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joshuaisaact | 1 month ago

I may have misread your comment, but I don't think soft skills are a 'narrow thing' at all. Effective communication, building trust, bringing people along with you - these are fundamental to being an effective human, not some niche pivot.

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CrulesAll|1 month ago

"Effective communication, building trust, bringing people along with you" That's a David Brent powerpoint presentation.

joshuaisaact|1 month ago

Fair. I'll retire 'bringing people along with you' before it ends up on a motivational poster with a stock photo of a rowing team.

Though you're right that there's no I in team. There is one in AI though, which probably tells us something.

EGreg|1 month ago

Look, if we zoom in, then "learning to code" is also quite a broad range of skills that someone needs to master before they can meaningfully carve out a career in a competitive marketplace.

The point is that if you zoom out, it's just a thin slice that can be automated by machines. People keep saying "I'll tell you in my experience, no UAV will ever trump a pilot's instinct, his insight, the ability to look into a situation beyond the obvious and discern the outcome, or a pilot's judgment"... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZygApeuBZdk

But as you can see, they're all wrong. By narrow here I meant a thin layer that thinks it's indispensable as they remove all the other layers. Until the system comes for this layer too.