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
ended up getting a job offer earlier this week, so I gave my notice at my "you must use AI for everything" employer!
I didn't think I'd be able to hit all 4 of my goals of "doesn't require AI", "not fintech/crypto/military/ads", "fully remote", and "uses Clojure" but somehow I did, feel pretty lucky about the job I found
will be starting at Metabase in 2 weeks
@technomancy Congratulations on the new role! The company you're leaving has no idea what they're giving up, whilst I'm sure your new employer will be thrilled to have you on their team.
@technomancy 😯 congrats! And…I think I’ll be sending in an application there myself, those are my ideal criteria as well!
the new job told me to spec out a laptop, tell them how much it would cost, and then they'd send a one-time credit card to cover it
so I put together a thinkpad T14, nothing too ostentatious, but 32GB of RAM, half a TB, whatever, and let them know the price
two days later I go back to that tab and there's a popup, "sorry, the selected configuration is not available any more"
apparently this model is now only sold with 16GB, the 32GB option is just ... completely gone
fuck Sam Altman