My company has gone AI mad so it's time to get another job but everywhere I look, I look them up on LinkedIn, and it's just people there going mad about AI.
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My company has gone AI mad so it's time to get another job but everywhere I look, I look them up on LinkedIn, and it's just people there going mad about AI.
@GossiTheDog I'm keeping an eye on my company. I hold these people in high regard and hope they know better.
Even if I did want to leave though, like you said - everywhere else is worse right now.
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My company has gone AI mad so it's time to get another job but everywhere I look, I look them up on LinkedIn, and it's just people there going mad about AI.
seek out anti-AI folks to work with and for
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@GossiTheDog @soatok in the US anyway I think AI, war, and detainment infra are the only things not in a pretty obvious undeclared recession
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@GossiTheDog How long can the reinsurance of AI loans last before the bubble pops and the knowledgeable are a scarce resource again?
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@rrb @GossiTheDog Er... I am not sure if you mean "Not at all", "Temporarily through fraud", or "By destroying the livelihoods of those who bought in"
@Epic_Null @GossiTheDog same VCs with the same grift
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My company has gone AI mad so it's time to get another job but everywhere I look, I look them up on LinkedIn, and it's just people there going mad about AI.
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@GossiTheDog want to come work at Mastodon? Only issue: we don’t have money to hire more people, but we don’t do AI!
@renchap @GossiTheDog perhaps you can pay in plushies?
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@sarajw
On the other hand, I've just been to a security conference and where people usually share Twitter handles, almost all of them used LinkedIn instead. It was honestly quite a weird experience!
@GossiTheDog -
So I am an actual bonafide reverse engineer that spoke assembler as my first language ... but I am now using an LLM with an MCP towards Ghidra to reverse engineer a lot (and I mean _a lot_) quicker than if I were to do it all manually as before.
That's what I mean with using tools as tools when they're good at what they do. Fanatical anti-AI sentiments that ignore actual usefulness is just weird.
LLMs can be phenomenal at giving hints, granted.
But the reliability simply is lacking, so I have to verify each single step, which is sooo frustrating. So I found it too exhausting to use general LLMs.
Plus it degrades my own skill in a subversive way (use it or loose it).
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My company has gone AI mad so it's time to get another job but everywhere I look, I look them up on LinkedIn, and it's just people there going mad about AI.
I am a few years retired from the tech industry and its shiny-new-thing hype cycle.
If most companies (let's be clear: most tech C-suites) have drunk the AI cool-aid, you can ride this out.
Soon enough the promised AI benefits will turn out to be operationally and/or financially negative in most situations. And then we will hopefully see the limited use cases where it actually adds value.
Make a change if you want to, for a better environment/compensation/whatever.
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@meriksson @GossiTheDog I'd go Zumba and bouldering, on occasion Bungee jumping...
@canleaf @meriksson @GossiTheDog Where, for the latter, AI calculated the length of the rope?
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My company has gone AI mad so it's time to get another job but everywhere I look, I look them up on LinkedIn, and it's just people there going mad about AI.
@GossiTheDog Same here, while at the same time the company has huge environmental targets to meet. Asking the Board how that matches the answer is “uhmmmm… We’ll ask CoPilot”
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My company has gone AI mad so it's time to get another job but everywhere I look, I look them up on LinkedIn, and it's just people there going mad about AI.
@GossiTheDog There are an awful lot of us in the same situation. I suspect any company that announced they do not use AI would be inundated with great applicants for any jobs.
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@GossiTheDog There are an awful lot of us in the same situation. I suspect any company that announced they do not use AI would be inundated with great applicants for any jobs.
@thirstybear @GossiTheDog If only there were such companies and jobs. Sadly not, and I have to do the “I haven’t used LLMs but I’m sure they’re a useful tool” dance in interviews (when I’m lucky enough to get one). Still no job, nearly 2 years unemployed.
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@thirstybear @GossiTheDog If only there were such companies and jobs. Sadly not, and I have to do the “I haven’t used LLMs but I’m sure they’re a useful tool” dance in interviews (when I’m lucky enough to get one). Still no job, nearly 2 years unemployed.
@Shepharo @thirstybear @GossiTheDog
We don’t allow AI near our software stack because our customers care about security. I would be open to using vulnerability discovery models, but so far my experience is that they’re really bad unless someone else is paying the bill and they’re guided by experienced exploit writers.
We don’t allow AI near our hardware except offline models (and then only because someone wanted to run an experiment, which proved to be a waste of time, finding ‘bugs’ of a class that the tooling made impossible by construction) because it’s confidential IP and none of the providers have sufficiently strong privacy policies to be acceptable for corporate use.
Our sales VP doesn’t use AI because his view is that his job is to make customers trust us. That requires personal connection and a track record of telling the truth, not bland text from a bullshit generator.
Our CEO and does seem to like generating marketing pictures with AI. I’m hoping to get him to stop at some point (hopefully soon we can find budget to hire a human to set fire to them and replace them with ones that aren’t terrible).
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@jackemled @GossiTheDog so - digital commune time? Maybe a co-op living place somewhere with low cost of living?
@SomeVeganCheeseIsOk @jackemled @GossiTheDog Tech co-ops are a better way perhaps.
Fixing problems created by LLMs seems like a growth industry, as @JustinDerrick pointed out, and it can expose you to potential future employers and human networks if you use it for that. Also tool advice is going to be big as LLMs obsolete big chunks of enterprise.
Wrapping a co-op around a team can make sense for resiliency and one-stop service offerings.
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@GossiTheDog is there no way to use AI to generate activity that makes it seem like you are using it but let's you do you in peace?
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@GossiTheDog I'm also looking for a job and on most of the interviews they aks how AI changing the threat landscape or how I utilise it and when I approach it critically and I point out the enslopification or I'm any way skeptical. I see that's not wat the] wanted to hear. They all want to hear how great it is.
I feel like I have to say it's the next industrial revolution or some shit like that to get hired. -
I'm pretty sure I didn't get an offer because I said the fintech place I was interviewing at should have more scrutiny of the AI code because they were fintech and that would slow down the AI pace a little.
The guy tried to hide his sigh but I saw it and knew that was not what he wanted to hear
@eljorgeabides @GossiTheDog What you said was on the right side of history, though. It shows you have excellent professional ethics and that you want to do high-quality work that doesn’t just produce embarrassing headlines and customer lawsuits.
Companies in fintech that prize velocity over security are not the companies who are going to let anyone do a good job. You wouldn’t even be able to save them from themselves. They value think-alike, which is often fatal.
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grocery stores also tend to do well during downturns as well, as everyone pivots from eating out.
@candidwoods @ferrix @GossiTheDog @soatok Healthcare and healthcare tech, any industry being re-shored, automotive computing systems (security and privacy nightmares now), smart toys, analog handcrafts. There’s a lot of good to be done in schools, libraries, senior centers just answering questions and giving talks. Even though those don’t pay, they can lead to paying work and it’s good karma.
