AI Breakdown

Checking Is the Job Now

Episode Notes

๐…๐จ๐ซ ๐š ๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ซ, ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐ฌ๐š๐ข๐ ๐€๐ˆ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ž ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ. ๐“๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ค, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ก๐ž๐š๐ ๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ง๐จ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ ๐š๐ญ ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐›๐ข๐ ๐ ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐€๐ˆ ๐ฅ๐š๐›๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ค๐ž๐ ๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐š๐ญ๐š ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐š๐ข๐, ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ: ๐ข๐ญ ๐ก๐š๐ฌ๐งโ€™๐ญ. ๐Ÿ“Š

Unemployment is near a record low.

So why not? If machines can create almost anything, why do we still have jobs?

Because someone still has to steer the thing, and catch it when itโ€™s wrong. And that is the quiet happy ending to our whole week on ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐€๐ˆ ๐๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ค๐๐จ๐ฐ๐ง: ๐‚๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐›๐ž๐œ๐š๐ฆ๐ž ๐œ๐ก๐ž๐š๐ฉ. ๐‚๐ก๐ž๐œ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐๐ข๐๐งโ€™๐ญ.

Today Quentin and Stark close the theme with the numbers that explain why humans didnโ€™t vanish:

๐Ÿ“Š Unemployment sits around ๐Ÿ’%, near as full as employment gets, even after two years of dirt cheap AI creation
๐Ÿ“Š AI now touches about ๐Ÿ”๐Ÿ–% of jobs, but handles only about ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ% of the tasks in a typical role. Broad, but shallow
๐Ÿ“Š The people getting the most from AI had the deepest expertise. They aimed it better and caught it when it went wrong

Thereโ€™s a real shadow, and we donโ€™t skip it. Junior hiring in AI heavy fields has softened, and developers who leaned hardest on AI scored ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ•% lower when tested without it. The widest gap was in finding whatโ€™s wrong.

Use AI for the making without exercising the checking, and one day nobodyโ€™s left who knows whether the answer is any good.

Your client was never paying for the speed of the first draft. Theyโ€™re paying for someone to stand behind the final one.

So make checking part of the work:ย 

๐Ÿ”ด Ask the tool to list its choices and where it was least sure.ย 

๐Ÿ”ด Have the person shipping it explain what theyโ€™d change.ย 

๐Ÿ”ด Then ask: would you stand behind this in front of a customer? ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ

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