ann-arcana

Queen of Burgers 🍔

Writer, game designer, engineer, bisexual tranthing, FFXIV addict

OC: Anna Verde - Primal/Excalibur, Empyreum W12 P14

Mare: E6M76HDMVU
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Most organizations cannot ship the most basic applications imaginable with any consistency, and you're out here saying that the best way to remain competitive is to roll out experimental technology that is an order of magnitude more sophisticated than anything else your I.T department runs, which you have no experience hiring for, when the organization has never used a GPU for anything other than junior engineers playing video games with their camera off during standup, and even if you do that all right there is a chance that the problem is simply unsolvable due to the characteristics of your data and business? This isn't a recipe for disaster, it's a cookbook for someone looking to prepare a twelve course fucking catastrophe.

my "engineering lead" can't even write fucking Dataweave without ChatGPT to hold his hand, and that is exactly the fucking problem.

Of course our organization is a train wreck, when no one knows how to build anything anyone will actually use, because simple questions about how any of our ridiculous fucking jungle of pointless microservices work are known by no one, and you can't even make a fucking HTTP request in our stack without it hitting 3 dozen services to do ... something, no one's really quite sure.

And yet they let one of our only two full-time senior engineers waste company time build a fucking chatbot demo we can't use anyway because it violates our security policy by design?

This industry is a fucking shitshow. I didn't honestly realize how bad it was here, I thought American engineers were just spending too much time on Twitter, but no. After three years back in Americaland, I understand why y'all are so angry all the goddamn time.

None of you fuckers know how to run a tech organization in the least, and the few who do, aren't even allowed in the goddamn room. Instead, everything in tech is run by aging neofascists who think they're a tech expert because they know how to find the Terminal app in MacOS, signing 20 year contracts for shit like Mulesoft because the sales rep paid for their beers at an Agile Seminar™.

The last goddamn thing you fuckers need is to chain yourselves to Sam Altman's black box full of monkeys on typewriters.

34% of companies report that generative AI specifically has been assisting with strategic decision making? What the actual fuck are you talking about? GPT-4 can't even write coherent Elixir, presumably because the dataset was too small to get it to the level that it's at for Python3, and you're admitting that you outsource your decisionmaking to the thing that sometimes tells people to brew lethal toxins for their families to consume? What does that even mean?

These people should not even be trusted with dinner forks.


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i think a lot about how, during a design session at work when we were asked to come up with user profiles for the thing we wanted to use, including profile pictures, i went ahead and grabbed a picture of a cartoon character for the one i was working on. my supervisor went to midjourney and had midjourney generate the profile picture for her user profile instead.

or when, for the last major event i attended before leaving the job--which is an arts organization that professes to use the arts to help youth--they made the major poster for the event by using, you guessed it...midjourney. it made the ugliest looking arcade machine i have ever seen, with non-functional coin slots, blurred and buttons that bled into each other, and all sorts of other nonsense that screams "THIS WAS MACHINE GENERATED", when they had literal young artists that they could've hired on or commissioned to do the work.

or when i was invited to a luncheon with the ceo (middle aged snotty british guy who hasn't actually done any arts teaching in decades) and had to categorically try to dissuade him from even remotely trying to get the kids to work with generative tools or biptobullshit because of how inherently useless the entire thing is.

it's truly absolute fuckery.

I was goin to make the analogy that using image generators in the classroom is like letting the art students just buy their assignments on Fiverr…

… but then I realized part of why shit like mid journey took off is because apparently a whole lot of people really could use a crash course in how to commission artists, considering how fucking rarely it even occurs to them as an idea.

I hear my colleagues talk about how they've used chatgpt to generate tests and report card comments as if we aren't teachers who want more stringent plagiarism policies from our admin and I want to scream.

Stuff like this makes me feel better about my decision to take my time looking for a job instead of just hoping back into whatever

Because I'd bounce out of a place like that so fast, I'm incapable of dealing with BS like that.

It's bad. It's so bad. And my company is pushing it hard, and I just ... there is no reason for this thing to even exists. It's not "low-code" enough for non-coders to be able to use it, but it's too visual-oriented to be pleasant at all for real coders. Even my boss admitted that half the time he just ignores the visual front end and just edits the raw XML because it's easier to follow.

It's also buggy as shit; I have been on this job nearly a year and I still can't build most of our apps locally, because the dependency management is tied into their own stupid proprietary Maven servers that constantly just ... don't work.