This sounds made up and actually written by an AI. "I now have an artificial intelligence software that helps me code", can't see anyone working in the field writing like that.
My Colleague Julius
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#62I've met a breed of career min-maxers adjacent to Julius that I have a hard time describing. Picture this: you join a new team with a senior engineer, call him Pete. Pete wrote the initial version of a new product, and you joined the team to take over and continue it's development. Pete is bona fide genius who can work miracles and he is always in the critical path of each new initiative, you are told. Once you open…
We tend to underestimate management's visibility in such situations. I had three senior engineers. One was your Pete (names are not real of course), throw him anything and he'll have something half-working in no time. Ugly but enough function to be called a proof of concept. One was the opposite, call him Paul, give him any problem and he would spend his whole life if possible researching every minute detail of the problem, similar domains and patterns etc. The last one, Mary, was the master combiner. She could collect all kinds of information, abstract and deep as in Paul's, quirky, dirty or non-existent as in Peter's and make them into something deeply practical and down to earth. Can you see how one could manage the work between these 3, all with their teams, in a way that everyone felt respected and admired for their approach? Same with the Julius of the post. Management might be aware of Julius weaknesses, but Julius could still bring a unique delivery skill-set that is required in the context of the overall team's work.
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#63This sounds made up and actually written by an AI. "I now have an artificial intelligence software that helps me code" , can't see anyone working in the field writing like that.
The author's native language is French, not English. The article doesn't sound AI-written at all.
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#64> I now have an artificial intelligence software that helps me code. Another that helps me search for information. A third one that summarises and writes my emails. I am not allowed to disable them Wtf, are places actually making this nonsense mandatory now?!
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#65This is not a comment about the main story in the article, but about a paragraph at the end: "My boss came to see me. He told me that the team’s productivity was dangerously declining. That we should use artificial intelligence more effectively. That we risked being overtaken by competitors who, without a doubt, were using the very latest artificial intelligence." This is the oldest scam in the book. A boss will neve…
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#66Fantastic, hilarious, and too relatable. Perhaps I am becoming overly cynical as I approach middle age, but it seems to me that this phenomenon exists because the people who have the ultimate decision making powers in businesses are business people. Businesses exist to serve the egos and goals of the people who run them - from their perspective things like technical competence and honesty are often secondary to achie…
The counter agreement often made is that if there was a better alternative to this then, like a company run by people who understand the fundamentals of what they actually make, then they would outcompete all these lazy bones, self-serving business people. My observation however has been that in fact many such companies have come, they have indeed dominated their competitors, only to later become infiltrated by the same business types they had once trounced.
It’s frustrating to simultaneously be able to perceive this and also do nothing about it. There are a lot of Juliuses out there. Still work doesn’t have to be one’s whole identity. If one happens to be there at the right place and at the right time then awesome. They probably got the experience of their lifetime. But if not then it’s ok! I think we can all do work that we’re proud of still, and it’s probably best to not get too worked up over this stuff. I don’t think Julius has that same option.
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#67This sounds made up and actually written by an AI. "I now have an artificial intelligence software that helps me code" , can't see anyone working in the field writing like that.
I take it you're not used to people whose primary language is French (or Italian, Spanish or Romanian) writing in English?
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#68There is an outdated term that I find perfectly encapsulates this: "goldbrick."
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#69TIL I'm Julius lol.
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#70If this is going to enter our lexicon as a short-name for this type of person, I'll point out that since "Julius" is originally latin derived, the pluralization should follow that of most/all latin nouns, and thus be "Julii".
In the subject, but e.g. 'Surely you're joking, Juli?' or 'I feel surrounded by Julios.' My Latin is pretty rusty, though.