Sounds like a way to get hired, implement all your automations, then you’ll get fired.
The better move would be to package your automations, and then sell the package to corporations, including up charges for implementation, testing, and customization.
That’s how you go from being a worker wage slave, to being independently wealthy.
Is that khan from khan academy;
Ah yes, automation, the field that is well known for systemizing processes into chains of predictable machine I/O — the perfect place to inject the mercurial hallucination service I rent.
“Sorry, the job description said we were looking for a software developer, not a bot wrangler. There must have been some kind of miscommunication. Best of luck out there!”
As others have listed, can’t really share this as the company owns all the work. Even then, not every company is the same. There’s a lot of stupid shit I could automate in my current position that would be useless at every other company–the processes (and reasons behind them) are completely different.
Even if the LLM worked flawlessly, you’re just proving your lack of purpose to the company which means they’ll fire you. What do these people even think?!
I’m glad I had only spent a few grand on IT certs before the whole industry went tits up. Looking forward to a post internet world with all my hoarded data.
For reference, which certs did you to for?
I was almost done with my CCNA prep when I decided it wasn’t worth it to continue
These fucking morons have convinced themselves that their glorious chat bots are actually able to replace actual work.
They can replace some work, especially debugging. There are a bunch of bug fixes I wouldn’t have made because debugging them was too inane for too little reward. But Claude has no problem writing 14 throw-away scripts to try and reproduce the issue until it succeeds.
Translation: “I have no real understanding of anything beyond feeding it into ChatGPT. Please pay me millions of dollars to be a net loss to your organization.”
Those agents aren’t yours in multiple ways. That’s not how things work.
It’s funny too because as soon as the model changes the behavior shifts. So it’s even less of a flex.
I hope the hiring manager responds with leetcode questions on a whiteboard.
An average 22 year old does not have the experience to automate 10 workflows, let alone 100. They also don’t know all the gotchas. This is dumb advice.
Also “automating a workflow” IMO shouldn’t involve having an agent at the end. If tokens and cloud models with selling a dollar for a quarter pricing levels are required for your automated workflow to work, you’ve set up a ticking time bomb.
Use this subsidized garage to churn out regular automation that you can maintain after the merry go round inevitably stops. I was told as much by Microsoft AI specialists themselves. Do not toss out working ci/cd processes in favor of putting a chatbot in the middle, because who knows if you’ll still be able to run that chatbot in a couple of years.
Years? Many models are gone in a few months. If you build 100 automations based on them, you need to upgrade and retest them constantly.
And most business processes are totally fine with a “If this, then that” logic. Companies work like that. The law kind of works like that. No need for expensive and problematic chatbots. Just automate based on simple if loops.
If people were looking at this intelligently, they’d clearly see that AI is heavily subsidized and you can use the subsidized help to fix your broken shit without becoming completely dependent upon it being subsidized forever.
But stupid is as stupid does, so they’ll all just continue to add unhelpful chatbots to their software and token consuming nonsense workflows instead of fixing any quantity of their huge amount of open problems.
Yeah - those people investing trillions in AI companies and datacenters want to earn their trillions back with interest.
Pretty much the same time bomb around any proprietary software.
If someone said “do you want to interview my agents first”, I think the interview would be over. Well maybe the first time I’d be tempted to see if I could tokenmaxx someone else’s agent. After that it would be too much work for the enjiyment. Maybe I should automate that workflow… Oh no they got me!
“Your agents!?! You mean the proprietary models you did not develop, own, or control, and just pay a foreign SaaS company to utilize, built by people much smarter than you, using software coded by people much more competent than you, and can be replaced or removed at any time? Why do I need you again?”
“I like money. Me want money. Give money now. Ooga booga”
The caricature you sketch definitely does exist
But so does the IT hobbyist using an open source model with local hardware and customised training.
Of course i just realise that person wouldn’t call it an agent, they wouldn’t tell you to interview the agent and probably wisely frame it as:
“I develop my own tools and automation systems to free up time and resources for more important projects” at most refer to “machine learning” and absolute avoid using the term “ai”.
It’s called satire
Fair!
If you’re smart, you’d use your personal computer running a local AI model. It’s your expertise that made working prompts because AI on its own is trash. So when you leave, your knowledge goes with you.
Yeah but you’re forgetting one thing that years in IT have taught me. Most people aren’t smart. Most people are dumber than shit, are barely literate, and refuse to learn. They only know “I press this specific button located at this one place for things to happen”. If the button is changed in any way such as a slightly different color or moved by an inch, they are completely lost and helpless
Most people are dumber than shit, are barely literate, and refuse to learn
I’m glad to know I’m not the only one who feels this way. Thank you. I feel slightly more normal today.
How’s the joke by George Carlin go again?
Something like “imagine the intelligence of the average person and then realize that half of people are dumber than that.”
Ugh, you are giving me flashbacks to when the start button stopped saying “start” on it. I lost so much faith in humanity during that upgrade.
If you’re automating workflows, you don’t get to take your current employers code with you when you leave.
Are you supposed to just be writing random automations for things that might exist somewhere? Why would anyone think that’s impressive?Either you’re showing me something useless you did for no reason, or you’re asking if I want to see some stolen IP. Neither of these is giving me a particularly good impression.
Much more impressive to have genuine, real contributions to open aource projects… Not those garbage “I fixed 10000 typos in readmes which were actually just word choices and 250 of them got pushed so pls hire me”
