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
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
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.
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.☠️
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
just use chatgpt for that
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
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.
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