Today my spouse and I went to "Citizen Burger" for lunch, and I really love these multilingual puns.
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I am "Hasufin" on every platform I can get my hands on. I have been "Hasufin" for 30 years now. I am very serious about coffee, I love archaeology and Japanese art. Was a tech guy in a previous life, but am now adjacent.
I think it says a lot about the self-awareness and media literacy of US billionaires, that in "The Boys", Elon Musk identifies more with Homelander (the villain) than the character they included who was just literally Elon Musk.
But the enduring issue is, people are using AI to find a worse solution for solved problems. Search. Spellcheck. Grammar. Things that existed, and if they weren't perfect they were better than a hallucinating neural net that drinks a bottle of water and runs a refrigerator for every question.
Earlier this week I observed a co-worker essentially ask AI to search for tickets assigned to me.
I'm not sure which is worse - if he used AI because he uses AI for everything, or if he used it because*for no damned reason* the search function in the ticketing system is trash and can't find tickets.
I'm not sure which is worse - if he used AI because he uses AI for everything, or if he used it because*for no damned reason* the search function in the ticketing system is trash and can't find tickets.
I just learned that in addition to laying me off, Cisco laid off the one other writer in my business group who also understood how to handle REST APIs.
So, yeah.
I feel bad for the writer in question, but I cackled. Cisco unloaded both barrels into the company's feet. I am currently seeing tickets being closed with "No API Writer is available to resolve."
So, yeah.
I feel bad for the writer in question, but I cackled. Cisco unloaded both barrels into the company's feet. I am currently seeing tickets being closed with "No API Writer is available to resolve."
Y'know? I love seeing a problem which absolutely would have been an urgent issue for me last week, and realizing it's Not My Problem At All right now.
Not to mention there is no one assigned to handle it. By my former employer's choice.
Not to mention there is no one assigned to handle it. By my former employer's choice.
Al SweigartOH: "still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them"
Cisco has:
- laid off over 1/3 of the tech pubs team
- including half the managers of that team
- ignored managerial recommendations as to who could be laid off
- not built a transition plan for moving task to retained employees
- not communicated goals to remaining managers
- not updated orgs to reflect head count loss
I honestly do not believe they are going to continue supporting the Secure Firewall product. They will claim they are, but they have cut out the ability to do so.