It honestly seems like people have forgotten what all tech entails with the rise of generative AI.

Like holy shit man, people (at my company at least) now think you can write a program to control what is essentially your entire database system, security and business analytics with chatgpt.

Maybe I’m just not meant for this and this is the norm. But it’s taken me like 2 months to get a handle on three different types of API and program documentation. And I’ve also been doing like sys admin work too.

But three jobs in, and I’m starting to realize this is exactly what companies want. Because why pay multiple people for work in a department when they can just offload everything to one person and pay them nothing and know that the economy is so fucked that you’re basically trapped

Like I integrated one system to another for my senior project in undergrad and I had a little help on that from another business. But now I’m doing it all alone and being expected to work at super speed at the same time

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    Maybe I’m just not meant for this and this is the norm.

    Do your 40 and go home. If you can’t finish what they’re assigning that’s your manager’s problem and you should tell them you need help. Apply, apply, apply. Best time to get a job is when you have a job.

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      Boss has actually gargled the corporate kool aid and truly believes he can use chatgpt to generate a job posting that isn’t laughably divorced from reality

      Lmao he didn’t tell me I’d be developing the framework for system interfacing on the front and back end for 60K

      And it’d be somewhat of another thing if our department wasn’t just me and my manager. That seems to be a pattern of mine

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        Boss has actually gargled the corporate kool aid and truly believes he can use chatgpt to generate a job posting that isn’t laughably divorced from reality

        Oh yeah, I completely believe it. Various engineers on my team including the Seniorest Engineer boss and Manager boss frequently say delusional AI stuff. So does pretty much every VP that gives a town hall.

        And it’d be somewhat of another thing if our department wasn’t just me and my manager. That seems to be a pattern of mine

        Your manager is crazy. Do your best within the 40 hours you have. I bet everything is going to be an emergency from here on out.☠️

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          I’m not sure how to phrase it, but you still have to ask the right prompt if we’re going that route. And even so, it’s just going to scrape and learn off of some preexisting stack overflow post that is marginally better to begin with

          I fear this is the future and why those in tech should think about going full Luddite pretty soon

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          Well that’s the first step, then he wants me to schedule all the systems to communicate with each other. Then we’ll get a database and I’ll be asked to develop and code all of the objects there

          Idk like I can do it, but I would at least like to be allowed to develop a plan since there is no infrastructure in place whatsoever. It just seems like a functioning organization would have this planned out with a team

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            It just seems like a functioning organization would have this planned out with a team

            the purpose of a system is what it does. maybe it’s not so much that the organization is dysfunctional, nor that it’s functional in a way that would need this planned out with a team but didn’t do that for some reason. maybe it’s functioning correctly to leave this unplanned and without a team.

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              It just doesn’t seem like they care about this department at all. But they do care about getting the data to please shareholders and think that happens magically

              Then they’re shocked why excel keeps crashing when they try to use it as a database lmao

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      Best time to get a job is when you have a job.

      Wish I had this sentence imbued into my soul when I quit my last job.

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    Maybe I’m just not meant for this and this is the norm

    It’s not. Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of people who can do what your employer asked but they live breathe and think code and their career. Like read entire textbooks/research papers in free time, comment on Hacker news dedicated

    Everybody wants a 10x coding rockstar but nobody wants to pay a coder 10x like a rockstar

    Blame the passionate people who live to work and pour their entire life into bootlicking the company because all they know is to touch machines and not grass

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    Maybe I’m just not meant for this and this is the norm.

    Do your 40 and go home. If you can’t finish what they’re assigning that’s your manager’s problem and you should tell them you need help. Apply, apply, apply. Best time to get a job is when you have a job.