for 1 day per week: a very senior person can give good advice or point to the right direction. The company I work for isn't a tech company, but we do hire people to provide specialist knowledge and it doesn't require full time position to do so.
That's exactly how it is. I still remember going into the office, when the company was going through some very tough period, and sitting with the directors and other managers. All we had was a spreadsheet with employee names, positions, and their salaries. Then,one by one we removed as many as it was possible and then people got made redundant.
FOMO. A handful of CEOs start headcount reductions and others feel pressure to do the same, because eventually boards and shareholders ask those questions. So to 'calm the markets', an announcement with 10K jobs, is due.
Having been born under the Soviet occupation and witnessing it for a few years before the the whole thing collapsed, it was the German mail order catalogs that made most people realise how bad we had. So the soviet union collapses, there's litterly nothing to buy, huge unemployment,etc. But some start going to western Europe (especially Germany) and suddenly you go from only seeing crappy russian made stuff to Japanese VHS players, proper audio systems, clothing that looks cool and comfy. I used to scroll those catalogs for hours thinking how the hell Germans have so much stuff+ trying to convert deuchmarks to our own currency just to realise that it would take my dad's entire salary just to buy some of of those things in the catalog. The beginning of 90s was crazy: we started having these black plastic carrier bags with celebrities printed on them- it was insanely popular thing to buy! I remember we had this guy in a wheelchair in our town - someone brought him a proper baseball hat from the US, people kept talking about it for weeks how he's the only one with this hat( some jackass took the hat from the poor guy a few weeks later). We were litterly decades behind. And then wild capitalism started. By the end of 90s, the country had more or less anything you could buy in western countries. Looking back,even though I was just a little kid back then,the progress we made in three decades is insane.
I bet they did laugh all the way to the bank, but the example shows how "well" local authorities manage to structure these deals. There are countless examples where a company offers something for otherwise grant gods forgotten place and they forget any due diligence or safeguards in contracts..
I used to have socks with 'Monday', 'Tuesday', etc. I used to wear them randomly. A lot of people used to notice it and comment why I'm with Friday socks even though it's only Tuesday:)