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Re:Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation by gcr on Monday May 18, 2026 @08:33AM (#48178836)
Your last sentence is factually not true. Friends across five different companies report that LLM adoption is now a key metric in their performance review.
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Re:Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation by thfuran on Monday May 18, 2026 @08:42AM (#48178936)
It’s mostly not students working those sorts of jobs. But I know people taking architecture and design courses that are heavily pushing LLM use. Hopefully that doesn’t exist outside of SF, though.
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Re:Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation by daveguy on Monday May 18, 2026 @08:54AM (#48179095)
Yeah, "not being pressured to use them" conveniently sidesteps the fact they are RLHF trained to be as engaging (aka addictive) as possible.
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