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.
Got a mild diagonal promotion at work.
Can I face doing more work? No.
Can I face dealing with more people? Also no.
Also some of my colleagues are clearly peeved and I can see their point.
While I don't work hard I am undeniably very effective in what I do, this combination does seem to annoy people.
I mean sure you worked hard getting all the paperwork in line and smiled and nodded in meetings but your product is supposed to be waterproof and it leaks.
You should have tried highly focused minimum effort and not taking shit from fuckwits, this works really well for me.
Also I spend a lot of time clearing up backroom processes that other people eg you left in a heap and walked away from, this benefits the team now and future team members.
The new project management process just dropped.
Mother of god its gibberish, is less useful than the last one, has critical gaping holes and addresses not a single problem with the last one.
Well done to the management consultant on getting paid for that.
On the plus side I was able to avoid the company off-site thanks to a previously planned event. This was bliss.
It was rescheduled from last year and thankfully I had already booked to go away.
Can I face doing more work? No.
Can I face dealing with more people? Also no.
Also some of my colleagues are clearly peeved and I can see their point.
While I don't work hard I am undeniably very effective in what I do, this combination does seem to annoy people.
I mean sure you worked hard getting all the paperwork in line and smiled and nodded in meetings but your product is supposed to be waterproof and it leaks.
You should have tried highly focused minimum effort and not taking shit from fuckwits, this works really well for me.
Also I spend a lot of time clearing up backroom processes that other people eg you left in a heap and walked away from, this benefits the team now and future team members.
The new project management process just dropped.
Mother of god its gibberish, is less useful than the last one, has critical gaping holes and addresses not a single problem with the last one.
Well done to the management consultant on getting paid for that.
On the plus side I was able to avoid the company off-site thanks to a previously planned event. This was bliss.
It was rescheduled from last year and thankfully I had already booked to go away.
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Promotion like that sounds more like you being too valuable to get rid of vs. a true merit-based promotion.
Ive given raises/promotions to about 30 people since I started this new job back in December.
This company does not pay market rate for positions, but has a strong company culture and promotes frok within very well. There are two issues with this style -
1) there has been very little mentoring for leadership positions, so I inherited some strong and some really weak managers. Will end up terminating at least one of the 4 managers that report to me.
2) the people who stay arent staying for the money, so they probably stay because no one holds them accountable for the shitty work they do. Unfortunately for them, I will let them go and hire better performers at a rate closer to where the market is. Sucks to suck!
Ive given raises/promotions to about 30 people since I started this new job back in December.
This company does not pay market rate for positions, but has a strong company culture and promotes frok within very well. There are two issues with this style -
1) there has been very little mentoring for leadership positions, so I inherited some strong and some really weak managers. Will end up terminating at least one of the 4 managers that report to me.
2) the people who stay arent staying for the money, so they probably stay because no one holds them accountable for the shitty work they do. Unfortunately for them, I will let them go and hire better performers at a rate closer to where the market is. Sucks to suck!
Thats pretty miserable Ken, 'terminating' people because they had the misfortune of poor mentoring and slack accountability.
Thats on the company, not them.
I've been in a few companies with shitty management which blame employees for their shitty management.
Thats on the company, not them.
I've been in a few companies with shitty management which blame employees for their shitty management.
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At this point I couldn't give a crap, I don't think anyone does really.KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
Promotion like that sounds more like you being too valuable to get rid of vs. a true merit-based promotion.
I've stepped well outside my role, cleared up a lot of shit, enabled millions in revenue and taken a load of shit from the slackers who disabled it in the first place and continue to deliver drivel.
I have overheard the conversations
"Why haven't you invited Dilbert to the meeting"
"He tells us we're a bunch of muppets and we don't know what we're doing, then we fail the stage gate, I just want to get through the stage gate so we can report we've got through the stage gate"
"I've invited Dilbert to your meeting"
Also people with my special set of skills are in very short supply, they literally could not afford to lose me.
At this point I don't care a jot, I should be retired and making R/C torpedo boats in my shed.
I am also going to need a Hawker Typhoon
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i'm pretty sure the majority of business meetings could be accomplished by email or chatroom. didn't covid prove this? who has time to drive cross-country just to listen to like one person position and insult and dwell on a bunch of irrelevant stuff for 90% of the duration while the guys 'in charge' of the meeting allow the hijack, twiddle their thumbs, plan lunch. you finally swing it back on topic and it's like, "ooh, we're overrunning our time, another group has this meeting room booked." who could possibly have your business hole in the wall booked! there's like three people upstairs and they're all busy dinking around in photoshop and word or something! it was part of the tour! thanks for a complete waste of my day. is this really what they teach in business school.
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