Metadata
- Author: mataroa.blog
- Full Title:: I Will Fucking Piledrive You if You Mention AI Again
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/
- Finished date:: 2024-06-20
Highlights
I started working as a data scientist in 2019, and by 2021 I had realized that while the field was large, it was also largely fraudulent. (View Highlight)
What we do not have is the ability to trivially switch fields the moment the gold rush is over, due to the sad fact that we actually need to study things and build experience. (View Highlight)
Consider the fact that most companies are unable to successfully develop and deploy the simplest of CRUD applications on time and under budget. This is a solved problem - with smart people who can collaborate and provide reasonable requirements, a competent team will knock this out of the park every single time, admittedly with some amount of frustration. (View Highlight)
The only thing you should be doing is improving your operations and culture, and that will give you the ability to use AI if it ever becomes relevant. Everyone is talking about Retrieval Augmented Generation, but most companies don’t actually have any internal documentation worth retrieving. Fix. Your. Shit. (View Highlight)
am disgusted that my chosen profession brings me so close to these people, and that’s why I study so hard - I am seized by the desperate desire to never have their putrid syllables befoul my ears ever again, and must flee to the company of the righteous, who contribute to OSS and think that talking about Agile all day is an exercise for aliens that read a book on human productivity. (View Highlight)