Leaf

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Furry artist, IC design engineer, hardware security & cryptography, 🏳️‍🌈🦊, occasionally NSFW. I post about engineering stuff here. My main profile for art and other fun stuff is @leaf (fursuits.online)
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LeafMar 5
Leaf DuboisMar 5

I was drawing on the airplane. Guy behind me taps my shoulder, "You're going to the animator's conference? Those drawings are great. I run an animation studio. Which studio do you work for?"

"Thank you but sadly I'm attending the cryptographic hardware module conference." Thx for the FOMO :)

LeafMar 2
🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)Mar 1

Here's to all the kids who were born with non-default settings; to all you who put the effort in to figure yourselves out.

You're amazing and deserve to be celebrated.

I'm glad you're here 💝

LeafMar 2
I've never suffered from Imposter Syndrome in engineering but I've had countless moments of positive illusion, thinking I'm better than I really am :P
LeafMar 2
Actually we will hire in Europe and Asia, but never in the US. Meanwhile the tiny US team with only 2 design engineers has to design and support products for the US defense market in addition to our standard product line. I'm the unlucky fool who's responsible for design, implementation, and support our entire defense product line. They expect the most of us but give us the least amount of resources, so excuse me if I support our customers poorly (if at all), and if our products seem ill-conceived and jury-rigged (they are). 😂
LeafMar 2

Me: "We're understaffed. This leads to sloppy, inefficient execution and the whole team is stressed out. We need more engineers."

Boss: "I know and I agree. But we need to show more revenue before the execs will approve more reqs."

Me: "We just made the most revenue ever. If we're unwilling to invest in our team now, we never will."

Boss: "Uhh... hmmmm"

I have this convo with my boss every year. This is why I don't really care whether our projects succeed or fail.

LeafFeb 27
Leaf DuboisFeb 27
Patent #21 granted! 🎉
LeafFeb 18
Show threadLeaf DuboisFeb 18
20 years is an eternity in tech, especially when working at smaller companies. I've survived many rounds of layoffs by becoming the person that the org can't live without. It isn't always as nice as it sounds :P
LeafFeb 18
Leaf DuboisFeb 18
I've been at my job for 20 years! My mugshot graced the slide deck in today's quarterly all-hands meeting. As I bask in the divine glory and honor, I'm wondering if I'll get a paperweight or something. 2️⃣0️⃣‼️
LeafFeb 12
Larry GarfieldFeb 12

This is the most depressing thing I've read in a long time.

https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening

Of particular note:

"The people building this technology are simultaneously more excited and more frightened than anyone else on the planet. They believe it's too powerful to stop and too important to abandon."

Which means every one of those people is a moron. We're Prisoners Dilemma-ing ourselves into oblivion.

And no mention of the environmental impact, either. Naturally.

Fuck this timeline.

#AI #LLM

Something Big Is Happening

A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.

matt shumer
LeafFeb 11

"We'll look into your issue/question and call you back."

No they won't. They never call back, ever.