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Job recommended to me on LinkedIn wants 6+ years of experience with AI agents. ChatGPT launched less than four years ago.
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Job recommended to me on LinkedIn wants 6+ years of experience with AI agents. ChatGPT launched less than four years ago.

If you aren't using AI agents to travel back in time and get more years of experience with AI agents you're falling behind. This is what Matt Shumer warned us about!

EDIT: A lot of people are noting that AI agents have existed for decades, and while that's true I'm pretty skeptical that this posting for a UI developer wants me to have played with ELIZA or Twitter bots. If they'd put "6+ years of work experience with automation" I'd feel differently

u/AlfonsoHorteber — 7 days ago
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Any idea what's happening to my hot pepper plants?

Planted four hot peppers plants, each ~4 inches high on planting, in my raised-bed garden a couple weeks ago, and since then all have been eaten. It's not just holes in the leaves – the whole leaves are gone, and in some cases a significant portion of the stem too, all overnight. I tried a combination of Neem oil with some organic anti-caterpillar product and this didn't seem to make a difference. The same raised bed is home to tomatoes and basil, neither of which has been touched. Curious if anybody here has any experience with this.

u/AlfonsoHorteber — 7 days ago
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Is it reasonable for me to try to get into tutoring and if so, what's the best way to do it?

I'm a liberal arts/communications-focused person in his mid-30s. I majored in journalism and creative writing back in college but then got into web design and then web development because I'm fairly technically proficient and that's where the money was. Not long ago I got sick of my startup job and decided to take some time off from full-time work (I have a ton of savings at this point) while working on my own projects (web dev + I still write fiction consistently and have been in a couple workshops).

My question is – is it at all reasonable for me to get into tutoring at this age as a side/temporary gig, with literally zero teaching experience (except for teaching various contractors how not to muck up our codebase)? And if so, what's going to be the easiest way to do this? Obviously webdev is no longer an easy field to break into, and has an uncertain future, so I'm not sure if the mentoring demand is what it was 5 years ago. I know a ton about writing (essay and creative) but have no experience teaching it whatsoever. I also know that a lot of people want ACT/SAT tutoring, and my ACT score was stellar, but 18 years ago, so not sure it's still useful in any real way.

Just curious if anyone with experience in the tutoring world has any thoughts. Sorry for what's no doubt an incredibly specific question.

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u/AlfonsoHorteber — 14 days ago
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Is it reasonable for me to try to get into tutoring and if so, what's the best way to do it?

I'm a liberal arts/communications-focused person in his mid-30s. I majored in journalism and creative writing back in college but then got into web design and then web development because I'm fairly technically proficient and that's where the money was. Not long ago I got sick of my startup job and decided to take some time off from full-time work (I have a ton of savings at this point) while working on my own projects (web dev + I still write fiction consistently and have been in a couple workshops).

My question is – is it at all reasonable for me to get into tutoring at this age as a side/temporary gig, with literally zero teaching experience (except for teaching various contractors how not to muck up our codebase)? And if so, what's going to be the easiest way to do this? Obviously webdev is no longer an easy field to break into, and has an uncertain future, so I'm not sure if the mentoring demand is what it was 5 years ago. I know a ton about writing (essay and creative) but have no experience teaching it whatsoever. I also know that a lot of people want ACT/SAT tutoring, and my ACT score was stellar, but 18 years ago, so not sure it's still useful in any real way.

Just curious if anyone with experience in the tutoring world has any thoughts. Sorry for what's no doubt an incredibly specific question.

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u/AlfonsoHorteber — 14 days ago