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ShiftyPumpkin
@shiftypumpkin.com

Well said. I'm in a similar boat (software dev of 25 years), and have been out of work for 3 years, unsure if I should get back into it, if I even can (a handful of interviews went nowhere). The industry is so demoralizing right now, and I'm adrift wondering what I should be doing next.

Emmie Päivärinta
@about1em.bsky.social

I'm not gonna wait around for the AI industry to stop being ethically bankrupt, it would have to change basically everything to even be worth considering using their products. If that ever happens I might reconsider, but that's a completely hypotetical scenario.

Emmie Päivärinta
@about1em.bsky.social

I also think it's odd there's like an expectation you should find this technology promising or interesting. Even without the context, I find it kinda average, and there are so many things I rather spend my limited time and energy learning than this. TBH I don't really think there's a future for AI.