Understandable. Carry on.
smiletolerantly
joined 1 year ago
This scream into the void has been on my mind for a while: Apparently I work for an AI company now.
Kinda.
When I had the interviews with my now-employer at the beginning of the year, they were an open-source cybersecurity startup. Everything sounded great, we got along, signed the contract. I took a long vacation before starting the position, and when I got back, I was... amused? bewildered? to find that a), we are no longer open source; and b), we have pivoted, hard, towards AI.
Luckily, I still get to work 100% of the time on the core (cybersecurity) product (which is actually a really good and useful thing, sorry, not going to be more specific), it's just that part of the dev team, as well as all of marketing and sales, now work on building and selling an AI product built on top of that.
At least it's not a wrapper around ChatGPT, and does offer something kinda new and actually beneficial, but still, it's an LLM product.
Now, for the actual scream-into-the-void: Once a month, in a company-wide meeting, I have to observe how people praise LLMs to the the moon, attribute nonsense or downright bugs to something akin to proto-sentience, and give absurd estimates of profitability based on the idea that AI will totally be used everywhere and by everyone, very soon now, you'll see. What finally prompted (pun intended) me to post this is the CEO yesterday unironically referencing AI 2027's "predictions".
Can't wait for the bubble to burst. I'm really curious to see if I'll keep my job through that. At the end of the day, the stuff I work on luckily has nothing to do with AI, and basically every other application of the product makes more sense; but now the entire company has shifted gears towards AI...
+1 for Kagi though. Kagi is awesome.
See kids? This is why you never poke the pencil all the way up your nose.
Ja, worauf ich raus will: bei mir ist das Glas gleichbedeutend mit "lokaler Kleinimker'
Kann ja sein
Ist aber nicht der einzige lokale Imker, bei dem mit dieses Label untergekommen ist.
The fuck? Das ist das Glas, was ich bei unserem 86 Jahre alten Imker alle paar Wochen hole. Die Bienen sind seit 3 Generationen in der Familie.
Weird way to say
All Söder does is spew bullshit and post bad tiktoks.
Hold on, we might just have found the first job LLMs actually can replace.
If this had been "people should have the right to kill thieves / cyclists / trespassers / basically anything else", I'd have said "right", but OP's statement requires the acknowledgement that women are people and rape is wrong, so... left, but maybe my bar has just become far too low.
If this had been "people should have the right to kill thieves / cyclists / trespassers / basically anything else", I'd have said "right", but OP's statement requires the acknowledgement that women are people and rape is wrong, so... left, but maybe my bar has just become far too low.
I mean... yeah, you would hope that, wouldn't you? And to be fair, they were selling the product beforehand as well. It's just apparently a lot easier to sell the AI angle right now.