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Do I belong in tech anymore? - On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal. (ky.fyi)

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[–] uuj8za@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

Exactly what I'm feeling... I don't know of any companies that aren't drinking the koolaid. My friend recently got laid off. He suspects it was because it was constantly pushing back on AI slop from other engineers.

I've been skipping the AI questions on recent company surveys... a few days ago, my manager directly asked me for "my thoughts on AI" during our 1:1... kinda freaked me out... I didn't say anything bad about AI, but I also wasn't gushing over how much I love AI (I hate AI)... I feel like they're watching me a little more closely now... I'm going to start answering that I love AI on our surveys now... 😢

I don't feel like they genuinely care about discovering if AI works. The AI questions are usually like: "Do you like AI?" and the answers are like "A: Yes", "B: FUCK YES", or "C: omg please more AI!"