don't sharpen your little latin stilleto for me, mongoloid.
naw mac'd just point his phone at you.
LMAO Literally the easiest job to convert to AI, you even said it yourself.uziq wrote:
ironically, the project managers are pretty secure despite their bullshit jobs. there's nothing to automate. they're people coordinators and email harriers, and that's basically non-replaceable by an agent.
Copy-paste previous project plan.
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Has anyone considered using AI for evil purposes?SuperJail Warden wrote:
My emails are often to important people and have a genuine impact on people's lives. I may not have as much money as you but I certainly have a bigger impact on the people around me. And I want my emails to be perfect since my words can carry weight and show up in reports and agendas.
ChatGPT - reply to this email. Construct and word it in such a way that it enrages the recipient such that at the end they snap their laptop in two and hurl it through a window.
I feel that people have just given up on having fun these days.
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the point is, they are basically a parasitical do-nothing class that have inserted them into organisations. on a human level they have made themselves unreplacable. i am not saying project management is some elite skill representing ultra-rare human capital. it's not. just there will always be a layer of managers in most corporate organisations directing work and holding meetings all day long. AI isn't going to automate that away. it's coming for the perfect GPA star-student carnegie mellon coding gurus. sorry. it's not the world i wanted, either.Dilbert_X wrote:
LMAO Literally the easiest job to convert to AI, you even said it yourself.uziq wrote:
ironically, the project managers are pretty secure despite their bullshit jobs. there's nothing to automate. they're people coordinators and email harriers, and that's basically non-replaceable by an agent.
Copy-paste previous project plan.
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most of my friends working in tech or tech-adjacent roles in the UK (and some in japan) are reporting mass culls of the 'smart' ones. not valuable, sorry. one very competent A-tier engineer can now oversee the work of about 20 former employees using AI agents. the stack-maestros are still worth their weight in gold, but the standard team roles are going first. and this is coming on the back of a two-decade oversupply of compsci/STEM graduates. where are they all going to go? into research? that area also decimated and defunded by the trump administration?
besides, let's be honest, a lot of software 'engineering' in the last decade or so has basically been nerd-gatekeeping by a class of people who used google and stack overflow for 8/10ths of their daily work. that 'expertise' has precisely been canalised into LLMs. a lot of extremely well paid people who don't understand the fundamentals of their field, snarfing on reddit all day and believing they are a secular prelate holy class. "i didn't even go to college, i learned to code online, heee hee, you're such a gullible sucker for getting credentials" types.
you see there's a hiring crisis for new graduates because all the journeyman, learn-on-the-job roles have vanished into thin air. want to know an industry that is booming in the UK? HR. recruitment.
HR women and project managers:
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observed as far back as the 90s. the generation of comp-sci teachers back then and the coursework was very much building up fundamentals and putting together knowledge and projects from the ground up. there were programs where you could plug a circuit in and get a neat layout, but it wasn't what we used early on. you were supposed to understand what you were doing! company-sponsored coursework was different.uziq wrote:
besides, let's be honest, a lot of software 'engineering' in the last decade or so has basically been nerd-gatekeeping by a class of people who used google and stack overflow for 8/10ths of their daily work. that 'expertise' has precisely been canalised into LLMs. a lot of extremely well paid people who don't understand the fundamentals of their field, snarfing on reddit all day and believing they are a secular prelate holy class. "i didn't even go to college, i learned to code online, heee hee, you're such a gullible sucker for getting credentials" types.
in 20-balls, i took html and we put together websites with notepad and had to get it all cleared by w3c check. we had dreamweaver! in digital art, a big part of coursework was also traditional medium, in spite of the literal rest of adobe cs standing around like an unattended wallflower during charcoal and pencil sessions.
batman cartoonists in the 90s actually had to argue for the use of non-traditional technology/techniques in animation, iirc. the way they put it made it sound like a big fight.
i've got anecdotes from oldsters whose math classrooms banned calculators (but you could use a sliderule!)
i think what's changed is saturation. imagine taking serious photography and your new camera decides to just go ahead and AI-correct your picture of the harvest moon or something, then finding out later that it's slop.
damn i remember dreamweaver. that just teleported me back to being about 12–13 and just getting online, trying to figure all that stuff out.
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i had a summer of coding around that age. the field tradition of copy/paste lives on.
ms had so many opportunities and resources to become the king of pc games, engines, distribution, lol. i don't want to hear any of these companies whining about valve.
ms had so many opportunities and resources to become the king of pc games, engines, distribution, lol. i don't want to hear any of these companies whining about valve.