I only know a handful, we’ve all just moved around a lot through our careers.

Change jobs every three years until you find a place that doesn’t suck.

Most of my social circle is in tech and we’re spread across or have worked for basically every company in our city and that isn’t really a thing here.

You’re dead on about the 5% of what you learned thing. I’m on like my 20th tech job and pretty much every one has been different. What I learned in school has applied to only the most basic aspects of any of those jobs. Everything else was learning as I go and just generally understanding how PCs and software work. I have done fairly well with upward mobility (currently about as high as I can go without taking another leadership position) but I had to bust my ass to do it and it was only because I always stood out because of that so I would be first choice. There were never enough promotions/mobility to go around to everyone that was deserving.

That was the initial impression of it. Now that we’ve had more experience with it and learned that it can’t be relied on, perception has changed. It is oversold and the costs are not worth what we are getting out of it.

Lemmy is pretty consistent with the people I know IRL in terms of opinions on AI.

Honestly probably about half the middle manager/project managers I’ve had to deal with could be replaced by AI. That’s not to say AI is good, they just really sucked at their job.

Yeah, please… give me shitty satellite internet instead of a fast fiber line…