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It's magic ai! Just dump the full set of documentation for every tool you've touched while working there into a reference folder and roll up an agent that just has instructions to check that folder. (Mostly joking, but would probably work better than it really should.)
 
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Here's a new one for ya.

One of my offboarding tasks is to setup an AI Agent version of myself for the org. What does this mean? I have absolutely no idea. Best I can figure just keep writing documentation like you would normally do on the way out and spend time writing down all of the institutional knowledge I can remember and feed it to the Agent. Then hope for the best.

The future is wild. I suspect y'all should get used to this.
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Ok, than sue them for intellectual property infringement, they can’t use a likeness of your brain, without paying the licensing fees
 
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Control said:
It's magic ai! Just dump the full set of documentation for every tool you've touched while working there into a reference folder and roll up an agent that just has instructions to check that folder. (Mostly joking, but would probably work better than it really should.)
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Ironically, we've been doing this for a couple of years. You can add RAGs pretty quickly to your own LLM chatbots and create collections of documentation for it to reference. It's a poor mans enterprise search but it's been way better than anything we've had up until now.

It obviously doesn't come anywhere near being able to cross train with an SME, but works a lot better than trying to search old emails and file shares.
 
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TJT

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Just found out this new office doesn't allow flip flops.

This is a violation of my constitutional rights!

Control said:
It's magic ai! Just dump the full set of documentation for every tool you've touched while working there into a reference folder and roll up an agent that just has instructions to check that folder. (Mostly joking, but would probably work better than it really should.)
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This is mostly what I am doing. Indexing the docs to the agent that I would be writing anyway.
 
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Just found out this new office doesn't allow flip flops.
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A reasonable compromise for the modern professional:
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TJT said:
Just found out this new office doesn't allow flip flops.

This is a violation of my constitutional rights!


This is mostly what I am doing. Indexing the docs to the agent that I would be writing anyway.
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Sad thing is when I read that I thought this was a net positive

But I work with a lot of indians
 
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Haus

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TJT said:
Here's a new one for ya.

One of my offboarding tasks is to setup an AI Agent version of myself for the org. What does this mean? I have absolutely no idea. Best I can figure just keep writing documentation like you would normally do on the way out and spend time writing down all of the institutional knowledge I can remember and feed it to the Agent. Then hope for the best.

The future is wild. I suspect y'all should get used to this.
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"We're reaching out because we think the AI you left us with was not properly configured. We ask it questions but all it sends back are ASCII art middle fingers.... "
 
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Control said:
It's magic ai! Just dump the full set of documentation for every tool you've touched while working there into a reference folder and roll up an agent that just has instructions to check that folder. (Mostly joking, but would probably work better than it really should.)
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Right now I'm literally dealing with members of the sales teams where I work who are doing that. Just dumping all the docs into a folder, pointing AI at it and having the AI crank out proposals and plans. Then they're stunned when I ask when if they had the major head trauma before or after they wrote what I was reading....
 
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TJT

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A reasonable compromise for the modern professional:
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I'm not a gay old man from the midwest thanks.

That said I am happy to be moving to work in tech but not for a tech company. This is a solidly blue collar industry where they just happen to employ software engineers as well. At this stage of my career I do value working for a company where I actually believe and support the product they sell. Luckily I have been in that position since I left General Motors (never owned a GM car there either, they can eat shit).
 
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TJT said:
Just found out this new office doesn't allow flip flops.

This is a violation of my constitutional rights!


This is mostly what I am doing. Indexing the docs to the agent that I would be writing anyway.
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There's a guy that owns a business in my line of work. He walks around and works barefooted all the time. People are often commenting to "put on some damn shoes" lol.
 
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I have to write the job description for my replacement and its a Principal engineering position. Not that I care I know they can't match my offer. But I feel somewhat validated by it.
 
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Well entering my last week at this job. This will be the first time in my life I left a job that I actually, genuinely liked and feel bad about it. I examined this from every angle I could think of but it ultimately came down to this:
  1. Stay and become like a steward of a slowly maturing SAAS platform. I would have great stability as part of the OG crowd. In order to advance I would have to create a role above myself for the 5th time. I would succeed at this eventually but I would remain at below the market rate for my role. I am very familiar with this domain now so I am not really learning anything new anymore outside of making my own projects or doing things like FEDRAMP like I did recently.
  2. Move into a new role with an immediate 50k salary increase without even a title change. They have a large data platform organization so I would have definite room to advance and I find the industry and its associated data problems interesting. Company has the same kind of vibes as my current which is why I entertained it at all.

In the past 5 years data engineering, data platform, analytics engineering, etc have all blown up in comp. When I was at GM the "data engineers" who did ETL work were paid less than app developers. I just have always had a general interest in working with data in software. Being some dumbass working on Cognos, Informatica, and ancient SSIS stuff did not really appeal to me. Today the data platform has a lot of surface area across most organizations and also requires development in multiple layers to be effective, in addition to working with every business domain at a company depending on size. That's the main reason I think the comp is so much higher for these roles now. But I am retarded so please correct me if I am wrong.

I am not super ambitious just looking for promos or anything. But I am not even 40 yet so I am not willing to just sit and coast.
 
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TJT said:
Well entering my last week at this job. This will be the first time in my life I left a job that I actually, genuinely liked and feel bad about it. I examined this from every angle I could think of but it ultimately came down to this:
  1. Stay and become like a steward of a slowly maturing SAAS platform. I would have great stability as part of the OG crowd. In order to advance I would have to create a role above myself for the 5th time. I would succeed at this eventually but I would remain at below the market rate for my role. I am very familiar with this domain now so I am not really learning anything new anymore outside of making my own projects or doing things like FEDRAMP like I did recently.
  2. Move into a new role with an immediate 50k salary increase without even a title change. They have a large data platform organization so I would have definite room to advance and I find the industry and its associated data problems interesting. Company has the same kind of vibes as my current which is why I entertained it at all.

In the past 5 years data engineering, data platform, analytics engineering, etc have all blown up in comp. When I was at GM the "data engineers" who did ETL work were paid less than app developers. I just have always had a general interest in working with data in software. Being some dumbass working on Cognos, Informatica, and ancient SSIS stuff did not really appeal to me. Today the data platform has a lot of surface area across most organizations and also requires development in multiple layers to be effective, in addition to working with every business domain at a company depending on size. That's the main reason I think the comp is so much higher for these roles now. But I am retarded so please correct me if I am wrong.

I am not super ambitious just looking for promos or anything. But I am not even 40 yet so I am not willing to just sit and coast.
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Enjoy it. This is an historically bad market for American tech workers so its all the more impressive a win. Take it and enjoy it.
 
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TJT said:
Well entering my last week at this job. This will be the first time in my life I left a job that I actually, genuinely liked and feel bad about it. I examined this from every angle I could think of but it ultimately came down to this:
  1. Stay and become like a steward of a slowly maturing SAAS platform. I would have great stability as part of the OG crowd. In order to advance I would have to create a role above myself for the 5th time. I would succeed at this eventually but I would remain at below the market rate for my role. I am very familiar with this domain now so I am not really learning anything new anymore outside of making my own projects or doing things like FEDRAMP like I did recently.
  2. Move into a new role with an immediate 50k salary increase without even a title change. They have a large data platform organization so I would have definite room to advance and I find the industry and its associated data problems interesting. Company has the same kind of vibes as my current which is why I entertained it at all.

In the past 5 years data engineering, data platform, analytics engineering, etc have all blown up in comp. When I was at GM the "data engineers" who did ETL work were paid less than app developers. I just have always had a general interest in working with data in software. Being some dumbass working on Cognos, Informatica, and ancient SSIS stuff did not really appeal to me. Today the data platform has a lot of surface area across most organizations and also requires development in multiple layers to be effective, in addition to working with every business domain at a company depending on size. That's the main reason I think the comp is so much higher for these roles now. But I am retarded so please correct me if I am wrong.

I am not super ambitious just looking for promos or anything. But I am not even 40 yet so I am not willing to just sit and coast.
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Good job bro. I might have some news ill share in a DM next week
 
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