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Re: Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office

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Post by kraftman »

koromak wrote: post #43

Seriously, are any of you "increasing output" with AI? I get like 10 good lines of code a day from Copilot. I don't even try ChatGPT anymore, as its only useful if you're writing boilerplate. Everything thats actually hard about my job requires the full context of the rest of the codebase, within repo and without, and architectural knowledge of the problems we're trying to solve. I read another post here yesterday th…

What I'm finding it most useful for is grokking some new subject rapidly, so the output multiplier is directly related to how well i know the subject im working on. At work, I know the tech stack pretty well so I'm not finding it that valuable, i use it to remind myself of bits and peices here and there.

In my free time ive been working in some areas and frameworks i dont know at all and the output increase really is crazy. i was playing around with pixijs and very rapidly had a basic UI cobbled together that would have taken me at least 4-5x longer if id had to read through different docs, blogs, etc. its making me much more willing to try new frameworks and ideas out that i wouldnt have before because of how easily i can get over blockers in my concept of how something works.

Re: Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office

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Post by surgical_fire »

koromak wrote: post #43

Seriously, are any of you "increasing output" with AI? I get like 10 good lines of code a day from Copilot. I don't even try ChatGPT anymore, as its only useful if you're writing boilerplate. Everything thats actually hard about my job requires the full context of the rest of the codebase, within repo and without, and architectural knowledge of the problems we're trying to solve. I read another post here yesterday th…

> Seriously, are any of you "increasing output" with AI?

Depends on what I'm doing.

Professionally, I'm finding it very good for a couple of things:

- Exploring frameworks and libraries for languages I'm already familiar with

- Writing documentation for code that I've written (I don't use this at my workplace to avoid leaking internal code, but I use it as a way to write small tutorials based on side projects I do on my own)

For writing code I find it very unreliable, even for boilerplate.

Re: Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office

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Post by UtopiaPunk »

xeromal wrote: post #83
tedivm wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your anecdotal story is kind of bullshit though. More than half the people I currently work with have children and their performance is similar to the ones who don't. I'm sure that one case was annoying for you, but your sample size is garbage.

I never claimed mine was a study. Just an observation. No need for a hostile response like yours.

You opened saying you are treading on "dangerous grounds" and then said dumb garbage. You made a sweeping generalization off of one little anecdote. As a working parent, I am upset with your mindset. Instead of supporting your fellow worker trying to get by in these precarious times, you use them as an example to drag down others? It's lazy and it's bullshit.

Re: Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office

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Post by xeromal »

UtopiaPunk wrote: post #94
xeromal wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I never claimed mine was a study. Just an observation. No need for a hostile response like yours.

You opened saying you are treading on "dangerous grounds" and then said dumb garbage. You made a sweeping generalization off of one little anecdote. As a working parent, I am upset with your mindset. Instead of supporting your fellow worker trying to get by in these precarious times, you use them as an example to drag down others? It's lazy and it's bullshit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Check out the "In Comments" section.

Re: Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office

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Post by pavon »

jkaplowitz wrote: post #21
exhibitapp wrote: post #12

Won't comment directly on the strange rant. But it highlights the reality that something has seriously changed since the pandemic. I have multiple employees that insist on staying home due to their dogs. The amount of discussion around employees' dogs is on another level now, partially due to the anxiety these dogs have when their owners go into the office. It's all very different than prepandemic, I for one never he…

Dogs that grew up during the pandemic likely have a lot more separation anxiety than dogs which grew up pre-pandemic, and therefore so do their owners because the dogs aren't used to it. Also, before the pandemic, workers probably didn't feel comfortable asking for or insisting on work from home, whereas it's been somewhat normalized now.

And dogs that had previously been used to their owners going into work got accustomed to them being home all day and needed time to adjust.

Before I was approved for permanent WFH, I was gradually increasing the amount of time I went into the office, in case I wasn't approved. It was clear after a few weeks that the one-month deadline we were given wasn't going to be enough time for the dogs to re-adjust. I think two months would have been enough if I kept it gradual, but then one day I got held up much longer than expected and my older dog had a freak-out and ripped the doggy door out of the door and then proceeded to rip off about 3 inches of (fiberglass shell, foam core) door surrounding the hole. It was almost a month after that incident until I could leave to do errands without her having anxiety.

I'm glad I didn't have to re-adjust her since she doesn't have much longer to live. I don't know what I'm going to do about the dog we adopted as a puppy during covid, who has never known anything else. I personally think hybrid is the worst of both worlds, but will start increasing my time in office once the older dog has passed so he can get used to me being gone for longer time stretches.

Re: Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office

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Post by nequo »

xeromal wrote: post #66
tedivm wrote: post #3

This title doesn't do it justice- I hope his rant about how working moms aren't fair to the company gets him sued.

I know these are dangerous grounds to tread on, but I do struggle with working parents sometimes. I understand having children does take time, but I've experienced a parent that ends up being available around 4 hours a day while they are the linchpin in a certain part of the process that prevents a job from being completed. They're slow to respond to messages, emails, and calls and sometimes async responses are just…

You write parents in plural at the beginning of your comment but your specific example is about one parent. Have you experienced this with multiple working parents?

Re: Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office

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Post by hammyhavoc »

oofta-boofta wrote: post #98
hammyhavoc wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whilst I'm an atheist myself, religious hate speech goes against https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Now that Twitter has removed protection for trans individuals in their hate speech policy, are people who use Twitter thus transphobic? It's a stretch and a broad stroke. Whilst I understand the sentiment, it's making a lot of assumptions. A lot of people simply follow x religion because that's what they were brought up with, but they aren't a religious extremist or bigot.

Look at the number of Muslims who drink alcohol for a solid example, despite it being forbidden. Personal ideology is exactly that—personal.

If someone commits an atrocity in the name of god, is everybody who practices that religion also a violent extremist who hates anyone gay or female?

Re: Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office

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Post by thomasjb »

jcutrell wrote: post #36
gedy wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree that some folks are a little weird about their pets, but after 3 years working from home, these animals do get trained to assume someone is around. Dogs shred stuff, etc.

Also, some people treat their inanimate cars with more loyalty and love than a pet, so it’s not really that weird.

A car, treated right, will last upwards of 100 years, whereas pets have a more finite lifetime. And all they really need is to be stored and used right, with a little maintenance work. Either case is an irrational idolatry though
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