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So what are the career options for a senior engineer in the IT industry that avoid AI entirely in 2025?
I'm tired, boss. Tired of keeping my mouth closed about it at work. Tired of waking up angry that my employer and industry at large are:
* Pushing hard to adopt an absolute crap technology with very low accuracy and consistency, which additionally has had noticeable affects on certain co-workers ability to understand a problem and picture the solution (those who seem to be offloading their thinking to AI over the last year have notably degraded in these areas)
* Supporting the enrichment of billionaire fascists who want to manipulate and control the truth and control the population to make themselves richer.
* Supporting the re-ignition of coal power plants and burning significant amounts of power and water to fuel these inefficient garbage bots.
* Generally increasing affordability problems on all fronts while also accelerating the climate disaster that will be central to my sons future.
I wake up every day angry, stressed, and mournful that I am contributing the destruction of my son's future while begrudgingly going to work in the name of his present; in order to keep him clothed, fed, and try to eek out some chance of a better financial future for our family.
I'm not sure how much longer I can keep helping drive the engine of the very destruction I want to put an end to.
There must be some companies out there doing things without AI and making technology choices that are moral. They can't all be sycophants feeding the investor greed machine.. help me find them. I need to know there are some options.
Rules of the game:
- Grab the nearest book.
- Turn to page 42
- Find the 2nd sentence
- Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it
- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.
“The hotel has some five hundred rooms, most booked, but none of my fellow guests join me as trot down the stairs from the fifth floor.”
In case you missed it, Signature Flight Support (Signature Aviation) is providing ground support for ICE deportation flights in MSP. And likely elsewhere, too. They interestingly removed the branding from their air stairs. Must be ashamed in helping this admin skip that whole "due process" thing.
Marjorie Taylor Greene has been an enemy to the left for years. Never once has she had her life, or the lives of her family threatened.
She's been the enemy of the right for one day and already she has had to hire security to protect her and her family from all the rape and death threats.
Never tell me again both sides are the same.
I wrote on Boing Boing about Disney losing the rights to Roger Rabbit - they reverted to the author of the original novel
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Chris Routh (He/Him)
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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"
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