Been a helluva weekend.

This week I think I'm going to make some progress on these books. Wish me luck. Have a great week, y'all!

1. AI Engineering by Chip Huyen
2. Bill Hicks: Love All the People by John Lahr
3. Awareness by Anthony de Mello
4. Arguably by Christopher Hitchens

PS. To whom it may concern: Yes, I work with AI. Yes, I have very mixed feelings about it.

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We need a word for the opposite of the #SundayScaries. I mean when you got up early and worked out and did the laundry and the dishes and paid the bills and watered the plants and finished the week's meal prep, and now it's 5PM and you start thinking "do I just... do I get ready for bed?" I mean I guess I can watch #TheMasters for a couple hours?

#Golf #Adulting

The first film version of “The Fall of the House of Usher” is a calleidoscopic and expressionistic 12-minute masterpiece in miniature by James Sibley Watson & Melville Webber.

Perfect for #SundayScaries watching.

#WatchThisHouse #cinema

https://archive.org/details/TheFallOfTheHouseOfUsher1928

“I Will File a Police Case!”: Why Your Boss Wants to Own Your Sunday (And Your Soul)

By the NewsPatron Corporate Desk #IndianWorkplace #ToxicBosses #SundayScaries #BNS351 #WorkLifeBalance “I will file a police case against you if you resign.” It sounds like a dialogue from a bad Bollywood villain, but for thousands of Indian employees, this threat is just another Tuesday. A viral video making the rounds shows a manager threatening an employee with legal action simply…

https://newspatron.com/indian-workplace-toxicity-sunday-work-police-case-bns/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

By Sunday afternoon, I start to maybe feel like a human being. And then the Sunday scaries kick in and I'm dreading Monday.

#sundayscaries

So the AI project that I worked on has been in beta for the last month to gauge user-adoption and feedback. Tomorrow, they're turning it off and starting to charge for it, so I'm expecting there to be a huge drop-off in usage once people have to actually start paying for it.

And of course, the amount they're charging is so ludicrously over-inflated because all they see is $$$ and are looking to use this feature to make up some budget short-fall. Any customer that agrees to this charge has to know they're getting fleeced, but it'll definitely be interesting to see who recognizes it for what it is and says no.

It's the people that just accept it and pay it that concern me. I hate the fact that I'm tied to this project that is purely for the sake of the investors, but I hate even more the customers that will perpetuate this nonsense by paying for it, thereby buying into this whole "don't get left behind" bullshit.

I would rather see this project fail solely on the grounds of price rather than have it succeed knowing that it's nothing more than a cash grab, pure and simple.

Tomorrow's gonna be the most Monday that ever Mondayed a Monday, I'll bet. So excited to return to work!  

#sundayscaries

Sitting here trying to guesstimate when I'll get fired from my current corpo wageslave gig because I "no longer align with the direction of the company" as the board and investors continue to push for more and more "AI" involvement in product development in order to accelerate it faster and faster to meet ever-shrinking and arbitrary deadlines.

Wondering when I'm going to be considered archaic enough to be replaced, and how much time I want to invest in becoming a prompt engineer or vibe coder in order to stave that off.

#SundayScaries #IHateVibeCoding #NotCultureFit

Was asked last week to help brainstorm "how can we get more AI into our daily workflow to accelerate development even faster?" because the investors wanted it, not because it's good for the company.

Going to an internal "AI Summit" this week to talk about how we can "AI" the shit out of our new project and basically churn out an expert system as fast as possible instead of doing it right (which will likely take years to do).

Makes me wonder how many days I have left at this company, for various reasons on both sides of the fence. It makes me feel dirty because it seems to be being done for every single wrong reason there is.

It's the fear of being unemployed (and likely uninsured) for another 2 years under this increasingly broken system that drives me at this point. I am getting old and at this point am an unwilling rider on this bullet train to ruin.

#SundayScaries