Starting to think the real risk is not AI replacing junior staff, but senior staff quitting because they just can’t take this AI bullshit any longer and just opt for early retirement.

[prietschka@mastodon.social]

@707Kat @jschauma Many, many seniors are leaving.

It's not just the lack of capability incoming juniors seem to have, it's the fact management is looking to hang responsibility for slopcode failures around their necks.

In DS I see a growing view that analysis will be automated, but it's my responsibility to ascertain veracity.

Yeah, that's not how this works.

"Automate my expertise away but hold me accountable for failure?"

"No thanks! Byyyyyyeeeeeeee!"

[theorangetheme@en.osm.town]

@Drat @jschauma A friend and I both unironically do this when we go to Costco.

[theorangetheme@en.osm.town]

@jschauma I'm not nearly old enough to retire yet, but I don't seriously see myself in this industry for much longer.

[spinnyspinlock@infosec.exchange]

@prietschka @707Kat @jschauma my condolences

[brass75@twit.social]

@jschauma @bluewinds If only I could afford to retire.

[artemis@climatejustice.social]

@jschauma or both, maybe.
I'm stuck, Ai has f'd up both the academia I'm trying to get out of, and the cybersecurity I was hoping to get into. Well it's f'd pretty much everything, really. its 5am here, this is just an insomniac rambling

[marijn@chilemasto.casa]

@jschauma if I was 15 years older, i'd def. consider it. Interacting with Junior devs that never get to actually grok it, are all cock-sure and lie constantly. It's Dante's special Dev ring...

[dandean@indieweb.social]

@jschauma I think about this daily.

[sauc3@hachyderm.io]

@jschauma

Yeah I am in a similar boat. I don't know how much longer I can take it. I've thought if the bubble doesn't burst in the next year or so, I will be at my whits end and will just leave to farm alpaca or something.

[chefraven@sfba.social]

@jschauma I had my own productivity consulting business for 15 years. I also did software training for a high level productivity software. I got out of the software training and finally closed my business last May because I am completely disinterested in dealing with the BS.

[nivex@tenforward.social]

@jschauma @xgranade But the grifters got their money, the future be damned.

[sharding@mastodon.social]

@jschauma hi.

[m104@mastodon.social]

@jschauma There's an ugly world where experienced staff are considered "essential workers" and therefore not allowed to not work in order to keep the pipes from bursting

[gsuberland@chaos.social]

@jschauma rising staff turnover at places pushing AI heavily is certainly making me raise an eyebrow

[grumpydad@infosec.exchange]

@jschauma Am senior. Can confirm

[ravelin@mindly.social]

@jschauma why not both!

[sandorspruit@mastodon.nl]

@jschauma I feel seen 🤨

[diabhoil@social.tchncs.de]

@jschauma too young for early retirement...to old for hyping and using this AI bs 🤮

[crell@phpc.social]

@jschauma Out of work Staff-level. Honestly debating pivoting out of software dev, both because the market is shit and because AI is shit.

Though the corporate overlords would probably want that. They want to have fewer of us anyway.

[ohir@social.vivaldi.net]

@Crell @jschauma
> Honestly debating pivoting out of software dev, both because the market is shit and because AI is shit.

Realizing that what world really needs is sheep. Many many of them. Grazing to make perfect insulation for 10s of 1000s old huts and houses.