{"id":22315,"date":"2025-06-20T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/talentedint.com\/?page_id=22315"},"modified":"2025-07-01T07:28:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T07:28:29","slug":"the-engineer-20-codes-commands-robots-and-makes-the-coffee","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/talentedint.com\/fr\/the-engineer-20-codes-commands-robots-and-makes-the-coffee\/","title":{"rendered":"The engineer 2.0 codes, commands robots, and makes the coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"sp-page\" class=\"spBgcover sp-content-4\" style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: url('https:\/\/assets.seedprod.com\/93-7v88vkr23q3ujpcp.jpg'); font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-weight: 400;\">\n<section id=\"sp-nr4dww\" data-mobile-visibility=\"#sp-nr4dww|false\" data-tablet-visibility=\"#sp-nr4dww|false\" data-desktop-visibility=\"#sp-nr4dww|false\" data-mobile-css=\"\" data-tablet-css=\"\" class=\"sp-el-section\" style=\"background-color: rgb(52, 56, 126); 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width: 710px; height: 900px;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"sp-image-dynamic-tags-js-jpdzzl\"><script>jQuery(function() { image_dynamic_tags('jpdzzl' );});<\/script><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div id=\"sp-bia39i\" data-mobile-css=\"#sp-bia39i|height:40px;\" data-tablet-css=\"#sp-bia39i|height:10px;\" class=\"sp-spacer\" style=\"height: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<p><span href=\"\" target=\"\" rel=\"\" class=\"sp-header-block-link\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\"><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"sp-k1duwj\" data-mobile-css=\".sp-headline-block-k1duwj, #sp-k1duwj, #k1duwj|text-align:center;\" data-tablet-css=\".sp-headline-block-k1duwj, #sp-k1duwj, #k1duwj|text-align:center;\" data-mobile-visibility=\".sp-headline-block-k1duwj|false\" data-tablet-visibility=\".sp-headline-block-k1duwj|false\" data-desktop-visibility=\".sp-headline-block-k1duwj|false\" class=\"sp-css-target sp-el-block sp-headline-block-k1duwj sp-type-header\" style=\"font-size: 37px; text-align: center; margin: 0px;\">RIP Soft Skills: buried under metrics and machine bias<\/h1>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"sp-ql0o19\" data-mobile-visibility=\"#sp-ql0o19|false\" data-tablet-visibility=\"#sp-ql0o19|false\" data-desktop-visibility=\"#sp-ql0o19|false\" data-mobile-css=\"\" data-tablet-css=\"\" class=\"sp-el-section\" style=\"background-color: rgb(52, 56, 126); 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color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; text-align: left;\">\n<p>Soft skills are dying. Not because they\u2019ve become irrelevant, but because algorithms are quietly strangling them. In the name of efficiency, predictability, and optimization, we\u2019ve handed over the keys to a system that rewards conformity and punishes the very traits we used to call \u201chuman.\u201d Empathy, creativity, intuition, adaptability, the so-called emotional intelligence that once gave candidates an edge is now filtered, scored, and devalued by machines that don\u2019t feel and don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It started with good intentions. AI tools were supposed to help us spot soft skills better, faster. Sentiment analysis in interviews, personality tests powered by machine learning, tone detection, behavioral predictions based on writing samples, it all sounded futuristic, even fairer. Why trust a biased hiring manager when you can rely on an \u201cobjective\u201d system ? But what we got instead is a cold, algorithmic funnel where your spontaneity is flattened, your story is tokenized, and your uniqueness is either too risky or too unquantifiable to matter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Algorithms don\u2019t like nuance. They like patterns. And soft skills are not patterns. They\u2019re contextual, dynamic, and deeply human. But try explaining that to an AI trained to detect leadership through voice modulation or resilience through keyword frequency. The moment we let software evaluate personality traits, we surrendered soft skills to formulas. Now, your ability to show empathy in an interview depends less on who you are and more on how well your tone aligns with what the algorithm was trained to interpret as \u201cempathetic.\u201d This isn\u2019t recognition. It\u2019s mimicry. Worse, it\u2019s gamified mimicry, candidates now rehearse \u201cauthenticity\u201d for machines. It\u2019s the performance of soft skills, not the presence of them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, employers proudly claim they value emotional intelligence more than ever. But their hiring systems say otherwise. ATS filters still privilege hard skills and keywords. AI-driven pre-screening tools score candidates based on data proxies that have nothing to do with character. Cultural fit is reduced to a machine-learned probability. And leadership potential ? Apparently measurable through facial expression analytics. We\u2019ve turned people into data sets, and soft skills into checkboxes. The paradox is clear: the more we automate human traits, the less we trust humans to actually possess them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This shift is dangerous, not just for candidates but for companies themselves. Organizations that over-index on algorithmic hiring are building teams that look great on paper and fail under pressure. They optimize for competence but forget cohesion. They get precision, but lose perspective. And they fill their offices with people who were trained to be selected not to lead, listen, or innovate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s be clear: the issue isn\u2019t AI itself. It\u2019s our blind faith in its neutrality and our eagerness to let it decide what \u201cgood\u201d looks like. Soft skills were always messy, subjective, hard to measure. That was the point. They required human judgment, observation, patience. Now we want them delivered cleanly, instantly, through predictive models. In doing so, we\u2019ve stripped them of their essence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So yes, soft skills are dying. Not because people have stopped developing them, but because the systems evaluating them are built by people who don\u2019t understand them. We are witnessing the death of soft skills by slow algorithmic erosion. And unless we redesign how we hire, assess, and develop talent with real humans in the loop, we\u2019ll soon forget what true empathy, leadership, and creativity even feel like in the workplace.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The question isn\u2019t whether AI can evaluate soft skills. The question is: when it pretends to, what exactly are we losing ?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sp-hwcx3k\" data-mobile-css=\"#sp-hwcx3k|height:40px;\" data-tablet-css=\"#sp-hwcx3k|height:10px;\" class=\"sp-spacer\" style=\"height: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"sp-k6yp3y\" data-mobile-visibility=\"#sp-k6yp3y|false\" data-tablet-visibility=\"#sp-k6yp3y|false\" data-desktop-visibility=\"#sp-k6yp3y|false\" data-mobile-css=\"\" data-tablet-css=\"\" class=\"sp-el-section\" style=\"background-color: rgb(52, 56, 126); width: 100%; max-width: 100%;\">\n<div id=\"sp-u496js\" data-mobile-visibility=\"#sp-u496js|false\" data-tablet-visibility=\"#sp-u496js|false\" data-desktop-visibility=\"#sp-u496js|false\" data-mobile-css=\"\" data-tablet-css=\"\" class=\"sp-el-row sp-w-full  sp-m-auto sm:sp-flex sp-justify-between\">\n<div id=\"sp-nhznoq\" data-mobile-visibility=\"#sp-nhznoq|false\" data-tablet-visibility=\"#sp-nhznoq|false\" data-desktop-visibility=\"#sp-nhznoq|false\" data-mobile-css=\"\" data-tablet-css=\"\" class=\"sp-el-col  sp-w-full\" style=\"width: calc(100% + 0px);\">\n<div id=\"sp-lc2ues\" data-mobile-css=\".sp-text-wrapper-lc2ues, #sp-lc2ues, #lc2ues|text-align:left;\" data-tablet-css=\".sp-text-wrapper-lc2ues, #sp-lc2ues, #lc2ues|text-align:left;\" data-mobile-visibility=\".sp-text-wrapper-lc2ues|false\" data-tablet-visibility=\".sp-text-wrapper-lc2ues|false\" data-desktop-visibility=\".sp-text-wrapper-lc2ues|false\" class=\"sp-css-target sp-text-wrapper sp-el-block sp-text-block-style sp-text-wrapper-lc2ues\" style=\"font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; text-align: left;\">\n<p>Want to discuss this article ? 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