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This I agree with, but one thing I think should be added. If you are over 50 years old (maybe 40), your job is probably in danger. Read up on Age Discriminati

by jmclnx 2y ago

This I agree with, but one thing I think should be added. If you are over 50 years old (maybe 40), your job is probably in danger. Read up on Age Discrimination if in the US. IBM is in the process if having a stealth firing, most people being let go are over 50: https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/18/ibm_job_cuts/ https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/18/ibm_job_cuts/ Personally, I still think AI is heading to a crash like the dot-com crash 20+ years ago.

axegon_ 2y ago
I can't say about the US. That's not so much of an issue here on the other end of the pond, if anything people are increasingly distancing themselves from the 20-30 age group. I've had my experience with them and a large chunk of them are insufferable. A notable example - one had a complete meltdown when he was told that go is not a low level language(and being the one that said it, I was his biggest enemy) :D It pains me to say this, but I agree with you on the subject of AI. I think people are wildly misusing it and creating yet another bubble. It is good at digesting and sifting through data but it's terrible at providing good solutions and people are using it for the latter. I've been actively using it for months at work specifically for sifting through large, completely unstructured documents and pull out the relevant data from them and it has done wonders. So much so that the management has invested in some beefy GPUs for the occasion. And by beefy I do mean BEEFY, coming from someone who owns 2 * 24GB VRAM nvidias for personal usage. I also feel like the day when new models become a rare and unexpected occurrences is not far.
fragmede 2y ago
If we presume that's true, other than socking away an emergency fund, and diversifying out of the stock market, what else are we to do? Something that large bursting is going to affect the rest of the economy, so there's no place to hide. The Cassandra effect, if you will.

by jmclnx 2y ago

axegon_ 2y ago

I can't say about the US. That's not so much of an issue here on the other end of the pond, if anything people are increasingly distancing themselves from the 20-30 age group. I've had my experience with them and a large chunk of them are insufferable. A notable example - one had a complete meltdown when he was told that go is not a low level language(and being the one that said it, I was his biggest enemy) :D It pains me to say this, but I agree with you on the subject of AI. I think people are wildly misusing it and creating yet another bubble. It is good at digesting and sifting through data but it's terrible at providing good solutions and people are using it for the latter. I've been actively using it for months at work specifically for sifting through large, completely unstructured documents and pull out the relevant data from them and it has done wonders. So much so that the management has invested in some beefy GPUs for the occasion. And by beefy I do mean BEEFY, coming from someone who owns 2 * 24GB VRAM nvidias for personal usage. I also feel like the day when new models become a rare and unexpected occurrences is not far.

fragmede 2y ago

If we presume that's true, other than socking away an emergency fund, and diversifying out of the stock market, what else are we to do? Something that large bursting is going to affect the rest of the economy, so there's no place to hide. The Cassandra effect, if you will.