So, I'm a guy. I learned programming on punch cards. I have a freind, my age, who, decades ago, was hired to troubleshoot a problem with some machine code for one of the US military branches. Day two of reviewing code she asked the question "Where was this variable initialized?" People in power kept her on while the engineers were saying it could not be the problem. Long story short, that fixed the problem. It's People like her, unafraid to speak up, and people like the man in charge, that change things. Keep your eye on AI as it is doing some of the same things, unveiling incompetence and exposing fraud. The world is changing. Hangman it's going to be a wild ride!
So, I'm a guy. I learned programming on punch cards. I have a freind, my age, who, decades ago, was hired to troubleshoot a problem with some machine code for one of the US military branches. Day two of reviewing code she asked the question "Where was this variable initialized?" People in power kept her on while the engineers were saying it could not be the problem. Long story short, that fixed the problem. It's People like her, unafraid to speak up, and people like the man in charge, that change things. Keep your eye on AI as it is doing some of the same things, unveiling incompetence and exposing fraud. The world is changing. Hangman it's going to be a wild ride!
Daniel, that amazing story is the whole message! Nobody needed new technology to ask:
"where was this variable initialized,"
they needed someone willing to ask it out loud while everyone senior in the room insisted it couldn't be the problem.
That's the pattern I keep seeing with AI too, it's not handing anyone new competence, it's just making it harder to pretend the question wasn't valid.
Your friend sounds like exactly the kind of person organizations say they want more of, right up until someone actually behaves like her.
Thank you for sharing the insightful experience!