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TL;DR: #Layoffs of skilled #ITprofessionals in expectations of replacing them with AI-only value delivery are likely to backfire.

I'm very pro-AI. These systems are extremely good at certain tasks! I'm just annoyed by the endless spin promoting all the things #AI is demonstrably really bad at right now.

I do #promptengineering and #softwaredevelopment professionally, but still spent 2+ hours last night working with several dedicated coding #AImodels debugging a hairy GNU find expression with path pruning. Net result? I gave up on the AI models, wrote my own regular expressions from scratch, and leveraged some good ol' fashioned shell scripting to handle the edge cases.

❎ AI Computation (GPU + CPU) + Human Labor ≥ 2 hours
✅ Experienced Human + Unit Tests = 0.5 hours

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If you're a good negotiator and/or your bosses aren't shit human beings, you might be able to get those protections written into your contract, but the vast majority of people won't. O. Reg. 285/01 dates back to the Mike Harris days of 2001, so new #ITProfessionals entering the workforce may not even be aware they're exempt from these protections.

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