If someone said "do you want to interview my agents first", I think the interview would be over. Well maybe the first time I'd be tempted to see if I could tokenmaxx someone else's agent. After that it would be too much work for the enjiyment. Maybe I should automate that workflow.... Oh no they got me!

Even though programming and IT is a great hobby of mine, I ultimately decided not to pursue it on a university level as I didn't want to potentially turn my hobby into something I despise. I've been regretting this decision a lot throughout my life, but as AI becomes more and more incorporated into the work life of a programmer, I'm starting to feel relief. I would not want to work in that field today.

Laaaaame

First off, they're not his agents unless he's got his own LLM running on his own server; and you can't just show up at a new job with a server all like, yeah, plug this into your network and grant me permissions, it'll be fine.

Secondly, you can automate workflows without LLMs. Crontab, for instance. Trillions of people have been automating workflows for tens of thousands of years. Agentic automation is more expensive and less reliable than cron.

If someone is showing up at my office and telling me they're going to use Claude to rename a .PDF I'm going to laugh and then ask them to leave.

You want the future? Don't be the guy selling shovels during a gold rush. Be the shovel-maker, and then hoard your shovels to inflate demand. Fill your house with shovels. Use shovels instead of plates and cutlery and clothing. Make sure everyone knows that you're The Shovel King (or Queen) and don't tell anyone you're unemployed, no matter how many job interviews you fuck up by talking about shovels.

An average 22 year old does not have the experience to automate 10 workflows, let alone 100. They also don't know all the gotchas. This is dumb advice.

Translation: "I have no real understanding of anything beyond feeding it into ChatGPT. Please pay me millions of dollars to be a net loss to your organization."

Aww, poor little guy can’t automate things without agents.

These fucking morons have convinced themselves that their glorious chat bots are actually able to replace actual work.

Those agents aren't yours in multiple ways. That's not how things work.

Every day I am radicalized a little bit more

Even if the LLM worked flawlessly, you're just proving your lack of purpose to the company which means they'll fire you. What do these people even think?!

Yeah, what the fuck am I automating in my daily life that would be beneficial for a new position I’m walking in to?

Also, automation and AI are not exclusive to each other. I have tons of automations at home and my house is set up with a bunch of virtual assistant commands and lights, Air conditioning and some other things have an automated schedule. None of this was done with AI.

I work as a lead software engineer a at a large e-commerce and manufacturing company. I guess I could train an agentic ai to automate some of my workflows, but at the reduced cost of ownership of problems and intricate knowledge of how to fix issues as they arrive. LLMs love to inject mock data that “looks” right, but in practice this doesn’t mix well with programming.

LLM are self poisoning prediction machine, and as far as I’ve been able to test can’t even handle multi-level react apps that are intertwined with 3rd party applications. Basically making it useless with any software that has multiple integrations.

Is that khan from khan academy;

I would actually punch this person

If you're automating workflows, you don't get to take your current employers code with you when you leave.
Are you supposed to just be writing random automations for things that might exist somewhere? Why would anyone think that's impressive?

Either you're showing me something useless you did for no reason, or you're asking if I want to see some stolen IP. Neither of these is giving me a particularly good impression.

As others have listed, can't really share this as the company owns all the work. Even then, not every company is the same. There's a lot of stupid shit I could automate in my current position that would be useless at every other company--the processes (and reasons behind them) are completely different.

I'm glad I had only spent a few grand on IT certs before the whole industry went tits up. Looking forward to a post internet world with all my hoarded data.

Agents for what? Liking the best memes on Reddit? Discovery for user and business needs is so fucked.

Why would they hire you if you're not doing anything.

Ah yes, automation, the field that is well known for systemizing processes into chains of predictable machine I/O — the perfect place to inject the mercurial hallucination service I rent.

"Sorry, the job description said we were looking for a software developer, not a bot wrangler. There must have been some kind of miscommunication. Best of luck out there!"

Sounds like a way to get hired, implement all your automations, then you'll get fired.

The better move would be to package your automations, and then sell the package to corporations, including up charges for implementation, testing, and customization.

That's how you go from being a worker wage slave, to being independently wealthy.

I work in cinema content

Try that shit with studio IP. I fucking dare you

So I work for a state government and I can code a wee little bit. I found some ways to automate a good chunk of my work with app scripts. Full disclosure, I review them but I couldn't do it without Gemini. 😅 (That being said I would never trust an agent as an automation for anything)

I made the mistake of telling a coworker or two about the first automation I did. One of them told the boss thinking I'd get kudos.😔 I did and more work.

Haven't shared any of the automations since. I also built all the ones since to slowly work over the work day so it looks like I'm doing them manually in real time. I also automated all of the data imports using my work email so if I get fired. My account is terminated too and they will all stop functioning.

I gotta say it's actually made my work day much lighter. Hopefully it won't catch up with me negatively

This is Sal Khan from the Khan Academy. No matter one's stance on AI, Sal's perspective is worth listening to.

Source: Khan Academy CEO: The Real AI Opportunity Is in Boring Industries.