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Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad? (www.noemamag.com)
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[–] 3 points 2 days ago (1 child)

gwbasic on an XT here. Automate yourself out of that particular job. If not you, someone else probably will, or some expensive outside consultant will identify it for the chopping block. Find something of more value to do within the company, and slap an AI label on it for good measure. You are in the trenches now and you see the dysfunction... It's likely the same company-wide, so rife with opportunity.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Automating my own job was what I did do for decades of my career, the problem is that SOMETHING changed in the past year or two. I don't know what it is or was. AI speculation and fears? Late stage capitalism? The govt? The economy? All of it?

    But it shifted pretty heavily from development and code and a desire from all aspects of the company of wanting automation and UIs and scheduled jobs and better reports and just... You know, the useful corporate crap. It used to be in constant demand It was "boring" because it was corporate pie charts and data, but it was still coding and problem solving and technical and engaged more than 2 brain cells. I enjoyed it. I was useful. It made sense. And it all shifted and is now meaningless bureaucratic corporate bullshit. I can't tell if ANYTHING tangible is actually being done at the end of the day anymore. It feels like 100% fluff and no meat. Ya know? I don't feel alone in that feeling either. I think a lot of us are feeling a weird and sudden disconnect.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago

    AI hype and uncertainty is definitely influencing decision making, that's for sure. If your company doesn't have strong integrated product and architectural leadership, then managers across the company are probably grasping at straws, hoping to find some meaningful goals and ideas that stick. And lazy leaders, who traditionally rely on Gartner and similar feeds for trends and investment direction, probably think anything AI related is a safer bet than ... well, anything else their underlings are proposing.

    Hence the need to wrap sound decisions in a layer of AI. It's BS, and many know it's BS, but it seems necessary just now.

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