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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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.
@troed @vampirdaddy @GossiTheDog you're an expert in assembly/RE and you use an LLM to help you. Nothing wrong with that.
However businesses think they can hire someone with no experience who "knows Claude" and do just as well. Of course they can't, but that doesn't stop businesses from trying. This is destroying people's livelihoods, so you can see why people are a little upset.
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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 some guy at my wife’s office was gunning for a promotion, so he falsified some presentations on what AI could do to help his job, claiming it could do all of it. He got his whole department (including himself) gutted and offshored “with AI assistance”. AI and the offshore workers can’t do the actual work, so it’s increased everyone else’s workload significantly. But it hasn’t completely stopped everything in its tracks, so the investors patted themselves on the back, gave themselves a bonus, and are planning even more layoffs.
Last she saw of him on LinkedIn, he was making those fucking LI posts about AI still with a “looking for work” badge. -
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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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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 Yeah if you want to avoid AI I feel like linkedin is not the place...
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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. It's AI everywhere out there.
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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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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!
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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.
