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this is the start of everything falling apart, i can feel it (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 18 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I felt a lot like that too. I still do, but this helped me a lot:

Don't take the black pill

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  • [–] 11 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    Bookmarking this one for later. Thanks! It’s hard not to feel like my entire field has been cheapened. We spent so long perfecting our craft, only for it to to be completely devalued with speed as the main focus.

    The bright side is that AI will never be as good as me when it comes to CSS. I’m still the go-to CSS person at work, despite folks having AI tools at their disposal.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    only for it to to be completely devalued with speed as the main focus.

    Welcome to the rest of the world. All middle managers and C suite dickheads know is "hurry up and get it done," they've entirely lost the concept of "slow is smooth and smooth is fast."

    The middle manager above my direct supervisor regularly clocks in late every day (and that's after a 3h time difference no less, and it doesn't seem he understands timezones either), and then with about 1.5h left in my day suddenly "hey stop what you're doing and get this 3h of work done by the end of the day, but also no you can't work OT." Like "hey dickhead, it's physically impossible to do that," but of course instead of telling him, my direct supervisor just pulls that guy's penis out of his mouth for long enough to say "yes sir" and tell me to break the laws of physics.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago

    The process has been backward before LLM.

    When we try to get a new customer, they already have a price point for their PCB and a release date that cannot be moved.

    Without knowing what the requests they have will entail.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago*

    I’ve managed to land at a wildly uncommon yet positive company where engineers get to steer a lot of the timelines. We don’t always get what we want, but I feel like we have a better spot at the table than I have at previous jobs where it felt like MBAs and product people set the deadlines in stone before conversations with engineering even started. The only way I’ll leave this job is if they fire me.

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