mandymitchell.me
š³ļøāā§ļøš³ļøāšSoftware engineer & raconteuse. Probably autistic? My dog thinks I write cool code. https://mandymusings.com/ for my tech blog
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What a relief!
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I will not be the person who responds with a suggestion.
I will not be the person who responds with a suggestion.
I will not be the person who responds with a suggestion.
That sounds rough! š
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Are you able to share details about the magnitude of the budget needs?
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If you used a Windows computer prior to Windows 95, and if you used a modem to connect to the Internet, Trumpet is almost certainly what you used
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Or was it Trumpet WINsock?
I cannot remember, and I feel like it would dishonor the memory of that era to effortlessly look it up
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In a couple of weeks, Iāll be starting my fourth post-university tech job (after ~21 years), and this was a timely reminder to trust my instincts as I go into it. Thanks!
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This!
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For what itās worth, I think itās pretty cool that someone would be wired that way.
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Excited for you!
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So something like āreverse demisexualā?
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When helping friends make hard decisions like which job offer / college admission to accept, Iāve sometimes had them flip a coin to get the result, then ask them about the feeling in the pit of their stomach when they ādecideā that way.
There might be something to this!
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Thanks for this recommendation! I particularly appreciated that you mentioned the proposed solutions in the book, as Iāve been looking for discussions that talk about *how* to move forward with genAI, rather than simply rejecting the options that are being pushed.
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DMs are open if you want to chat more privately about any of this
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Also, just in case itās ambiguous: I donāt mean that itās a lot to *share*: Iām glad you did!
What I mean is that I can feel the weight of it across the Internet, and I can only imagine how oppressive it must be to experience it firsthand.
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Wow. Thatās a lot to sit with. š
I know that we havenāt interacted a *ton* on here, so my voice may not have much wait, but I can tell that youāre a really special, thoughtful person, and you *deserve* to have that self discovery because it is *so* powerful.
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I guess for you, the āaā in agender could stand for āapatheticā? š¤·š¼āāļø
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I have a week of funemployment coming up soon, and I may try to write my own take on this thatās grounded in a wider variety of engineering activities.
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Iām hopeful š¤š¼ that thereās a new wave of AI tools around the corner that focus on helping humans be more reflective, thoughtful people, rather than doing work for them.
And this provides some possible direction to how engineers can continue to find joy and growth post AI.
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Iāve been hearing this from a lot of folks, and itās a big concern for me, too; thanks for sharing!
Have you come across @hazelweakly.meās excellent hazelweakly.me/blog/stop-bu...?
Her examples are motivated by incident response but would easily apply to coding assistants.
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You know, itās that implant that some people get in order to keep their heartbeat regular
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I wonder if the German language has invented a term to describe this phenomenon
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I mean, I probably *have* more, but thatās the first.
Go Go Curry is pretty great
Definitely try Abura Ramen
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Oh wait, did you want recommendations other than food? š
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Thanks!
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Not sure if complimentary orā¦ š
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Then I wonāt repeat the recommendation! š
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I can understand where youāre coming from, and I suspect that weāre coming from sufficiently different places that it would be difficult to gain much understanding from each other in this medium
Thanks for engaging respectfully!
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Iām also not saying that you *do* believe this, but it seems to be the implication of your question. Iām happy to entertain clarifications!
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Any economic system will have self absorbed assholes, and they will often be very powerful.
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Note that I said, āinsofar as it has oneā. If you believe that there is no one engaged in capitalism that is trying to engage it with a thoughtful utilitarian approach, then we wonāt have much to say to each other.
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I donāt quite know what I mean by this or if I quite believe it yet. Itās a loosely held hand wave towards a hypothesis
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Hereās my walk/shower thought:
A big reason folks with deeply held views on the ethics of genAI use arenāt getting traction in industry is they are unable/unwilling to translate their thoughts into utilitarianism, which is the native ethical framework of capitalism, insofar as it has one
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Have you been to Japan before?
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The pacing is such that I havenāt been able to finish a full viewing in over a decade, but Nadesico has *so* much heart.
Based on your online persona, I think youād really love it
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I also think that the current AI tools have been built to appeal to folks who donāt necessarily want to think hard because those groupsāand those marketsāhave historically been much larger.
Which makes sense from a product perspective.
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Iām sure that there will still be jobs for both groups, but many folks will find that theyāre not currently at the right *kind* of job for the future, resulting in displacement.
And I think weāll also eventually find tools appealing to Philosophers.
Weāre just in a āchasm of suckā right now.
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Philosopher engineers find the current generation of tools repellent because they offer no way to understand the world better.
While Pragmatic engineers are just happy to find their jobs made easier.
This often results in the Philosophers feeling betrayed by the Pragmatists
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My hypothesis is that the nature of software engineering has tended to make the first two groups associate more than they have in the past without needing to care about the distinction.
Gen AI is more starkly revealing whoās in each group, and itās uncomfortable.
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Iāve been thinking about this, too, particularly from the perspective that in any generation, there are
- folks who want to think hard (philosophers, &c)
- folks *willing* to think hard for socioeconomic gain
- folks who wonāt think hard
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Torment Nexus, &c, &c
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I need to know more about these stellar bagels. Are they really made of stars?
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I think the āshow badgeā option is specifically to show *you* the badges for others.
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Also: me when starting a new side project
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Oof