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★ Amy Star ★4d ago

i'm pivoting to AI (Artificial Incompetence)

★ Amy Star ★4d ago

in case you need a taste of how fucked the tech industry is right now, I'm being required to use AI at work. if I talk about how it fucks up or overcomplicates basic asks, it's because I "don't know how to use it" which indicates a "lack of growth mindset", and thus poor performance. I've been told this directly to my face, starting immediately.

so not only must I use Claude, I have to cover for Claude's mistakes, and then go the extra mile to pass off my own work as Claude's.

★ Amy Star ★

anyway, I need to pay rent, so I guess I'm a slopper now.

at this point, I want to move to a farm and shovel pig shit for the rest of my life.

eilidh, sus took her home 4d ago

@AmyZenunim I'm so sorry. That's such bullshit.

This kind of shit is why I'm trying to get the pre-reqs I need to get into a nursing program. I'm just done with professional computer touching at this point.

I hope you're eventually able to find a job that doesn't force this kind of horse shit on you. Or if you're actually serious about the farm thing, I do know some pretty rad resources for aspiring farmers I could send your way?

Jeff Grigg 3d ago

@sidepony @AmyZenunim

Note: LLMs are filling the healthcare field with dangerously misleading nonsense that kills people. 💢

eilidh, sus took her home 3d ago

@JeffGrigg @AmyZenunim My last job was in healthcare IT. I resigned in protest because I refused to participate in the provisioning of a so-called "AI scribe" product in provider exam rooms. So believe me, I know.

@sidepony @JeffGrigg @AmyZenunim willing to share more details? My parent's doctor uses some variant if this (and the medical software I've personally seen and worked on was bad on fundamental levels let alone security or any other specific metric)

Мейкпост 2d ago

@sidepony Respect for your protest. @JeffGrigg @AmyZenunim

@AmyZenunim Did I recently check what it would take to sustain myself with trout farming, for exactly these same reasons?
Yes.

brainwashed by lentils 3d ago

@bovaz @AmyZenunim
going from slop fondler to animal abuser is not an upgrade. plz grow veg instead, and watch this:
https://WatchDominion.org
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@bovaz Are you knee deep in fish now?

@matt I wish

@AmyZenunim I wonder if this will get tech workers to develop greater class consciousness or no.

BTW, is there a list somewhere of companies using AI (internally or not) so I can avoid them? I really don't want to be taking on the risks associated with poorly-engineered/unengineered technology.

★ Amy Star ★3d ago

@lykso I'm an anarcho-socialist. but I'm also a disabled minority. I already stuck my neck out at this company and got nothing in return except extra scrutiny. I don't come from any appreciable wealth, and I have to pay rent, so Im just going to have to grin and bear it.

The Witch of Crow Briar 3d ago

@AmyZenunim @lykso I’m sorry :( 🫂

@AmyZenunim
But the good news is, the tool isn't free, so you can probably make it run extra hard and cost just about to much to whoever is asking you to use it...
@lykso

Matt Rife 2d ago

@lykso @AmyZenunim I haven't seen any signs of increased class consciousness, but that's just anecdata from my tiny corner of the world. As for companies using AI, I think the better question is, "which ones aren't using it?" because as far as I can tell they are ALL on the hype train.

Mike Spencer 3d ago

@AmyZenunim
I bought a fountain pen. Communicate the old fashioned way 😂

DJ Sexy Fresh 3d ago

@mikerspencer @AmyZenunim use it submit a hand-written resignation letter as a flex

Mike Spencer 3d ago

@djsf @AmyZenunim I did one in the (nearly) casio calculator font https://fontmeme.com/fonts/qt-eurotype-font/ 😅

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Matt Rife 2d ago

@djsf @mikerspencer @AmyZenunim I first read that as "...resignation letter by fax." Which would be incredible, tbh.

@AmyZenunim I don't think they can see what you're using Claude for, just how many tokens you've spent.
So if you just do what you used to do, and have Claude come up with some original recipes for pies in the meanwhile, they probably will never know. 😁

@n3wjack @AmyZenunim I don’t think such approach will work for long. Becaue at some point, they also expect a massive growth in efficiency using AI - as promised by BigTech. So projects have to be completed much faster, which is just impossible to achieve without AI. And if you‘re not producing results fast enough - again it‘s your fault.

@3mind @AmyZenunim But how are they going to measure that efficiency gain? I have my doubts LLMs are actually speeding things up. You still have to double-check and review everything it spits out, which takes time. If you don't, you'll end up with mistakes you'll have to clean up later. So there goes your efficiency.
For some jobs it's just faster if you don't use it at all.

@n3wjack @3mind @AmyZenunim

> I have my doubts LLMs are actually speeding things up.

The expectation is to see more patches co-authored by Claude or similar, which completes stories and deliver something, even if it's incomplete, buggy or plainly wrong. It doesn't matter how many new specs are being added or how confident are you in the result; what it matters is getting things out of the door - push it, crush it.

That's kind of the never-ending cycle at least for software developer context.

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@AmyZenunim
Same.

They're paying for my time, if they want to waste it I guess that's their business

@AmyZenunim Same, and I never thought that I would regret not taking the agritech program option for high school.

/usr/local/goth @ home 2d ago

@AmyZenunim yeah it sucks, things haven't escalated to that point for me yet. Huh thought just occurred to me of slapping a coauthored by Claude on random shit

Mx. Eddie R 2d ago

@AmyZenunim
Same. I'm looking for something better, but it's a slog through endless other slop shops, competing with other good devs for the few organic dev jobs still out there.

Meanwhile I've gotta eat to live and gotta work to eat, so slop it is.

@AmyZenunim this sound suspiciously familiar. It's either terribly common or we share an employer 🥲

Anyway, moving to farming is exactly what I'm doing now, shoveling shit gives more satisfaction to me than forced bot interlocution.

MissConstrue 2d ago

@hkz @AmyZenunim My gigs have slowed to a crawl, so I decided to turn some of my land into agricultural, and I’m starting very small, less than an acre. Girl, I bought a rototiller. And I used it. For about four hours, and it’s taken two days to not feel like I was hit by a truck. I’ve ridden cattle, but never farmed...holy shit, farming is hard! (The goal is to grow produce for the only non religious food bank in the area, at the rate I’m going, I may be able to offer a tomato.)

@AmyZenunim this is *precisely* where I’m at with this stuff. I’m a slipper at work but I hate it.