Thread 106409396

How would you feel when an interviewer says, "If AI can do this in 5 minutes, why would we hire you?"

I was asked this question in a recent interview, and the initial answer I gave didn't seem to convince the interviewer. In the end, I said something like: "I can't compete with AI because it's trained on the entire internet, but what I can do is use it strategically. I've worked in places that strongly encouraged this approach."

Has anyone else been asked this question before? How does one answer without sounding defensive or sarcastic, especially when the tone of the question itself is demeaning?

>>106409396 (OP)
>"If AI can do this in 5 minutes, why would we hire you?"
If you're trying to hire people, then AI isn't good enough.

>>106409396 (OP)
You can't compete with AI at giving 1 short answer to 1 short question.

Fairness
Resource
Strategy
Anecdote accepted: argument original.

>>106409396 (OP)
>picrel
It's literally backwards though

>>106409396 (OP)
If someone asked me this in a demeaning way I would insult and demean him more and his family 3 generations back because I wouldn't give two fucks about working with such a mongoloid

I would tell you to go back to R*ddt
Other than that:
>Why are you wasting your time interviewing humans then?
>AIs are not fully autonomous nor will they be for some time. WIll you be operating it? If not you need me and my expertise to filter through the bullshit it will inevitably output

>>106410047
>Sorry, ranjeet got the position, thanks for applying!

>>106409396 (OP)
If AI is so great and infallible why are you interviewing people for jobs at your company?

>>106409396 (OP)
>May I use ai to answer the question?
>no
>So human output is more valuable?

>>106409493
That's how it is in my twitter feed too. Social media just makes everyone live in their own reality with its own enemies.

>>106409396 (OP)
>pic
it's the exact opposite irl tho

>>106409493
People often project their thoughts and personal issues onto others.

AI might do this task in 5 minutes, however delivering a good product needs more than that. That's why I'm here, to think a step ahead and provide the shortest way to build a product that will satisfy your clients.

>>106409396 (OP)
As a dev I spend maybe 20% of my day coding. The rest is clarifying the requirements, chasing after api contracts, writing good and accurate documentation, understanding and fixing obscure bugs etc.

>>106409396 (OP)
I'd say, why are you even hiring and wasting other people's time if you think like this?
And then walk out.

>>106409396 (OP)
>I was asked this question in a recent interview
I don't believe you.

>>106410824
So 20% useful work and 80% busywork that isn't needed
Got it

>>106410047
You're doing good work, it's important to call out redditors so they don't form a colony here

>>106409396 (OP)
I think this is a good question because it outs retards who think AI is some snake-oil solution that will do their job for them.
How I'd answer it I'd probably something akin to, "While AI has many applications, in my experience it quite often makes mistakes or gets lost in the details when it tries to solve complex problems; in addition, it often goes for the easiest solution to a problem, and that may not be the best. You're right in that AI can do what you would be hiring me to do. However, what I can do more reliably is manage the process of solving the problem using rational thought, memory, applied logic and genuine understanding. Since an AI is only a simulacrum of these things, you'd have to have someone whose job is to check its work. Considering how fast AI can work, it would probably require a team of people just to read and correct its output. Therefore, I posit, that it's actually more cost effective and serves better value to the client, to hire a human to do the AI's job."

>>106412965
What do you do for a living?

>>106409409
>>106410538
These are good!

>>106409396 (OP)
say "then you're just wasting both our time" and leave?
what is it with burgers all just deciding they no longer have spines jfc