You cannot teach someone who yeets things without even reading it forget checking if any of it works, who argues REPEATEDLY because they only believe the chatbot, and then complains that you don't know anything because CrapGPT made insane shit up and the AI is super good at computer.

They just drag EVERYONE down and make you look terrible.

This bit is very direct, hopefully we all survive and learn from 'the reckoning':

¨... The reckoning will not be subtle. The firms still doing the work properly will be in a position to charge for it. The firms that have hollowed themselves out will discover that what they hollowed out was the thing the client was paying for. ..."

We also really need to hear "AI is a contraindicator for quality" and something that speaks to DA's original point about how students that rely on AI are less attractive employees and will lead to lower placement rates.

1) Higher ed is absolutely all in on AI. While I think there are some novel use cases, it comes down to two things. First, at least in most computing disciplines, the vast majority of research funding (which tenure-track faculty are required to get) is tied to AI usage at the moment. Second, we're largely being told - by industry - that it's going to be all AI, all the time in the future.

To quote Upton Sinclair, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it." AI is, at the moment, deeply embedded into two of the biggest revenue streams for universities.

We desperately need external people - ideally people tied to revenue streams - talking to Deans and Chairs about the problems associated with AI. The filter bubble is real.

2) On the student side... the root problem here is that the tech industry has lost it's veneer of being an ideal (maybe even good) place to work. I broadly see less intrinsic motivation. I would cautiously say that working in tech now is perceived similarly to working in business/banking 15 years ago. Decreasing intrinsic motivation is very likely tied to students trying to find the quickest/easiest way through.

sysadmins and network folks make great redteamers because theyre intimately familiar with systems and networks ALREADY

devs and devops make great analysts because they can take those skills and apply them to the coding surfaces of security

@Viss @da_667 @hrbrmstr it would really suck to be the person who has to do multiple rounds of that with a really fast turnaround time with someone who argues with every correction you suggest. If a job was like that then it would be really frustrating.

I spent more time than I should have correcting fundamentals. Eventually I stopped. He was not, in any meaningful sense, on the other side of the conversation

Imagine doing a technical review and instead of reading feedback, they simply paste it into Claude. I'm not mentioning this for any particular reason of course