6 Figures 6 Certs Random Thoughts Thread

[Serious]

More layoffs coming for Meta. Must be hell working there.

Mark Zuckerberg says the hardest part of Meta’s “year of efficiency” is over

After laying off nearly 10,600 people in recent months, the CEO said “this has been a particularly thrashy period” in a leaked Q&A.

www.vox.com

Meanwhile their stock has been soaring over the past 6 months.

Up $124

It's a race to the bottom. My company is trying to push people out without explicit layoffs, but they'll follow suit before too long. I think these companies are going to overcorrect and put themselves back into a candidates market though.

This is a theory I came up with a while ago.

I get these layoff but AI still isn't exactly one click and figure shyt out.

And the problem emerges when a stakeholder such as a doctor ends up spending more time trouble shooting, rather than focusing on their specialty.

A stakeholder spending an after debugging code, ain't really productive and it'll get tiring, but we'll let them find out.

 

[JLova]

It's a race to the bottom. My company is trying to push people out without explicit layoffs, but they'll follow suit before too long. I think these companies are going to overcorrect and put themselves back into a candidates market though.

Oh they will overcorrect, there's no doubt. Meanwhile those who are retained are going to have to work even more.

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

Meanwhile their stock has been soaring over the past 6 months.

Up $124


This is a theory I came up with a while ago.

I get these layoff but AI still isn't exactly one click and figure shyt out.

And the problem emerges when a stakeholder such as a doctor ends up spending more time trouble shooting, rather than focusing on their specialty.

A stakeholder spending an after debugging code, ain't really productive and it'll get tiring, but we'll let them find out.

Thing for us is that AI ain't even a topic of conversation. Granted I ignore everyone above my direct manager, but I don't recall hearing or seeing any communications about chasing the AI bandwagon. Problem is, we don't seem to be chasing anything other than vendor lock in and layoffs. It's a big shift to a popular off the shelf product that probably has an army of Naps just ready to push the rest of us developers (who didn't wanna touch that shyt in the first place) to the end of the unemployment line. I ain't mad at Nap, Coli checks ain't hitting like they used to . But whoever is dictating the direction of this company needs a kick in the ass.

It's frustrating because we have areas that a ripe for innovation with AI/ML that could legit create value, but we'll be behind the power curve by the time they realize.

 

[Panther]

Spent time this weekend working on my office setup. Few small changes made me excited to work this week.

Also long weekend coming up

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

so this chick on my team admits how she used ChatGPT to write these nurture emails in our team channel, then she sends them to me today to look over messaging. these shyts are written terribly yet she's basically outsourced her work - chatgpt for the first draft and me to actually make them into shyt our company would say

fukk that, she do this again, i'm telling her she better work on these before sending them to me.

 

[Based Lord Zedd]

so this chick on my team admits how she used ChatGPT to write these nurture emails in our team channel, then she sends them to me today to look over messaging. these shyts are written terribly yet she's basically outsourced her work - chatgpt for the first draft and me to actually make them into shyt our company would say

fukk that, she do this again, i'm telling her she better work on these before sending them to me.

I see a lot of people doing this at my job, thinking ChatGPT is a magic email writer.

 

[Based Lord Zedd]

Got my first project going using AI/chatgpt.
Basically instead of reading a dashboard and manually summarizing information, which was taking people 10-15 mins each time...we get the AI to analyze the same data and summarize it into a few paragraphs. Reading the summary takes under a minute.

Saves a ton of time which can then be used for more important tasks.

 

[Sonny Bonds]

My vacation so far has been terrible. I got a bigger apartment in the same building so I’ve just been moving my stuff for a week now.

I know the old tenants and they left a bunch of stuff. I took out 10 trash bags Sunday night between cleaning up both apartments. And I took apart and dumped a heavy ass desk that they left.

And I spent over an hour on the phone with Spectrum to get my internet set up. I’ve had to call at least 4 times

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

I got a bigger apartment in the same building so I’ve just been moving my stuff for a week now.

I hope y'all got elevators. We don't

 

[Sonny Bonds]

I hope y'all got elevators. We don't

I don’t either, breh

 

[Yinny]

My vacation so far has been terrible. I got a bigger apartment in the same building so I’ve just been moving my stuff for a week now.

I know the old tenants and they left a bunch of stuff. I took out 10 trash bags Sunday night between cleaning up both apartments. And I took apart and dumped a heavy ass desk that they left.

And I spent over an hour on the phone with Spectrum to get my internet set up. I’ve had to call at least 4 times

You should’ve complained to management and asked them to clean it or comp you for doing it. I’m also moving and they gave me a $75 credit because they hadn’t cleaned the unit prior to giving me the keys, but it’s also brand new and never been rented just shown a lot.

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

I don’t either, breh

ain't no shame in hiring movers for the big stuff if you ain't got partners in the area.

 

[aXiom]

These mofos understaffed for this project, but senior leadership is expecting to meet deadlines and I’m sitting here like yeah, this is a shytshow and you’re gonna need more people.

The product we bought had a devops team of at least 10 people, and you expect us to stand this shyt up with 3 and a half SREs and still still keep the DB and Dev teams happy while meeting fantasy these fantasy deadlines that was set by people who don’t understand this work Every day is blocker central and we just keep finding shyt in the code that’s not compatible with our environment and security policies. I really want this to succeed, but I’m done going the extra mile. Staff correctly

 

[Secure Da Bag]

and you’re gonna need more people.

I swear it's like none of these business people have heard of the most popular billionaire

Management swears they can contract everything out. Or inspire you to work more hours and not be exhausted.

 

[JLova]

It annoys me when senior leadership appear to be making it up as thry go along. Every timeline is aggressive. Forcing everyone to be working their asses off because some jackass is asking for the world on tight timelines because Thry cut too many people.