Just came across your channel, really great content. I appreciate someone taking the time to take a broader overview of the way things are changing. There is a definite shift needed from knowledge to wisdom (problem-solving aptitude).
Great Podcast (as always)! While I have some minor disagreements with what you said, I do agree, for quite some time, it boils down to “can you solve problems” instead of “what knowledge do you know”. A few decades ago we really focused on people learning a lot of facts & information that would be used for a long time. Then, over the past 20 years (often because of technology) it has shifted to can you find out how to solve the problem (instead of knowing how to solve it beforehand) AI has definitely shifted this even further along and, hopefully, Hiring managers / HR and Colleges will realize they need to focus more on finding good problem-solvers over finding “knowledgeable people” Thanks for your work! Keep it up!
Nice points but I think experience is still important. It takes experience to know how to put all those little code bits from an LLM together in the right way. Also domain knowledge is still important.
“It’s not about your knowledge, it’s about your judgement”. I have another word for it. It’s about your REASONING. And, guess what, they are coming for our reasoning next (Orion, strawberry). First versions but imagine corpus GPT5 and o2… I think that the dirty little secret of reasoning is that it’s not different than language knowledge. Is just language about language. #meta
Fundamentally, though, the idea of solving problems as a signifier for value has always been the case. Impact is the driving force of many promotions and upward career trajectories, and that’s identifying a problem and having an effective solution. The knowledge to do so or the how has always been secondary, in my opinion/experience.
haha so this is probably a longer conversation (or video) but I both agree in principle and disagree in some interesting ways that prompted this reflection lol
Just came across your channel, really great content. I appreciate someone taking the time to take a broader overview of the way things are changing. There is a definite shift needed from knowledge to wisdom (problem-solving aptitude).
Great Podcast (as always)!
While I have some minor disagreements with what you said, I do agree, for quite some time, it boils down to “can you solve problems” instead of “what knowledge do you know”.
A few decades ago we really focused on people learning a lot of facts & information that would be used for a long time.
Then, over the past 20 years (often because of technology) it has shifted to can you find out how to solve the problem (instead of knowing how to solve it beforehand)
AI has definitely shifted this even further along and, hopefully, Hiring managers / HR and Colleges will realize they need to focus more on finding good problem-solvers over finding “knowledgeable people”
Thanks for your work! Keep it up!
Nice points but I think experience is still important. It takes experience to know how to put all those little code bits from an LLM together in the right way. Also domain knowledge is still important.
fair points!
“It’s not about your knowledge, it’s about your judgement”. I have another word for it. It’s about your REASONING. And, guess what, they are coming for our reasoning next (Orion, strawberry). First versions but imagine corpus GPT5 and o2… I think that the dirty little secret of reasoning is that it’s not different than language knowledge. Is just language about language. #meta
You're one of my favorite AI youtubers, but the subtitles are a bit annoying. Great video though.
Fundamentally, though, the idea of solving problems as a signifier for value has always been the case. Impact is the driving force of many promotions and upward career trajectories, and that’s identifying a problem and having an effective solution. The knowledge to do so or the how has always been secondary, in my opinion/experience.
haha so this is probably a longer conversation (or video) but I both agree in principle and disagree in some interesting ways that prompted this reflection lol
Similar arguments made about offshoring... We won't need junior people.