smiletolerantly

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[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 14 points 6 months ago (9 children)

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...

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 6 months ago

+1 for Kagi though. Kagi is awesome.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 44 points 6 months ago

See kids? This is why you never poke the pencil all the way up your nose.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 3 points 6 months ago

Ja, worauf ich raus will: bei mir ist das Glas gleichbedeutend mit "lokaler Kleinimker'

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Kann ja sein

Ist aber nicht der einzige lokale Imker, bei dem mit dieses Label untergekommen ist.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 8 points 6 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 16 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Weird way to say

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 4 points 6 months ago

All Söder does is spew bullshit and post bad tiktoks.

Hold on, we might just have found the first job LLMs actually can replace.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago (5 children)
[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

InfCloud. Works well with Radicale, and does contacts, too.

It's not pretty, but works very well for the 5/100 times I want to check through a browser instead of Calendar app / Thunderbird.

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