I agree for the most part, but the part that scares me is that kids know less and less about how these things work. It is just too magical. The last post by Wolfram taught me how limited it was. I never thought there could be a workable merger between the two platforms. So this scares me.
That's the entire point. There is ongoing critique here in germany, that the school system and especially STEM topics have been undermined by years of horrible legislature, pushed by MBA's that only want slightly better qualified personnel for much worse pay. The syllabus in math got stripped down to bare essentials and even then it still focuses a lot of methodology, that is unfit to prepare students for academia. Lifting the overall graduation rate for degrees that qualify for college is no help (50% of of all students in germany are elligible for starting a degree).
The result are college freshmen that don't know how to do arithmetic with fractions, much less higher math. I was able to graduate without being able to integrate.
And now OpenAI comes along and is about to apply even more pressure to this underqualified workforce. I'm already preparing for the whole "Given the recent advances in AI, why should I hire you?" shenanigans. And I personally know people whose job consists basicially just of writing E-Mails and coordinating employees. If you'd ask HN about them, they're basicially a worthless human individual, a parasite leeching off of corporate money that shouldn't exist, or at least seriously consider sepukku if they had any morale.
