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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Don't start me on meetings, I used to have to get up at 4am to fly to Germany for a meeting which could have been a phone call or an email.
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???
is this the guy who berated me for taking a few long-distance flights following years of pandemic lockdowns?
who got into endless back-and-forths about our cumulative, lifetime contributions to the melting planet?
you kept that part quiet.
lmfao.
is this the guy who berated me for taking a few long-distance flights following years of pandemic lockdowns?
who got into endless back-and-forths about our cumulative, lifetime contributions to the melting planet?
you kept that part quiet.
lmfao.
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In my defence I was young and needed the money. That applies to most things I've done.
I needed that money to pay other people who were also young and needed the money.
Even so, probably still adds up to less than one global circumnavigation.
I needed that money to pay other people who were also young and needed the money.
Even so, probably still adds up to less than one global circumnavigation.
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yeah man, nobody else who travels has the same level of necessity as you. your family emigrating? special case. you racking up frequent air miles for work? you needed the money! anyway your career is more important than anyone else's. everyone else who travels is wasteful, frivolous, selfish, etc.
you always evince this sort of piggish egocentrism. it's by far your most low-IQ trait.
ironically, maybe if you read a couple more novels or watched a few more (non-marvel) movies, you'd gain a finer sense that other people have rich interior lives and compelling motives -- just like you.
you always evince this sort of piggish egocentrism. it's by far your most low-IQ trait.
ironically, maybe if you read a couple more novels or watched a few more (non-marvel) movies, you'd gain a finer sense that other people have rich interior lives and compelling motives -- just like you.
Now that I am jewish this is a compliment, thankyou.uziq wrote:
you always evince this sort of piggish egocentrism. it's by far your most low-IQ trait.
The goyim have nothing and are nothing like me.other people have rich interior lives and compelling motives -- just like you.
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I have my principal exam the 9th of May. After that I am going to start looking for admin jobs outside of my district. I don't want to teach anymore. Totally burnout.
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I am not angry at the system. I am angry at the students. The kids don't want to learn.
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I am not angry at the system. I am angry at the students. The kids don't want to learn.
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imagine how different it would be if education wasn't so adversarial and punitive towards kids. you get up in the bum-ass morning and are forced to go to this regimented place where you're told what you can wear, when you can eat, shit, or even wipe your nose every single day. what you can learn and how/when you learn it is tightly controlled. if some twit assaults you, you're just as much at fault for i guess being there. then you get to go home (if you have one, or if you aren't at your job) and...relax? no, you're supposed to keep doing mandatory work. what are burnout rates like for actually dedicated students?
doom and gloom to look forward to. spam-apply for some horror story dead-end job, paying under living wage, with or without a college education. get ghosted by like 99% of potential employers. sorta live and (eventually) work in a country where people with broken legs beg to drive their own crippled self to the hospital to avoid ambulance fees. a bleak, dead nation existing solely to prop billionaires, on a planet with a doomed climate.
kinda depressing for a 16yo while mr macbeth lectures them on the importance of paying attention to operation market garden!
tHe KiDs DoN'T wAnT tO LeARn, whose fault is that? a bunch of students in high school still bereft of a love of learning or even the basic toolkit.
the year is 2035 and america's best and the brightest have either fled the country or are completing 80 years of indentured servitude to student loan companies so they can get their bomb collars deactivated.
doom and gloom to look forward to. spam-apply for some horror story dead-end job, paying under living wage, with or without a college education. get ghosted by like 99% of potential employers. sorta live and (eventually) work in a country where people with broken legs beg to drive their own crippled self to the hospital to avoid ambulance fees. a bleak, dead nation existing solely to prop billionaires, on a planet with a doomed climate.
kinda depressing for a 16yo while mr macbeth lectures them on the importance of paying attention to operation market garden!
tHe KiDs DoN'T wAnT tO LeARn, whose fault is that? a bunch of students in high school still bereft of a love of learning or even the basic toolkit.
the year is 2035 and america's best and the brightest have either fled the country or are completing 80 years of indentured servitude to student loan companies so they can get their bomb collars deactivated.
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The issue isn't just the kids don't want to pay attention to me yapping about Stalingrad.
There is legit violence taking place in our public schools.
https://youtu.be/4wofemLpPC8?si=lchMcaZcnfxbRcI-
We have severely behaviorally messed up students. The kid that pointed his cellphone at me didn't do it because high gas prices. I didn't get cursed out by a different student because the Strait of Hormuz is closed.
https://youtu.be/XMhIUo2a1iE?si=GzTGzfl5az1gCRHK
Damn. those kids are really depressed about corporate taxes.
There is legit violence taking place in our public schools.
https://youtu.be/4wofemLpPC8?si=lchMcaZcnfxbRcI-
We have severely behaviorally messed up students. The kid that pointed his cellphone at me didn't do it because high gas prices. I didn't get cursed out by a different student because the Strait of Hormuz is closed.
https://youtu.be/XMhIUo2a1iE?si=GzTGzfl5az1gCRHK
Damn. those kids are really depressed about corporate taxes.
of course the kids are acting out over more personal issues and experience! america is holistically fucked up. their fault for being born here instead of, like, sweden. obviously.
you've had the classes for this stuff. you're the forum expert here. i don't blame you for wanting to move on from a job you're not enjoying. just think teachers probably have some 'too close and personally invested' going on when they're all like, "ya this is 100% the kids, the little shits." i could probably dig up youtube videos of professionals giving it more than 2d thought.
get you some breathing space, certainly!
kids (maybe not your kids) definitely think about stuff going on in their country and elsewhere in the world.
get you some breathing space, certainly!
kids (maybe not your kids) definitely think about stuff going on in their country and elsewhere in the world.
I think someone needs to take a hard look at what education is for.
If its to prepare children for a lifetime of disappointment its not doing an effective job.
If its to prepare children for a lifetime of disappointment its not doing an effective job.
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i don't really want to hear anything from the people who sabotage education, cancel grants, and persecute the educated about how we need more homegrown experts. where do they think experts come from? well, countries like india, i suppose.
speaking of that matter, i do not want to hear any conservative acquaintances whine about how they can't understand someone's accent on the phone. pinching the bridge of their nose, stuttering their frustration, "soo-per-vi-sor." shut up! learn a second language and then get back to me about it! john or mary from delaware are doing their very best, and you'll get better results from indian customer service anyway, within the constraints of whatever lousy corporation you're on the phone because of.
speaking of that matter, i do not want to hear any conservative acquaintances whine about how they can't understand someone's accent on the phone. pinching the bridge of their nose, stuttering their frustration, "soo-per-vi-sor." shut up! learn a second language and then get back to me about it! john or mary from delaware are doing their very best, and you'll get better results from indian customer service anyway, within the constraints of whatever lousy corporation you're on the phone because of.