Hiring should remain a team decision

Transcript

Transcribed by machine (Whisper) from the episode’s audio, so a word may be off here and there.

1. 16:17

   But before hiring them, like I have to see them in person. I have to have that. Is there any job today, Reid, that you would say the AI can do it all? like we don't need a human in the loop, like these are the jobs that we can just hire with AI and we should be good to go? Maybe a really fast scaling startup. Like, is there a world where that could happen now or like what would we need for it to be true in the future?

2. 16:37

   Well, I don't think I mean, obviously these, you know, there's some already incredibly amazing capabilities with the AIs, which are very helpful and therefore an unabridged positive. I think there's a lot of context awareness and there's still a little bit of a, you know, kind of almost like, you know, as you know, one of my favorite expressions is in theory. There is no difference in theory and practice.

3. 17:05

   It's almost like an evocation of the theory. Like it's kind of like what would I expect the hiring practices to be? you know the kind of thing that a mid-level MBA course would have as kind of a checklist which is not bad but by no means what you really want to be doing and I and I you know you're not just hiring for an individual and their capability most often but for a kind of part of a team and and so and you know part of interviewing is not just that cultural fit but also it's kind of that set of agreements of oh yeah we as a team think that this person is good and we as a team want to see them be successful and we as a team are buying into co-owning this process and so it isn't just like you know when you have a company as you know you know do something and all the other things you've done is when you have a company, you want the hiring process to be a team

4. 18:09

   process. Totally. You don't just bring in Sarah or Bob and say, hey, everybody, meet your new colleague. You know, it's like, you know, even if you say, well, we really think Sarah or Bob will be really good. And, you know, we're cross-checking with you. You don't need to do a full interview. Sometimes you do that, but you still do that. And so I don't think there's any place yet where you would hand it completely to the AI, except maybe, and this is a very limited case, say you're doing something kind of the equivalent of a project work and you're hiring essentially a contractor for a particular task, and it's just literally all you want is the task output back. You might have AI hiring, deploying, integrating only with that. But as an ongoing team relationship, I don't think, You know, it may be never, not just a question of AI capability, just on these kind of principles of forming the cultures of teams.

5. 19:06

   I love it. Human in the loop, perhaps forever.