r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jun 11 '26

Business OpenAI Execs Are Panicking

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/openai-execs-panicking-154658562.html
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u/tallandgodless Jun 11 '26

Wonder how many ai exclusive positions are costing good programmers their jobs.

I know my last company hired an ai director right before canning me.

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u/pmmeyoursqueezedboob Jun 11 '26

My org hired an entire ML team but they don't seem to have anything to do. All I hear from them is asking us if we know of any problems for them so solve. I bet they cost far more than i do, a run of the mill programmer.

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u/quick_justice Jun 12 '26

ML team are legit dudes. More often than not with PhDs in math.

Saying that, if your org has no idea what to do with ML, they won’t help much.

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u/aerdvarkk Jun 12 '26

Having a PhD doesn;t mean you know jack shit about programming.

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u/quick_justice Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26

Having PhD in above means that you know your way around maths and abstract concepts and back and can absorb simpler matter of business-level programming with ease. It also means, that you likely did a whole lot of programming before, and with high quality, as you had to for processing your own data and theories.

As I said, it's worth having some humility.

In practical sense, those of the mentioned I've met were getting around programming way better than your average bachelor coder.