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 LinkedIn is horrible for the job search now. I think the tides have turned and not doing any applications directly through it is your best bet.
Going human to human gets you a lot further - feels awkward maybe but emailing old colleagues and friends and asking if they have any leads is well worth doing. Also applying to places where it's via emailing a CV/résumé to a human being.
Finding the jobs is harder without a search engine though ofc...
@GossiTheDog good recent list here: https://bsky.app/profile/jesslynnrose.bsky.social/post/3mmemo7f5vk2r
Also heard good things about https://remotive.com/ - but it's a paid for service.
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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 What's "AI mad"?
I mean, I use (preferably local) LLMs pretty much daily but it's like saying I use a compiler daily or reverse engineering software daily. LLMs are just one tool of many, not something magical.
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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 Sorry to hear that. I'm sure that, if needed, you will find a way to finally start your own airline company. I'll fly with you
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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 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.
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@GossiTheDog What's "AI mad"?
I mean, I use (preferably local) LLMs pretty much daily but it's like saying I use a compiler daily or reverse engineering software daily. LLMs are just one tool of many, not something magical.
AI mad is, when people start thinking that the storiodal markov chains are capable of thought and reason.
You won't need any (de)compiler nor reversing tools, as the LLM magically will do everything of that already on its own and much better (or really soon) and more.
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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 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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AI mad is, when people start thinking that the storiodal markov chains are capable of thought and reason.
You won't need any (de)compiler nor reversing tools, as the LLM magically will do everything of that already on its own and much better (or really soon) and more.
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.
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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.
Ignoring that three nines of LLM/AI are demonstrations of GIGO is weird.
Ignoring the colossal environmental destruction caused by the data centers is weird too.
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@autisticplushy @GossiTheDog Ironman was a vibe coder
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Ignoring that three nines of LLM/AI are demonstrations of GIGO is weird.
Ignoring the colossal environmental destruction caused by the data centers is weird too.
My GPU isn't using more power when running an LLM than when playing a game.
I don't think you have actual insight into this topic - while I obviously have. So why make such a reply?
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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 Applying POSIWID: The purpose of LinkedIn is to prevent competition from, and people getting employed by, non-corporations.
[Edit: Or "AI" startups with sole intent to be acquired by a corporation, which is 100% of startups now]
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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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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 am trying to dodge the job posts mentioning AI and organizations selecting candidates with extremely biased AI, and it's increasingly difficult. I hate this AI timeline.
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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!
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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 wish everyone losing their jobs to this garbage had enough money & influence to get together & start a good software & hardware company together, but it seems to be mostly the people on the "bottom", who do the actual work but have no influence or money.
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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 John Carpenter nailed it with IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS.
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I very nearly did that myself a few months ago (I walked out mid shift due to reasons) and I'm not even employed in InfoSec or forced to use AI
@simonzerafa @davep @GossiTheDog hi, I feel Im in the same boat.
Self-emploiment is on the table if this shit last too long.
Actually, I kind of expect this to be something rather common because there must be many of skilled people who refuses to be part of this llm-mania. -
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 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. -
@GossiTheDog I wish everyone losing their jobs to this garbage had enough money & influence to get together & start a good software & hardware company together, but it seems to be mostly the people on the "bottom", who do the actual work but have no influence or money.
@jackemled @GossiTheDog so - digital commune time? Maybe a co-op living place somewhere with low cost of living?
