• jacksilver@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I mean that’s kinda the whole point.

    Companies are looking at AI to replace people. Either it’s ready or it’s not.

    If you need to treat it like it’s an intern, then it’s not worth the expense. Anyone hiring interns to be productive doesn’t understand why you hire an intern.

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        4 months ago

        You don’t hire interns for productivity. If you’re intern program is any good it’s a time/resource sink. However, it’s a good recruiting pipeline and provides young people an opportunity to get real world experience.

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          You don’t hire interns for productivity

          Because it’s unethical. I’ve been in business for 10+ years but i never hired an intern because i don’t find it fair to make someone work for less than minimum wage, and i don’t have the structure required to really teach them anything. I have bad fundamentals and only ever learnt by doing, so having an intern while it may help me wouldn’t really help them and that’s not a deal i’m willing to make. Probably why i’m not super successful lol

          That being said, i don’t see any problem with making a GPU cry somewhere in California for my menial tasks. And it’s tremendously effective too, for a hundred bucks a month i get a lot of shit done that would take me ages. I don’t give it access to anything critical so it can’t fuck my shit up and i come out on top as long as the tokens are subsidized by dumb VC money.