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.
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.