I've been working with #AI for 20 years. It's been, in one way or another, something I've been doing my entire adult life.

I've been working with Language Models for over 10 years. Been working with computational linguistics for over 20 years.

I've been working with Large Language Models for 6 year, and 3 in a professional capacity.

I have spoken at conferences, been in academic debates, given lectures, published a small press paper, and arm pre-publication for a paper in the psychometric society on them.

I recently had a #Job interview where a "Software #Engineer" at least a decade younger than me interviewed me about #Agentic AI System design. The pre-instructions, AI written, explicitly told me to identify problems in my code, and proactively tackle them without being asked.

The person interviewing me did not understand the words coming out of my mouth,.

They did not understand the problem space they were interviewing me on.

They didn't know what job I was applying for.

They literally said that they think "#Claude #Code is perfect.

They haven't written any code for a year.

I did not get the job I applied to as an "AI Engineer".

I was genuinely embarassed for the person interviewing me, and infuriated that the company would put me through this process.