i do think it's funny that any company that wants a huge influx of extremely good engineers could just say "we are not doing ai" on the careers site

[kirakira@furry.engineer]

i do think it's funny that any company that wants a huge influx of extremely good engineers could just say "we are not doing ai" on the careers site

[yvan@toot.ale.gd]

@kirakira the main problem with this is that thanks to "AI" nobody ever looks at your careers site

I am in the confusing situation where I work for an "AI company", but it isn't LLMs lol... so a) we do not do "that kinda AI" (think more like: expert systems), b) it's good to call ourselves an "AI company" because of the marketing hype right now. But it's hard to show this in a way that good dev applicants can understand at a glance.

[sondra@lgbtqia.space]

@yvan @kirakira "non-generative ai company" would be enough for me to get it and I am not a dev

[brib@bribstodon.xyz]

@sondra @yvan @kirakira Yeah, when looking at a company/job role I look at the details of the AI tech used. I'd have to be very desperate to jump on the generative AI hype train but there are kinds of machine learning with real and non-dystopian use-cases and I've been happy to apply for roles with that sort of thing

[sondra@lgbtqia.space]

@brib @yvan @kirakira it is just the worst that the mareting bogus name "ia" is used for like 30 different technologies aaaa