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That dude is a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, doesn't need your "resume driven" label, his resume is good enough already. Why don't you accept it as, dud

That dude is a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, doesn't need your "resume driven" label, his resume is good enough already. Why don't you accept it as, dude is experimenting and learning new tool, how cool is that, if this is possible, what else can I build with these tools?

supriyo-biswas 10mo ago
The pressure at those levels is even higher, as it is an unsaid expectation of sorts that LLMs represent the cutting edge of technology, so principals/DEs must use it to show that they're on the top of the game.
- throwaw12 10mo ago
  fair, but it doesn't mean some of them are genuinely experimenting and figuring out interesting ways to use LLMs, some examples I personally love and admire * simonw - Simon Willison, he could just continue building datasette or help Django, but he started exploring LLMs * Armin Ronacher * Steve Yegge and many more
- andy99 10mo ago
  No idea if this is true but very sad if it is. This is a great argument for the concept of tenure, so experts can work on what they as experts deem important instead of being subject to the whims of leadership. I, probably naively pictured Distinguished Engineer to be closer to that, but maybe not.
  - yolo3000 10mo ago
    It's in the career framework of most big techs to use AI this year, so everyone is doing it to hold on to their bonuses.
  - RevEng 10mo ago
    Sadly, yes, it's true. New AI projects are getting funded and existing non-AI projects are getting mothballed. It's very disruptive and yet another sign of the hype being a bubble. Companies are pivoting entirely to it and neglecting their core competencies.
devsda 10mo ago
May be not resume driven. But hearing MS and AI, I can't help but wonder if this is result of one of those mandates by "leadership" where everyone is forced to come up with a AI use case or hack.
- throwaw12 10mo ago
  isn't this is exactly the point of innovation and mandates? "leadership" or real leaders, want people to experiment a lot, so some of them will come up with novel ideas and either decide to build it on their own and get rich or build internally and make company rich. Not always, but in many cases when someone becomes rich with innovation, it is probably because there was a benefit to a society (excluding gambling, porn, social media addictions)
  - stoneforger 10mo ago
    Because there was a benefit for some shareholder somewhere, maybe.
    - bdcp 9mo ago
      It's insane to expect them go rouge and not benefit the company in some sense
bitwize 10mo ago
Oh he's from Microsoft? That makes malarkey like this track so much more.
weird-eye-issue 10mo ago
That sounds exactly like the type of person that would care about their resume.
greatgib 10mo ago
Currently Microsoft is eliminating a lot of the useless fat in redundancy plans. So the crappy "resume driven" thinkg might be actually needed.
zwnow 10mo ago
Microsoft (the company with no noteworthy accomplishments within the past decades) is a metric for a resume being good now? All they do is buy out companies and make a already finished product theirs.

supriyo-biswas 10mo ago

The pressure at those levels is even higher, as it is an unsaid expectation of sorts that LLMs represent the cutting edge of technology, so principals/DEs must use it to show that they're on the top of the game.

throwaw12 10mo ago
fair, but it doesn't mean some of them are genuinely experimenting and figuring out interesting ways to use LLMs, some examples I personally love and admire * simonw - Simon Willison, he could just continue building datasette or help Django, but he started exploring LLMs * Armin Ronacher * Steve Yegge and many more
andy99 10mo ago
No idea if this is true but very sad if it is. This is a great argument for the concept of tenure, so experts can work on what they as experts deem important instead of being subject to the whims of leadership. I, probably naively pictured Distinguished Engineer to be closer to that, but maybe not.
- yolo3000 10mo ago
  It's in the career framework of most big techs to use AI this year, so everyone is doing it to hold on to their bonuses.
- RevEng 10mo ago
  Sadly, yes, it's true. New AI projects are getting funded and existing non-AI projects are getting mothballed. It's very disruptive and yet another sign of the hype being a bubble. Companies are pivoting entirely to it and neglecting their core competencies.

devsda 10mo ago

May be not resume driven. But hearing MS and AI, I can't help but wonder if this is result of one of those mandates by "leadership" where everyone is forced to come up with a AI use case or hack.

throwaw12 10mo ago
isn't this is exactly the point of innovation and mandates? "leadership" or real leaders, want people to experiment a lot, so some of them will come up with novel ideas and either decide to build it on their own and get rich or build internally and make company rich. Not always, but in many cases when someone becomes rich with innovation, it is probably because there was a benefit to a society (excluding gambling, porn, social media addictions)
- stoneforger 10mo ago
  Because there was a benefit for some shareholder somewhere, maybe.
  - bdcp 9mo ago
    It's insane to expect them go rouge and not benefit the company in some sense

bitwize 10mo ago

Oh he's from Microsoft? That makes malarkey like this track so much more.

weird-eye-issue 10mo ago

That sounds exactly like the type of person that would care about their resume.

greatgib 10mo ago

Currently Microsoft is eliminating a lot of the useless fat in redundancy plans. So the crappy "resume driven" thinkg might be actually needed.

zwnow 10mo ago

Microsoft (the company with no noteworthy accomplishments within the past decades) is a metric for a resume being good now? All they do is buy out companies and make a already finished product theirs.