I work in enterprise architecture and the most annoying part of my job is telling dev teams to comply with policies and best practices, which are fully documented and yet ignored. I would love to have AI solution that could review a uml or a design document or a terraform script and write out responses.
I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone
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Re: I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone
#152And people wonder why a lot of those in the IT field have a hard time being respected.
Re: I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone
#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had a software engineering job where I clocked in and time was tracked. Pretty good deal for people who tend to overwork themselves.
In Austria (and I think in Germany it's the same), for most jobs, including IT, employees must track their working time for legal reasons, so I had to clock in and out via a device at the entrance like a factory worker, to prove to HR, accounting and the bureaucratic government institutions in charge of taxing me, that I'm indeed at my workplace 8h/day. One company I interviewed at had a work-time time tracking machi…
> and I think in Germany it's the same
It should be, but it’s not in most circumstances. (Industry is fighting it tooth and nail, all of a sudden unpaid overtime would be so much harder.)
Re: I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone
#154Ugh that subreddit is just a cesspool. Most of the stories are fake and it attracts the bottom feeders of society. People need work to feel fulfilled. I get that a corporate job may not meet that demand but this idea that you can just eschew any work and be mentally ok isn't true.
"People need work to feel fulfilled." I never thought I'd see Stockholm syndrome in the wild.
Are you kidnapped or held against your will by your employer?
Re: I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone
#155I had a prior job out of college where I automated the vast majority of the technical position I was in. It was a combination sys admin and data validation role for the government -- not really my interest, but it was after the economy melted down and finding a proper programming job was tough. Over the span of about a year, I had a set of scripts, batch jobs, and other forms of OS/database level automation that made most of the manual tasks we had obsolete.
Unlike the original article though, I went to my manager and bragged about it. My manager was ecstatic and had me deploy the same set of scripts to the entire team. I would now be in charge of coding it full-time and got to implement things like authentication, a UI, reports, a dashboard, and so on. I eventually left that job because I was desiring a more proper engineering role, but it was a good case of win-win for full-blown automation. It didn't replace any humans (though it certainly could have), but instead our management had use it to enhance the existing humans and have them scale.
Re: I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone
#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
People are unable to realize a script can be written because that's "not how teams work"? I'm very confused at what you're trying to say.
Imperfect analogies so please read between the lines....: Take a finance team, you have a group of specialists who don't really know what each other do, FP&A vs BM&A or Investor relations. However, they don't need to know what each other do because they can trust the person next to them to say, hey.. payroll is now automated, I have extra time now, what should I work on to improve things, is it fair to take advantage…
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Re: I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone
#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
Depends on if you care about other people I suppose. The West subscribes to capitalism as the modality to move society forward, so yes, till that changes, do think of the business imo.
You’re conflating different things. The business doesn’t really care about the person. The west as a whole subscribing to capitalism does not then lead to the things you are saying “if you care about other people”. There is no logic there.
There is a stock market, people invest in business. People use those investments to put their kids through schools. Profits are distributed to employees in coops, those funds are used to buy things from other people, etc etc etc etc etc, this moves society forward per the capitalistic philosophy. One individual not being forthcoming with the truth in a system like that, creates inefficiencies in the system, and has ripple effects across the whole system. Butterfly effect.
Business is just an implementation of a philosophy, it doesn't care about you, but the idea of business is to care for all, that is the theory and why we use the system. Sadly, it's gotten extremely fucked up over the last 100 years, and we end up with people on reddit doing stuff like this. Capitalism is broken, absolutely, but the redditer is still being intellectually dishonest about the win-win situation.
Re: I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone
#158These are fun to read. I laughed at the one where the guy shared a photo of his bong and TV setup at home. One of his major innovations was creating appropriately-named folders for his work. And seriously, a lot of businesses don't know how to get _that_ organized. They are good at other stuff. Also noteworthy IMO are the jobs you don't need to automate--just bring yourself, do your normal thing with baseline effort…
As far as I can tell from listening to stories from friends who aren't in tech circles, sorta halfway knowing how to use a computer still makes you a wizard in most non-tech offices. And the newer generations are only barely better than the old ones, on average, so that's not putting an end to that state of things. I'm talking, like, you understand how external drives are represented, know how to cut & paste files &…
Yeah, that's really the direction to look in--the people themselves, what they're expressing in their way of work, and how they perceive their value.
I used to do some psychometric testing for work and was mentored about "tech people" in terms of their/our psychology. When most people sort themselves by interest, they indicate a preference against technology, which can also be described as "novel organizations of things." But they also indicate against tech by indicating pro-other-stuff interests.
So you can still find lots of offices full of non-tech people where people are organized, but using yesteryear's tech, i.e. yesterday's organizations of things. Plus they are using their other strengths.
From a tech POV though, that inclusive view of others' strengths is sometimes overlooked, and it's an unfortunate truth that the tech-wise are somewhat naturally blinded to others' preferred leverage points in doing business.
For example, the ability to give responsive, personal customer service. That service may involve some tech people, but the person giving the service may be at a significant advantage if they don't have a tech background, and have some improvisational or emotional-spectrum talent, or other reasonable problem-solving tools where tech would otherwise fill the skill gap.
I always thought it was interesting stuff...
Re: I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone
#159This is like the dream. I feel like I would spend the time learning an instrument, or maybe do online learnings to maybe get another job I actually enjoyed doing. Can't even hate and hope things work out for that guy.
I learned to play the fiddle the past two years working from home during Xcode's abysmal compile times. Sadly my new M1 max whatever has solved that problem, ha!
Re: I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone
#160As someone who definitely agrees that people shouldn't have to work in poor conditions, I still cant help but feel that the anti-work stuff on reddit seems coordinated. Does anyone else get that feeling?
I get that feeling as well, fartcannon. The meteoric rise over the past year of the subreddit just feels artficial. I don't have any evidence outside of the a rapid increase of subscribers. I'm sure there is a large number of people with that sentiment out there, so I'd maybe put it at 40% or less that this is being coordinated by an external actor.
The whole sentiment around the subreddit really seems to be amplifying a class war attitude in the United States.
I remember reading an article (I think this was it [1]) about reddit getting manipulated by advertisers. Either posting about a product, or upvoting posts that were positive about a product and downvoting negative posts. Imagine what someone with a larger budget could do.
[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jaymcgregor/2017/02/20/reddit-i...