alt Hacker NewsMany people with no skills are taking advantage of the LLM craze to artificially inflate their own value. I see it every day on LinkedIn.
People that previously have barely any experience in tech, now being hired in AI startups because they are good bullshitters.
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To be fair, "people with no skills inflating their own value" is what LinkedIn has always been like. But I guess LLMs are uniquely well positioned for that task.
I heard the term "Sloperator" a few times. Quite fitting...
> People that previously have barely any experience in tech, now being hired in AI startups because they are good bullshitters.
I like the symmetry of people being unable to detect "skill" in people who are great at manipulating language and in LLMs who are also great at manipulating language.
This isn't new due to AI, just amplified.
Countless directors and managers are now cosplaying as engineers. I've seen so many myself and that's just my tiny slice of this engineering world