Had a whole day in bed yesterday. This week has floored me.
A few observations from the week, though.
1. Middle and senior management in technical organisations that don’t work in Ops or the actual doing of technical work is entirely disconnected from the reality of doing it. This might seem obvious, but despite all the noise, nothing has changed.
2. Young hires are nearly completely technically illiterate beyond smartphones… and that’s a stretch. They also have zero mechanical sympathy and limited capacity for generalised knowledge as they no longer need to retain information.
3. These two things are going to massively erode operational agility and are making organisations even bigger targets for threat actors. Lower productivity will drive tech investment trying to solve the wrong problem (e.g. AI).
4. In 600+ applications for a single graduate analyst role, most were obviously written by ChatGPT, and none of them met the baseline criteria for the job (they weren’t very strict as this is junior). We interviewed nobody. And that makes me feel sick, as I’m very much an ‘attitude over knowledge’ kind of hirer.
It’s not been a good week. I worry for the future of our profession. Even just 10 years ago, I’d have ‘shortlisted’ maybe 500 of those, as competition was so tough. We’d have interviewed 100 of them.
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