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Much Appreciated, Bar!
we're hiring, let me know if anything aligns with your experience/career so far.
I HATE that this is the state of sports... manipulating a set schedule to bolster a metric and twist the narrative.
College sports across the board needs to be fixed.
I want to work for you
I don't know, I doubt this role is purely data analytics, I assume this person has to know something about football/scouting. Otherwise they wouldn't be looking for NFL interest.
I think most of the firing that is attributed to AI is not actually because of AI. Rather, it's an excuse to correct from previous over hiring or eliminate folks who have become stagnant/under performing in their career.
It spits out ridiculous amounts of code quickly...some of it is good, some of it is horrible.
Eh the models are improving and people are learning how to work with them. I have a lot of engineers who went from complete skeptics to "this is life-changing" in about three months.
You can't just give the models two sentences and expect them to build a shippable, usable application, but if you have half decent documentation, you feed it your coat base, you feed it meeting transcripts, it can learn a lot and be really effective
We recently took a week off from our typical development cycle to focus on tech debt reduction and because of Claude code. It was far away one of the most successful engineering projects our organization has had ever.
I'm also in the camp that people coming out of college that could lean on these tools and not know what they're actually doing are going to quickly cause problems for the industry when it comes to maintaining software.
1000%. Claude code is a multiplier but if you know next to nothing... 10,000×0 is still zero.
Biggest question; does it pay 200k.+?
Quite a few other tournament bubble teams have already canceled games like these because of how big a role RPI plays in getting into the tournament and with the Hokies currently the last team in by most projections playing Marshall, who is 179th in RPI, is a lose/lose proposition. Win and still hurts our RPI, lose and likely ends our season. Do I think Szefc will cancel it? No.
They expect Grammerly or another ap to proofread for them today.
at the rate Ai is learning how to self manage AI this job seems like it has a short lifespan. sounds cool though
and live in constant fear of impending y2k chaos? no thank you
For several years, I did the initial review of candidates for the entry-level position and internships at our office. We had no "HR" group, so everyone involved in hiring was a regular employee. I'd say critical thinking skills went downhill long before AI. Of course, writing ability and attention to detail/proofing have gone downhill even faster. We had a proofing task where I would put a dozen or so mistakes in a short document. Routine for people to find only 1 or 2 of them.
We're already seeing a drastic drop in critical thinking skills with young adults nowadays. I can see AI being useful for those already well versed at their jobs, but using it to skip the gaining the skills yourself process and just vibe coding everything or accepting whatever it spits out as "good" is going to be a nightmare in the future. How do you fix a bad product when you don't know how to make a good product yourself?
Is there any reason to think the game might actually get cancelled? Aside from schedule/perception appearance, why would we want that? I don't follow baseball much so genuinely curios.
Actually thank you for that. Looking for someone with NFL or collegiate experience goes without saying, but the candidate pool has to be very small I would assume.
This is such an interesting job description and actually sounds really cool.
Would totally apply, but I couldn't do this job in the least.
If the person who gets it is on TKP- can I set up an interview a year from now?
We need more players who drive the basket.
Code review, testing, and prioritizing
I work for a company that "can't" use AI code gen tools freely because of the nature of the work and theinherent risk but we've started implementing some usages of them and review and testing bottlenecks are nearly impossible to overcome - a lot of people are pivoting to AI to solve these bottlenecks which IMO is a horrible strategy. It spits out ridiculous amounts of code quickly...some of it is good, some of it is horrible.
I think the other thing at least right now is maintenance, if you're not smartly structuring your code bases early on these tools are currently terrible at organization they'll throw a 1500 line function into a file and it'll work but good luck changing it when another feature needs added. I'm also in the camp that people coming out of college that could lean on these tools and not know what they're actually doing are going to quickly cause problems for the industry when it comes to maintaining software.
and many companies were already loathe to pay for any type of QA process when there were human coders that could identify and fix problems since at least they knew kind of where the problem might be once a problem arose. I predict even more quality issues to rear their ugly heads as companies look for any way they can to not pay people.
Ironically, there have been a number of stories of executives using AIs to do a number of their daily tasks, meetings, approvals, etc. I wonder how long before boards start to consider how much money they can save not paying for them. (I kid of course, so many boards are made up of other CEOs and they'll never undercut themselves when they can just fire 1000 other people instead.)
Code review, testing, and prioritizing, in that order. We need to reimagine our dev process now that planning takes 20% of the time that it used to and hands on keyboard takes 10% of the time that it used to.
The first two bottlenecks have proven fixes out there. It's just a matter of changing org process/beliefs/culture.
Prioritization will make/break tech companies in a way that it never has. Building an idea used to be so expensive that few ideas made it through. Now, building ideas is cheap. Which means any stupid idea can quick land in a product and fuck shit up. Mistakes in upfront decision making are more costly than ever before. And they have always been costly; now it's moreso.
Sounds like a college frat party; pile of coats on the bed in the backroom lol...