alt Hacker NewsInteresting, the "training of new animators" mirrors what has/is happening in other industries.
When I started programming decades ago, an experienced programmer would review my work and help me out. That started ending in the very late 80s and 90s. By 2000 or so, you were on your own as a new employee. I even mentioned it to a high level manager a while ago, he said we expected people we hire to know what they are doing.
I have heard similar things have occurred in manufacturing too.
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Remember the joke about asking for 5 years of experience with a 5 month old framework?
This is part of the whole move fast and break things mantra. If you have to train people you aren't moving fast enough. And now they can bolt on AI turbochargers.
I feel like this might be the transition between an industry driven by apprentice-ship like guidance to an industry driven by credentialed training.
Do you think this is a global phenomenon or regional maybe just in the US or the Anglosphere?
> we expected people we hire to know what they are doing
I feel this is a generational thing. Many baby-boomer parents never took the time to teach their children any skill. They thought they learnt it by osmosis I guess. Their generation outsourced everything they could.
God forbid we invest in the future. Investors need those profits now!
It'll be very interesting reading future studies on how this has negatively impacted entire generations. Hopefully people realize that you need to pay younger people living wages to learn skills, if they want people to have those skills in the future.