IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.
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TJT
Mr. Poopybutthole
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Another interesting situation. Well two actually.
Job 1: My manager that was fired in January is becoming completely unhinged. Apparently the dude is sending drunken rants to our CIO, CFO, and other of our senior leadership. Tracking them down on their personal social media accounts. He also sends drunken rants to their spouses, grown children, and so on. Legal action is pending over the reason of his firing among other things.
Job 2: Some of the senior directors and other leadership got let go. We had a change of leadership last year and the new guy is all about aggressively automating dated healthcare practices wherever we can. I find this to be great and its giving me lots of interesting things to work on.
A few old salts with a decade or more here and with tons of tribal knowledge on archaic healthcare technologies and practices got mad about losing their positions of expertise. Causing them to get all disgruntled and start sandbagging what leadership is trying to accomplish. Seems a weird hill to die on.
Job 1: My manager that was fired in January is becoming completely unhinged. Apparently the dude is sending drunken rants to our CIO, CFO, and other of our senior leadership. Tracking them down on their personal social media accounts. He also sends drunken rants to their spouses, grown children, and so on. Legal action is pending over the reason of his firing among other things.
Job 2: Some of the senior directors and other leadership got let go. We had a change of leadership last year and the new guy is all about aggressively automating dated healthcare practices wherever we can. I find this to be great and its giving me lots of interesting things to work on.
A few old salts with a decade or more here and with tons of tribal knowledge on archaic healthcare technologies and practices got mad about losing their positions of expertise. Causing them to get all disgruntled and start sandbagging what leadership is trying to accomplish. Seems a weird hill to die on.
Khane
Got something right about marriage
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Let me know how automating the healthcare systems goes. It's a great area of opportunity but most healthcare entities, in my experience, reject change and upgrades.
At a previous job my team and I were trying to modernize the state of CTs medicare/medicaid electronic data trading systems and practices. The hurdle was all the hospitals and doctors offices in the various hospital networks refused to upgrade. Everything was still done with HL7 v2 over VPN via MLLP.
This was ~2016. And the Meaningful Use legislation designed to force these upgrades kept getting pushed back.
EHR data is a disaster in this country.
At a previous job my team and I were trying to modernize the state of CTs medicare/medicaid electronic data trading systems and practices. The hurdle was all the hospitals and doctors offices in the various hospital networks refused to upgrade. Everything was still done with HL7 v2 over VPN via MLLP.
This was ~2016. And the Meaningful Use legislation designed to force these upgrades kept getting pushed back.
EHR data is a disaster in this country.
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Phazael
Confirmed Beta Shitlord, Fat Bastard
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Automation is the new buzz word for useless managers to jerk off over when they read about it in Sky Mall Magazine. It CAN be tremendously beneficial, if you use proper planning and invest sufficiently into it. The issue is every company wants the end results and to say they are using "machine learning/AI" but none of them want to invest the time, effort, and money it takes to actually make it useful. My company is no different. They are trying to spin up a CHATGPT based helpdesk interface for end users but won't spend money on the technology or hire someone qualified to oversee it. Whats worse is they are getting the people most likely to be replaced (if it ever works) to fill out the dataset it is going to use and the people in charge are a committee of the usual useless middle manger oxygen thieves who abandon shit halfway through for the next shiny thing they can try to take credit for. So its doomed to failure and everyone is sandbagging on it because it runs counter to their personal interests. And I am the asshole for pointing this out to senior leadership, somehow.
Mist
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The problem with generative AI is that it is not automation. Automation does exactly what you want every time. Expected input gives expected output. Generative AI produces pseudorandom output, making it largely unfit for most enterprise applications aside from summarizing documents.
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Control
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Break
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I've about arrived at this conclusion too, having had a few discussions about it over the last 10 years that ultimately never went anywhere.
If you want to know if the manager is full of it or not, ask them for their use-cases (which they never have and probably don't know what they are) or what kinds of things they're looking to automate in general.
In my experience they won't have any idea on the first, but will regurgitate what some vendor slides said about capability but once they learn what it takes to properly define and build use-cases (so clueless managers up the chain have some idea what they're approving) plus building the resulting playbooks you'll never hear about automation from them again.
Or maybe my work places just suck Idk
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moonarchia
The Scientific Shitlord
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Probably not. Might do a more thorough job of finding bugs in what you write, though. If you want to learn a language/system the fastest way is to dive in. If you need a more structured learning environment then look for boot camps or classes at your local community college in that language. Or online classes.
TJT
Mr. Poopybutthole
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Use the AI to give you examples of how to correctly write code that does X. This will save you much time as you otherwise need to read lots of documentation to digest it.
If you don't even know the basics such as data types, loops, methods, and so on I suggest you start there. As these are the foundational elements of anything put to code.
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stupidmonkey
Not Smrt
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Nothing like a VP or someone in product saying machine learning should take care of something randomly. More terms that are now apart of the bullshit generator.
Identikit
Redneck Pornographer
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not really when it comes to GDscript, but possibly when it comes to using C# in godot.
The problem with GDscript and using AI to get answers is that godot recently updated from 3 to 4 and there are significant changes in how the language is used that LLMs havent picked up on as much as something like C# which has tons of historical information in relation to its use as a language.
so if you want to use AI to help you with GDscript, you will end up having to discern if the advice is good for what version of godot you are using really and use that version.
Identikit
Redneck Pornographer
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I might be able to help( I have made a few basic promotional/advertising games for some clients, and have made a few simple games of my own for fun) by no means an expert, but feel free to dm me.
ronne
Nǐ hǎo, yǒu jīn zi ma?
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My NDA/non-compete ended March 1st from my old job (as if it was actually enforceable), so I'm now technically a bit over a month in to my job search.
It's pretty bleak so far. I had a couple of early interviews at places that wanted way more Windows experience than I was expecting so those went nowhere. Had one with a college-associated business in financial metrics that I thought went super well, but they declined saying they went with someone else but would like to contact me in the future for a 'more senior' position they expect to open soon??? Maybe the mythical over-qualified thing I've heard about actually exists.
Decided against continuing the process with the weird cult up in Madison - the COL up there is somehow the same or higher than Chicago, and I don't particularly wanna move all the way up there to then spend 5 days a week in their Harry Potter campus with a bunch of 24 year olds or whatever. Maybe if by July I'm still not finding anything I'll call them back up, as they seemed pretty eager to assimilate me.
I'm scheduled to take the AFQT and go through MEPS with the Airforce by the end of this month, so we'll see if that goes anywhere realistic. Tho judging by the job market I'm seeing having secret/top secret clearance is such a fucking meal ticket it might be worth doing even if the work sucks for a few years.
It's pretty bleak so far. I had a couple of early interviews at places that wanted way more Windows experience than I was expecting so those went nowhere. Had one with a college-associated business in financial metrics that I thought went super well, but they declined saying they went with someone else but would like to contact me in the future for a 'more senior' position they expect to open soon??? Maybe the mythical over-qualified thing I've heard about actually exists.
Decided against continuing the process with the weird cult up in Madison - the COL up there is somehow the same or higher than Chicago, and I don't particularly wanna move all the way up there to then spend 5 days a week in their Harry Potter campus with a bunch of 24 year olds or whatever. Maybe if by July I'm still not finding anything I'll call them back up, as they seemed pretty eager to assimilate me.
I'm scheduled to take the AFQT and go through MEPS with the Airforce by the end of this month, so we'll see if that goes anywhere realistic. Tho judging by the job market I'm seeing having secret/top secret clearance is such a fucking meal ticket it might be worth doing even if the work sucks for a few years.
ToeMissile
Pronouns: zie/zhem/zer
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I can’t speak to the other services, but IMO for AF you get out if it what you put in. Seems like you’re going the enlisted route, no degree or desire to be an officer? Better money and career options.
ronne
Nǐ hǎo, yǒu jīn zi ma?
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This would be for a commissioned position yea, it still requires the entrance test tho.
8 weeks of OTS and then further training depending on what job I take. I'd graduate OTS as a captain.
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TJT
Mr. Poopybutthole
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Not sure if I mentioned it before. But this is an absolutely wonderful tool. Highly recommend.
www.warp.dev
Warp: Your terminal, reimagined
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