Technomantics™

Mid-level engineer at a major cloud provider got called into a "role evolution discussion" yesterday afternoon Manager pulled up a dashboard comparing his output to an AI agent over 90 days. 47 tickets closed by him. 312 tickets closed by the agent. Average resolution time: him 4.2 hours, agent 23 minutes Code quality scores: him 7.8/10, agent 8.4/10 after review The agent worked 24/7. Never took PTO. Never had family emergencies. Never pushed back on unrealistic timelines. His manager showed him the cost breakdown: his fully loaded compensation $165k annually, agent operational cost $4,200 per month "We value your contributions," manager said, "but we need to discuss your path forward in this new paradigm" Translation: 30 days to find another role internally or take the voluntary separation package He's been there 6 years. Owns the authentication service. Thought domain expertise mattered. Turns out the agent already documented his entire decision tree. Screen recordings of every debugging session. His Slack conversations became training data. Two junior contractors in Romania now maintain his service using his own troubleshooting playbook The "evolution" meeting lasted 12 minutes His badge still works. Slack still pings. But he's walking dead and everyone knows it The agent that replaced him doesn't even have a name. Just "Agent-Auth-001" in the ticketing system Six years of expertise. Condensed to prompts. Executing faster than he ever could But sure, keep telling people AI is just a tool

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@ChoochSkookum Domicile Systems Engineer

Refer to a stay at home wife as a home engineer. Start calling household tasks home engineering. This will solve the branding crisis and increase the birthrate.

@PathOfMen_ How is one supposed to have that Post Note Clarity to solve an important design issue?

Good thing to reflect on

Classic ... Chuck Norris meme

@timdavies_uk 100k? 20 years ago the estimation for 1 child to 18 yo was 250k. Has to be like 700k now.

Younguns, listen to us elders.

@yacineMTB Um... Many segmentation, AI, gamedev and many other things use it, and I think it's Linux version.

pytorch is over. it's done. no one is using it anymore. keep up

@davidoflagos111 If you can explain things well enough to convince me the logic and facts aren't working for something, great! Debate me on it. Perspective, Intent, Perception.

if you get talked about but never confronted, your energy is powerful.

@TailosiveTech YT has ads?

Cable TV was $100 a month with 50% ads. YouTube is free with ads, but for $15 a month you can remove them. It’s not that bad.

@Mlu__N2 Please don't do this. Some people have insane grip strength and will break the jar and slice their hands or wrists up. Not fun to clean up and not bleed out.

Sometimes the ego is stronger than muscles.

Karen in HR swung by my office this morning Asked if I'm joining the Employee Engagement team-building session this afternoon I said "what is it" She said "an escape room" I said "what time" She said "5pm" On a Friday An escape room At 5pm On a Friday The irony of trapping employees in a room they have to solve their way out of at the exact hour they've been trying to escape all week was apparently lost on her I said "no" She said "it's mandatory" I said "so is reading the policy before enforcing it but here we are" She said "it's about building team culture" I said "I already spend 50 hours a week with these people. If we haven't built culture by now, a padlock and a flashlight aren't going to fix it." She said "your attitude is part of the problem" I said "my attitude built the Q2 forecast in two days. What has the escape room built." She didn't answer She left a flyer on my desk I used it as a coaster At 4:58 I packed my bag The analyst saw me leaving He said "you're not going?" I said "I have somewhere to be" He said "where" I said "home" He looked confused Like the concept of leaving at 5 on a Friday was something he'd only read about I said "you should try it sometime" Got in the car My wife called She said "are you coming home?" I said "I escaped" She said "from what" I said "the escape room" She said "you didn't go did you" I said "I didn't need to. I solved it from my office. The answer was the door." She laughed First time she's laughed at something I said in weeks I'm counting that Plz fix. Thx. Sent from my iPhone

That is why after working at EA, I negotiate/inform my employer "I will give you a solid 9 or 10 hours, but I am out at 4pm. Unless you pay me appropriately to be on call and I have agreed to it, you will pay for that phone. Otherwise, I am not taking my computer home unless sic/weather.

@elonmusk Misread.tiny font size as "chubbify anything", and could not stop laughing. I mean Grok has abilities, but damn.

You can Chibify anything 😂

@teslaownersSV Any web browser actually.

Grok is the most important tool and resource I have on my iPhone.

We’ve hit a last-minute issue with Xbox certification that is preventing today’s release. It's coming and it is WORTH the wait. We’re actively working with Microsoft to resolve it as quickly as possible and will share a new release timing once we have it locked. We know this is disappointing — it is for us too — but we want to make sure everything is right before it goes live. Create Mutate Dominate Mutant Football League 2 #videogames #football #xbox

@gaughen Try @grok

I didn't realize how hilariously bad artificial intelligence was until tonight, when I asked it about something I'm an expert on. I asked it about zoning laws in Pennsylvania and the AI hallucinated case law that doesn't exist. Silicon Valley wants us to rely on this slop? 😬

@RubenRetro_PC In my head, still till this day, when I know I have sent off a bug report that will take a dev a day or two to fix and another day or so for us/QA to regress, which pushes the insane schedule to begin with, a little further out, I hear Tanya say "I got a present for ya".

#CommandAndConquer (1995) — where RTS hooked us for good 💾⚔️

@ThrillaRilla369 You do not ever own real estate.

The fact that you can own land, build a home, and pay off a loan but still lose it to property taxes should be Illegal.

Chuck Norris didn’t die… death just finally got his permission. RIP to one of the greats 🕊️