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The most shocking thing for me here is that one of the best mathematicians of our times has to do fucking random data to Excel gruntwork. What AI seems to be r
by mihaic 4y ago
The most shocking thing for me here is that one of the best mathematicians of our times has to do fucking random data to Excel gruntwork.
What AI seems to be replacing is mostly bullshit jobs in this case, that should have been handled by someone else.
- acuozzo 4y agoThis doesn't surprise me. Our species has proven itself to be exceptionally bad at finding the middle ground between giving individuals the freedom to self-direct and allocating resources efficiently at scale. These resource allocation problems exist at the national level, but also within even some of the smallest organizations and certainly everywhere between. Outside of FAANG, how many development teams really have a dedicated DevOps teammate? A DBA? A tester? A sysadmin? Hell, a sysop?! SWEs outside of FAANG are so accustomed to wearing dozens of hats that many would still consider the wisdom in "The Mythical Man-Month" a pipedream.
- Abroszka 4y agoEven in some of the FAANG that's not the case. Not sure about all of them though.
- thaw13579 4y agoThere's quite a bit of drudgery in academic positions, organizing/running meetings/conferences, editing journals, scrounging for reviewers, grant writing, and navigating all of the red tape of universities.
- dan_mctree 4y agoSomeone ought to start a charity to hire personal assistants for people like Terence Tao. Or get some government tech grant working on that. That would be probably one of the most efficient investments in progress you can get