That’s very true. But interns aren’t supposed to be doing useful work. The purpose of interns is training interns and identifying people who might become useful at a later date.

I’ve never worked anywhere where the interns had net productivity on average.

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simonw 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Replace "intern" with "coworker" and my comment still holds.

	▲	sarchertech 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It worked with interns because interns are temporary workers. It doesn’t work with coworkers because you get to know them over time, you can teach them over time, and you can pick which ones you work with to some degree. To come up with an analogy that works at all for AI, it would have to be something like temporary workers who code fast, and read fast, but go home at the end of the day and never return. You can make a lot of valuable software managing a team like that working on the subset of problems that the team is a good fit for. But I wouldn’t work there.