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I realize that sounds very low, but I think as long as I am exceeding the expectations of my team and director, which I am, that is all that should matter..
My job could be done by AI, but it would take a different kind of system than what we have. It would not put my career out of business by any stretch, but it would close off a pathway.
Realistically, I work from 0 to 12 hours a day according to the weather, and how passionate I am about the task at hand. I'd estimate that I work 3 hours a day on average, but it's a wild guess.
A good day is when there is a 2-3 hour uninterrupted slot and I can get about that much deep work done. But that only happens a few days of the month.
I work in a totally chaotic, mismanaged department of a major university. The total work time is about 3-4 hours per week of a 40 hours paid job.
I did not want the job initially due to my work ethics, my need of challenges, and low learning curve.
Now I am happy I took it. Life can be good. One can be good to oneself. Turns out I am in a happy spot.
The job allowed me to start a therapy and work on myself.
And it allowed me to fight for my daughter in front of court, and stop an evil attempt of child alienation from the side of the ex wife. Super dad mode = ON.
And it will allow me to restart my life from a safe position after a brutal couple of years.
If I knew that this job would be forever ... hell ... I'd take it.
AI (Copilot) hasn't particularly saved me time for actual work yet, but was working on a side project and it saved me hours of tedious repetitive stuff. It wasn't that complex but it was a lot of similar functions, and the first one it didn't help much with. The second it was able to get more of, and from then on it was hitting tab ~3 times to write the entire function, then go back and fix a word or two that needed tweaking. Probably would have been a lot of copy pasting, but it was able to change the naming and even some structure for me so it was still beneficial.
I don't use AI in my day to day (yet, probably) but I am bullish on it in general. I currently work ~8 hour days M-F, typical stuff. > Did the layoff wave push you to work more hours than expected? No. I am a top performer (not a self assessment, officially documented) so I figure I'll be the last to go.
> I figure I'll be the last to go False sense of security. Quite a few other things can take priority over being a top performer, when it comes to cost cutting.
I "work" 9 hours M-R, and 4 on F
I "work" about 1-2h per day
A friend of mine working as a deep learning engineer at one of the big tech companies is working her ass off due to fear of layoffs. She mentioned that their manager takes quiz! from them and gives them performance tests. The vibe is incredibly tense and except a few who are working on secret projects, the rest are left hanging in a looming lay-off round. Every day she works till late at nights or awake 5am to contin…
Managers need to be more Ted Lasso than Led Tasso.