The AI age

We’ve had the pleasure of having Cody who is a recent high school graduate as our summer intern. It’s been a lot of fun having him here for the past few weeks. As an incoming college freshman, Cody’s work for the company has been more geared towards him learning the ropes of what it’s like to be in the workforce.

He’s joined multiple members of the team on calls and done a few job shadows. We’ve also set him up with a capstone project which is to research a company that we should invest in. I was not surprised to see him pick Canva as he’s had experience using it during school.

Kids these days definitely have an abundance of tools and resources and it’s awesome to see. I feel fortunate to grow up in the internet age. I can only imagine what it’s like growing up in the AI age.

I’m happy that my kids will not have to go to the library to checkout books to do research. The world’s biggest library is at their fingertips and can be accessed with a quick prompt. The pains of manual repetitive tasks will be gone by the time my son hits the workforce. I’m glad he doesn’t have to spend much of his first years in the job force doing a lot of copying and pasting.

I remember the older folks in my first job talking about the awful things they had to do when they were early in the workforce like manually printing reports and stapling thousands of copies together. In 18 years when my kid has his first job, I’ll gladly be that old guy talking about how awful the first few years of work were.