AstraLumaAt a panel on IT job panel and AI is apparently a big ass deal in hiring.
I abhor AI, but I'm not sure I can stay away and get a job
Cassandra is only carbon now@astraluma I hate everything. This awful fucking industry, god damn it.
@astraluma Eating is good. You should be able to eat. I just hate the strings this fucking industry attaches to very reasonable goals like eating.
Dogiedog64This whole mania around sticking AI slop into everything is just fucking insane. You'd think cybersecurity would be the LAST place they try to shove it, but no.
Alex Celeste, Princess Consort of Burnout@astraluma feeling over here like the Horrible Financial Decision is coming up fast
the money is the only reason to stay in this ontologically-evil industry, because i can't do anything else that would feed us both, but jfc im going to have to learn something at some point :(
レイン ~ Lain@astraluma I also am forced to use AI at my new gig. At the end of the day, you gotta eat.
I'm personally in a position where I can offer a bit of mutual aid to people on fedi. I think that use of funds negates the guilt a little. I ultimately help more than I harm (I hope at least)
But yeah, it was a struggle to accept that I would have to use it.
Russell@astraluma I intentionally avoided that panel, and several other tech ones or with certain presenters, because I knew they were going to talk about AI. They'll use a bunch of faulty analogies and I didn't want to spend hours in panels being That Guy pointing out the panelists are Wrong.
"It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It"
The reality is a job that requires AI is a place you would have been miserable at prior anyway.