I do apologize for a bit of advertising of OSS project that I mention in the article (I think it is relevant because I'm tryna fix one of the largest pains today, at least for myself) but the main point I wanted to share/discuss is how fixing the source of the problem is much harder but often misrecognized/misunderstood maybe. And sometimes even political...

Definitely not all companies want you to do this. They'd rather keep the pipeline going that just makes their positions justified. If you're one of those people I'm curious why would you not want to try and pursue a better goal especially if you have resources to do it.

Especially.

So, things like hiring for example. This is very broken at the moment. But this is also a business for many companies and people. Billions of dollars spent on hiring every year I believe. Just to get right candidate in front of the team.

I want to imagine if suddenly we can solve the unemployment where everyone is happy, and by "happy" I mean their capabilities match the company profile, and they bring sufficient value to the company, or they are at least enabled to learn the skills required to do the job properly and increase their value over time.

Then next thought is, what happens with all those people out there that built their career, their lives around this problem? No more recruiters needed, no more resume writing services, maintaining endless stream of ATS. That's a lot of money. And I wouldn't even be surprised if this would become political at some point. To me this is an insight why we have so many problems today.

Someone might be profiting on this. So to them best interest is to keep this problem unsolved for as long as possible.

I'm thinking about solving hiring, for example.

You just type in some sort of query to find best suited jobs for you, somehow prove your problem-solving ability, get a measurable score on it: purely objective, algorithmic, deterministic way to measure it (kinda like IQ test I guess), no middle-man proxies, no oracles. Apply, then people do maybe a quick interview to see if you can work with the team, cultural fit I mean. The people interviewing you have no way to know how good you actually are before deciding whether to let you in or reject you. But their rejection should be justified, a feedback that you can work on, feedback that everyone can see and improve on.

See, I'm not even qualified enough to answer all these questions but the point is, I'm just thinking through the problem and I see it can be solved to some degree. Just one person digging into it. The more time, effort and attention you spend on something, the more you can solve. Attention is really all you need (reference to one of the first GPT paper).

But if you waste your attention on mopping the floor U+2014 yes your floor is clean but faucet is still broken and the next person living in that same apartment, they would have to deal with faucet again, and again, and again.

And again.