HACKER Q&A
📣 amichail

Do tech companies mislead students by calling their jobs "creative"?


For example, someone who wants to make indie games may not enjoy working as a software engineer at a tech company.

Both activities may be considered "creative", but the creativity involved in each case is different.

And just because someone enjoys one sort of creativity doesn't mean they will enjoy another.

I think calling both activities "creative" is highly misleading.

  👤 PaulHoule Accepted Answer ✓
Personally I think the use of the word “creative” is frequently a bad smell. One common misses is a kind of idealization of the concept where people will say something like “large language models can’t be creative” but when you try to pin down what “creative” means for them they refuse and I get the feeling they are somewhere between Penrose and Hubbard in that creativity is an OT power of an immortal thetan or something.