soooo... my employer has gone "all-in" on "AI" development and has a mandate that all work be done "AI-first"
needless to say, I am ... not buying this
I've been at this job for nine years and seen a lot of really stupid shit (including being forced to do all my work on a windows laptop ~6mo ago) but this is the thing has pushed me over the line; I've stayed at this job because I was able (within limits) to do my best work, and now I'm being told I need to do work that is worse than that
no
I'm looking around for options; got a few job applications out, but if you're hiring for Clojure work (or, somehow, Lua???) let me know
I have a lot of friends who have been looking for work for a long time and finding basically nothing, so I get that this is a bad time to do this, but I just can't stay with things going like that
edit: found a job now, thanks for your support
I've been more or less stalling for a couple weeks since this policy was announced; just dragging my feet and smiling and nodding, implying that yes, eventually I'd get around to installing clod as per the new requirements
but today I had a meeting with my manager where she asked me directly and there was no more dancing around it, so I told her straight out that was never going to happen
so... we'll see how serious they are about this! but even if they don't get rid of me and grant me an exception, I can't handle it being everywhere around me and suffocating me
in my head I have plotted what I refer to as a "desperation curve" where the X axis is time and the Y axis is my willingness to work with technologies I know I will find unpleasant
and if I somehow could find a place that doesn't have any LLM use, that would be a powerful multiplier against that curve
is this realistic? who knows... would I prefer a langlemangle-free Java shop to my current circumstances? yeah, almost certainly, but I'm still holding out hope for a while that I don't have to
but eventually it enters the realm of possibility if the current search parameters go nowhere
@technomancy an old favorite. This prompted me to go to his site and click the random comic button a few times and I hit another one that... resonates https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-flight/