There is no in between.

For context I am a senior computer engineering student. I did some internships and talked with many people from big companies. And the thing I realized is I can't avoid AI anymore.

It's physically impossible. I resisted for years but every single fucking place is forcing it nowadays. Internships, jobs, any competitions and even my damn professors at uni.

I have yet to meet a single person in real life that does not use AI extensively. No one cares. No one thinks it might be wrong to fuck up so many things for so little (sometimes none) gain.

So I'm at a loss nowadays. I have zero motivation to do anything. I applied for masters but who can guarantee it will be any different? I will either have to use AI like any slop-coder out there or just starve. Even though I'm a hardware guy. I dont even want to think about software devs.

Fuck every single tech CEO. Fuck every single capitalist. So many people complained about the previous generation because of what they left us. But what are we doing now? Are we any better?

Sorry for unorganized and sloppy writing. Just had to dump this somewhere. Have a nice day everyone.

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[–] 6 points 5 days ago

I've worked in municipal IT my whole career and even during the latest big conference I attended the AI presentations were fairly tame and cautious.

Municipalities move SLOWW and most still don't have a fully fledged out AI policy so no-one is forcing you to use LLMs. I do keep having to tell people that the ai answer they copy pasted to me is completely wrong so that's fun lol.

Is is also nice to know that at the end of the day you're helping someone maintain a city more efficiently for the people living there instead of enriching some corpo overlords.

Pay is ~15% less than industry average but the benefits tend to be good with great job security and hours.

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