I feel this. I relatively recently pivoted into dev work for my career. I really enjoy it because we haven’t forced AI into our workflows… Yet. We had a couple devs run an experiment to see who could finish an app first, where one generated as much as they could and another did it all manually. It wasn’t even close. The manual job was faster to completion and good.

Unfortunately for me, my time is being split and I’ve been tasked to upskill on all of the different automation and AI tools that we have, because dumbass VPs drank the Kool aid, bought shit, and didn’t hire experience to configure and run those tools. I’ve been reading so much garbage trying to master copilot studio, and honestly it’s the worst product I’ve ever had to work with. I’m going to be having a heart to heart with my manager in the near future, and if I’m still stuck on the AI shit, I’m bouncing. I’ll use what time I have to bolster my dev skills and leaving. If I can’t find a dev job, it looks like I’ll be pivoting my career again, and I’ve been thinking something like electrician. Honest work, not has hard on the body as say construction, and I feel it could still be mentally engaging compared to some other trades.

God speed on your future endeavors. Fuck AI.

I’m not an electrician, but I have a relative that is. You nailed it. We’ve got a couple DCs going up near by, and he was asked to commit to a 2 year commitment for just one of them, working exactly the hours you said. He agreed because I think they are paying double time for all OT, and that’s good money. They asked if he wanted to sign on for the other DC but he declined for the obvious time reasons. It’s definitely had an effect on available workers for other projects since seemingly all hand are on deck.

I’m not familiar with the architecting process, but I can absolutely see how AI will be, if not already, involved with generating plans. It will shit something out faster than anyone could create it, but it will lose that value in review and the inevitable mistakes that make it through. AI is a cancer

Fuck bots.

I have a good friend that is a cardiologist in the air force. Joined the military when he got into med school to cover his tuition and the get guaranteed residency. He’s never been deployed over seas, never been in a war area, and never designed a process or item that has led to an indirect killing. An exception could be if he saved someone that went back to kill someone, but that would be true for all doctors military or not, so that’s not a valid comparison.

There are many military jobs that are simple office jobs like accounting. Not everyone of them is linked to battle.

If you think these more mundane jobs indirectly lead to military related casualties, you better start hating on your local grocery store, because odds are they have given supplies to a soldier that eventually indirectly killed someone. Or probably any public service a soldier could use, because indirectly, that may help the soldier kill someone.

Legally it’s the Gulf of Mexico. This is one of those hills I will die on where I will never call it the Gulf of America. Fortunately for me it never comes up, but if I were a student and was taught the wrong thing, I would correct the teacher and never fall in line. There’s right and wrong, and Gulf of America is factually wrong.

Are the adults consenting or is it unwanted? Do you know for sure whether it’s unwanted or not? Just because you disagree with it doesn’t inherently make it bad, but if it’s not consentuel then it is bad. If the female needs assistance, then you can help out, but if she’s fine with it, then it’s not your business.

It sounds like your inferring a lot in this. Maybe she’s just kind and has a flirtatious personality. If she’s just being overly nice and you think she’s coming on to you, just don’t reciprocate and live your life until it comes to a head. None of the details you’ve provided are enough for anyone to know your situation well enough to know whether or not she’s into you. It’s very possible she likes your company, conversation, or just enjoys being around you. That’s just normal behaviour for someone that enjoys someone else.

If she’s makes physical advances or makes statements that are inappropriate, then you have something that you can respond to, politely, to defuse the situation and clear the air. Don’t lead her on and be flirty yourself. It’s possible you have an addictive personality that you’re unaware is affecting her.

DO NOT TALK TO HER FRIENDS ABOUT THIS! That is easily one of the dumbest things you can do. How do you think that would play out? I wouldn’t talk to a supervisor for a similar reason. If she starts crossing lines or getting damn close, then have a civil conversation with her.

Just live your life, and cross that bridge when it’s an issue. It more sounds like you’re annoyed by her. If you enjoy her company, then don’t burn that bridge by doing something dumb.

How big are you? I’ve got a buddy that is > 500lbs. He struggles to walk a city block. If you’re not clinically obese, walking an hour shouldn’t be difficult. As others mentioned, if your in reasonably good health, go to a doctor.

Some default to those positions because we live in a misogynistic society that promotes that thought. Everyone of my closest friends and last couple of bosses are male and the primary chefs I. Their households. My wife usually takes out the trash, recently set mouse traps, cleared one, but I usually do the hair job. Not because I’m a man, but because hair is gross and my wife doesn’t deal well with slimy drain hair. This idea of “pink job” and “blue jobs” (my label not yours) is antiquated and bad.

Unfortunately the decision makers / lawmakers are a slimy bunch that are good at propaganda.

It’s unfortunate and I’m embarrassed by my fellow countrymen. The US certainly has not often been on the right side of history, but in the here and now, I’m truly disgusted by it all.

If Trump didn’t have a playbook I wonder if he could have accomplished the same tyranny he has.

I’m in the US Virgin islands at the moment on a trip, and I had a good conversation with a taxi driver. Tourism is way down and they are all just as disgusted and feel just as helpless as the rest of us. It’s still a US territory, but anecdotally his shit is flinging on everyone.

There have been many horrible events, but recency bias, I would be interested in what if Hitler never came to power, there was no WWII, and no Holocaust. Would his failure to forge a path to power have prevented many of today’s happenings and not put the US as the top world power for decades, or would we still have ended up here? Israel and Palestine would likely be different, nukes wouldn’t have been dropped, and maybe the Soviet union wouldn’t have collapsed. I’m not a history guy, so maybe all of this is off base. Again, certainly worse things in history that if changed would have reshaped the world, but this is definitely not a small thing affecting us today.

Accurate.

I heard that wolves will draw pet dogs away from their homes to isolate them and hunt them. If that’s true, then I don’t think that we want this picture to be real.

At least in the US, we’re at will employment. So while we may not be able to forced to pee in a cup, we can and will be terminated if we don’t comply.

Most places that have heavy machinery or manufacturing have formal drug policies with random testing. I have a relative that’s an electrician and he’s been randomly selected and had a coworker fail a test. Instead of firing the guy outright,they gave him an option to go to some class instead. He quit and changed careers given that choice.

I’ve never complained to get someone moved, but there are plenty of people that I didn’t/don’t like that I still have to work with. I will maintain a positive working relationship with those people by being nice.

I don’t don’t fit the mould of these ladies you’re talking about, but it could be a similar motive assuming they are aware that your are aware that they are the reason you moved. If they don’t know that, sometimes distance can help make bad relationships amicable. Again anecdotally, I’ve worked with people who’s work I don’t approve of, but they are fine people. Not working directly with them allows me to enjoy time with them.

Without the context omitted for why they complained about you, we can’t really offer fair judgement. Giving you the benefit of the doubt, you can see my above for possible explanations.

That must be one helluva water source to get it to cross fork tines.

As a dev that recently transitioned from a decade of sys admin experience, to two years of ServiceNow admin/developer/et all, to now full stack development, I have found AI useful for somethings. I asked it how to do a thing, and it regurgitated a bunch of code that didn’t do what I was looking for, however, it did give me a framework for what files I needed to modify. I then put nose to the grindstone and write all of the rest of the code myself, researching the docs when needed, and I got it done.

For me, if I use AI to assist in something code, I always type everything out myself whether it’s right or not, because like taking notes, typing it out does help learn what I’m doing, not just finding a solution and running with it. I’ve disabled most of the auto complete copilot garbage in Visual Studio because it would generate huge blocks of code that may or may not be correct, and the accept button is the tab key, which I use frequently. I still have some degree of auto complete for single lines, but that’s it.

My advice would be to use AI as a prompt to get ideas or steer direction, but if you want to get better at coding and problem solving, I would suggest trying to find solutions yourself because digging through docs will be far more beneficial to your growth. AI does a good job of helping fill the gaps in packages or frameworks when your ignorant to all of the functions and stuff, but striving to understand them instead of relying on unreliable tools will make you a much better developer long term

I work next to a former pastor. He’s the most based religious person that I’ve met, and he’s imo what Christianity should be about. His big thing is your relationship with God is between you and him. This guy isn’t here to judge, and knows that it’s not his place. He mostly believes that if you’re a good person you’ll get to heaven.

I don’t agree with his religious views, but we can comfortably discuss philosophically about religion. More Christians should be like him and not like the fanatics and hypocrites.