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What happened with the AI excitement?

LyAVALE95 — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 18:19:04 +0000

Back then in 2019, when I started my adult life as an Engineer everything was about Data. The projection of 10-20 years of automated daily processes, predictions, models, and algorithms was everywhere. This trend lasted during quarantine, trying to bring the best comfort and entertainment to the people in their houses. This year everything changed, since the economic disruption, and the war, and now AI is an actual reality, not a prediction like before. The Big Tech companies jumped with a technology that we couldn't imagine a year ago.

As a reality, these tools seem like a different scenario in our lives and jobs. Instead of satisfying the most problematic or dangerous duties of human life, they're committing the intellectual and creative tasks. Those areas where humanity expressed the most valuable capacity of our specie since the beginning of our history. And they do it better than us, I'm sure that ChatGPT could make the best post than me if I ask it. I'm not trying to deny the capacities of these tools, but it seems like companies would try to replace the most expensive and unique talent with a computer.

I was excited about all the AI benefits to our life, and I wanted to be part of it, now every day I see how people are afraid about their own job value. I'm afraid about the future of humanity, what kind of jobs we could commit better than a machine? Only the most dangerous and extreme ones, with the lowest income meanwhile a machine replace us.

Yes, I'm overreacting and I can figure out how instead of less, we will have more jobs than ever (for a while at least). I'm only uncomfortable and I'm alone in this feeling, all those entries about ML and Data are less popular every day since AI is a reality in our lives.

I'm not against progress, but it seems like the people in power seems all of these as new chances to be even richer, no matter what. Instead of an iHome, now we don't have where to live.

How do you feel about all of these?

A 21 century office in Mexico

LyAVALE95 — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 19:22:53 +0000

My grandma is in the hospital right now. I used my lunch hour to see her, before a fearless race from the hospital to the Office. I've been here almost 4 years, sick, sad, in the worst and best moments. I said goodbye to my best friend and had to come back to finish the day. Even when I'd covid they asked me for a phone extension and even a manual to solve problems that anyone could do, and that wasn't that urgent.

I said goodbye to her, in the middle of an atmosphere of pain and suffering, and then I ran as fast as I could to check before the clock says that I'm out of time. Now I'm crying, I can't handle myself but I'm here.

During the pandemic, they were tracking everything we do, questioning and researching, all the time, how we made our work from home. I'm a developer, I could do my work from anywhere with just an internet connection and a computer. I don't want to sound arrogant but I can handle a lot of stuff, for my age. But I'm here, with my low salary and my grandma is in the hospital with all my family (who are not slaves like me).

Why I didn't change to another job? I've plenty of offers, but with my low salary, I can't stand a single week without income. There's always something, somebody at home getting sick, an emergency in the house, debt from the car. Also, I feel bad about quitting, idk why I feel like I'm in debt with this job.
Maybe just with my boss. In all the time I've been here I never heard support or caring words from anyone but her. They can see you dying but they never care haha from each other. So weird.

My biggest debt is with the 80% of people who tells me that, with the money that I gain, all their problems would get solved. All that people who work 10-12 hours for the minimum, eating whatever and without a single day of rest. Sometimes I feel so bad, so selfish, and otherwise so dumb cause I've 2 or 3 job offers to wait for a yes in the door.

Maybe with remote and flexible work nowadays I could be there, with my family, or when my dog passed away I could stand in front of her graveyard, saying "thank you for a lifetime with you" instead of running with my heart in intense pain to be here, always here.

Mental Health and Personal Goals During Quarantine 2021

LyAVALE95 — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 18:45:14 +0000

I've been dissecting about my personal and professional progress over 2021 and I realized that I was just trying to survive and recover my past life through these months. To be honest I want to feel alive and focused again, and sometimes is too hard, life is more like a giant stack of hard work to do.

How did you recovered the motivation to continue with your projects?

During the 2020 quarantine I didn't aim a lot but at least I used my time to improve myself and study harder.