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Why Students Are Rejecting Silicon Valley's Vision Of The Future (tech.yahoo.com)
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[–] 9 points 4 months ago (5 children)

and I am constantly telling them that in the workplace situation, to not be afraid or hesitate to act on something.

This really depends on the workplace. I'm at a megacorp and trying to fix anything is far more pain and work that just not.

Like I could try to convince them to move off of python3.9 because that's old and well past end of life. But I need to explain that to my boss, the business lady, some other manager, "the audit team" (whoever the fuck they are), and then grapple with how they have 5-10 years of code and not a single line of automated test coverage.

There's no reward.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    I just don't see megacorps hiring people anymore. I mean is that really a career path like it used to be?

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    That's kind of like "no one goes there anymore - it's too crowded"

    I mean, the one I'm at is mostly doing a hiring freeze. Management is frothing at the mouth over using AI. But there are currently a lot of people working here, some full time and some under dubious "contractor" arrangements.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Has no one been pointing out to management that even firms like Microsoft are backpedaling on using AI?

    The costs seem too high, been reading about the whole pricing changes coming and it's breathtaking.

    I honestly see this as yet more of the same mentality that puts more faith in things than in other people. Corporations are notorious for this and it's getting close to the tipping point where their literal human disconnect is going to bite them in the ass.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Has no one been pointing out to management that even firms like Microsoft are backpedaling on using AI?

    Management doesn't listen to low level people who actually do work. I think this is part of Ed zitron's "Business Idiot" thesis. Upper management is so far removed from how things actually get done, they are in all measureable ways idiots

    Sometimes they also have selfish or stupid side goals, too. Like, the rumor is the company gets a tax break for people going into the office. So now they make people go into the office, even when most of their team is remote. Climate criminals all, but they're removed from the consequences.

    Upper management are fools. Middle management just wants their paycheck, and maybe to rise high enough to become a business idiot themselves.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Upper management is so far removed from how things actually get done, they are in all measureable ways idiots..

    Ah. Decades ago it was described as The Peter Principle wheren one rose in corporate hierarchical structures to their level of incompetence.

    Charming to see that it is still there.. (ofc, why would it not be?)

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