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 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.
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@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.
@skry @SomeVeganCheeseIsOk @GossiTheDog @JustinDerrick None of us want anything to do with LLMs. I do not want to fix problems caused by LLMs unless it's because I am replacing them with a real tool.
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@skry @SomeVeganCheeseIsOk @GossiTheDog @JustinDerrick None of us want anything to do with LLMs. I do not want to fix problems caused by LLMs unless it's because I am replacing them with a real tool.
@jackemled @skry @SomeVeganCheeseIsOk @GossiTheDog That was precisely my point - in the example I gave, I wrote the solution from scratch - I built something by hand that did what the customer needed, which not only WORKED, but it was better, more reliable, and closer to what the client’s client wanted.
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@jackemled @skry @SomeVeganCheeseIsOk @GossiTheDog That was precisely my point - in the example I gave, I wrote the solution from scratch - I built something by hand that did what the customer needed, which not only WORKED, but it was better, more reliable, and closer to what the client’s client wanted.
@JustinDerrick @jackemled @skry @GossiTheDog someone made a spectacular point not long ago that people who don't know any better are confusing *automation* with *ai* and that's a big stupid inefficiency you can target as "cost reduction" for them
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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 if you find an industry immune to AI, please share
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@GossiTheDog Keep working on sharpening your skills, and pivot to consulting, specializing in fixing AI bullshit.
Here's an example.
A client came to me and said "We need some help debugging some code, we've had a team of four developers working on it for two weeks, and we can't make any progress."
I took a look at it, and while a quick glance seemed to be fairly straightforward, a closer look showed they were sending malformed SQL into one tool, whose output would be a CSV file, and trying to push it into another tool that only accepted XML as input... And some of the command line options they were using for these tools was complete nonsense.
"Where did you get this code?" I asked the project manager...
"Oh, it came from <insert name of LLM here>, and it looked fine!"
I started from scratch, and wrote what they needed in about 6 hours... But they burned 300+ hours on trying to make sense of garbage output, while THEIR customers were stuck waiting for data.
@JustinDerrick @GossiTheDog For most corporate asshats, AI shit will be "good enough," but people who can make shit that actually works will be more valuable than before AI.
I've currently taken over a vibe coded project. It's not horrible, but they're doing some shit wrong. It's a small codebase so whatever. I will say this, I've taken over some projects written by humans that were far bigger piles of shit than anything I've AI produce. And some of that shit was running $400 million a year companies on literal trash.
So that's why the execs get excited about AI, they've always been fine with shit.
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