I lately saw the following Software Development jobs requirements:
Experience with Generative AI - Advantage
What the hack does it means? I know how to use ChatGPT or Bard, but how much experience can one have to be experienced with it?
And I’m not talking about AI/ML or Algorithmist jobs
It means HR wrote the posting.
I’d be prepared to give a statement in an interview on how generative AI is a useful tool but doesn’t replace programmers, and that even if it someday did, there would still need to be people with programming skill to integrate the generated code into the existing system, understand the implications of the new code on the existing system, etc, but I wouldn’t go further than that.
- Java developer wanted
- Minimum 6 years of experience writing Large Language Generative AI Models
- Pay range $12-$18/hour
I hope it means knowing how to use it and knowing it’s limitations… but I doubt it was a programmer making the job description.
It’s a useful tool, but not magic. Sometimes it just makes shit up…