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melfie@lemy.lol ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I’m a senior dev who has been the tech lead over various products throughout my career and have always been really engaged. In my current software engineer role, though, most of the important product and technology decisions are made behind closed doors and handed down to my team. I’ve found that any given idea I have that isn’t a direct and logical conclusion of a decision made in the ivory tower has a 99% chance of getting shot down or ignored. So, my job is more or less to pump out whatever drivel they want every day instead of being someone driving the development of products I’m building. Unsurprisingly, AI really helps a lot with that. The fact that AI reduces my engagement is a feature, not a bug, because every time I become engaged and start getting excited about an idea, it’s always met with indifference or even disdain, leading to frustration and depression. AI has definitely improved my mental health because I can give a lot less of a shit. The CEO sent out an e-mail the other day saying our #1 priority is to use AI to make ourselves more productive.

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whereIsTamara@lemmy.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
My boss make lots of really odd and… just bad requests. Half the time I can’t even understand what he’s asking because he seems to enjoy being super vague. For a few months now I just copy and paste his request to codex and let it rip. It’s usually pretty accurate. At least… the PRs get approved… and that’s all that matters.

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jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Familiar but with a difference in my case.

I’ve spent my entire career alternating between two experiences.

One is being grilled why I an delivering what I think should be done instead of what the executives told me to do.

The other is getting awards and promotions when it turns out that I was right and the customers loved it.

It happened to work for me to do it my way, though my executives have usually simultaneously rented the implication they don’t have good vision, they also know how to leverage my success for themselves. Particularly this most recent promotion has been stalled to reward better drones instead, but it’s looking like they have to pivot back to rewarding the folks the paying customers actually like instead of those that feed the executive egos.

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