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Not OP but for me it comes down to "asking a person" ≠ "asking a device". Besides just to be pedantic one of the thing you've described is not something an llm would be able to do, and for the second one... That's what watches and clocks are for. You don't need to have a datacenter running smwh in the world or a beefy PC to take a glance at the time. If you think you do, I personally wouldn't call others "a little strange" if I were you.

Asinine comments such at these is the reason why we have countries having to sound an alarm in the first place

Agree. Also what upsets me the most is that to a great extent, all of these antics he pulls out are largely ignored by its userbase, meaning that most of the people using OpenAI products are either ignoring or ignorant altogether of what he truly thinks of them. I'm not advocating for stopping GenAI usage because of this, but considering there are several equivalent competitors out there, it'd be mostly warranted to boycott OpenAI for these exact reason.

Otherwise the message that remains in the eye of these ghouls is that no matter how much you treat the world population as annoying cattle, they'll gobble it up in exchange for restaurant suggestions and rageslop

Yep that's true, on the other hand the trend I've been seeing in the last months is worrying me, in that the company I'm working for and other adjacent ones, the focus is to hand off the development to "managed agents" or whatever, relegating embedded engineers to basically just V&V or QA. The increase in crap code has been duly reported by employees such as me and promptly discarded, considered just FUD by upper management

oh okay, I shouldn't have judged that so haphazardly. thx for the references

imho it was definitely popular before and altman adopted it to fit in with the online crowd

he's started making videos way before LLMs were able to aid in researching content. He's just good at doing what he does, no tricks there.

They just know it's not going to happen

Not the best counterpoint to the argument IMHO, especially considering there are tens/hundred of thousand of people that do the same as you, and that has only driven rent cost up in the extended Milan metropolitan area, even 30-40 km further away from the city, and with roads that are not nearly capable enough to carry commuters' traffic, it just transforms the underlying issues into massive, daily traffic jams anywhere in the immediate area

What about EU's CRA?

If that someone then takes that work that you're providing for free to other people to build on it, makes a closed source product out of it and gives you no attribution, then you can be darn well sure I want to protect it.

that does not answer at all OP's question.

that is not what OP was talking about though.

I hope you're being sarcastic. SPC is necessary because mechanical parts have physical tolerances and manufacturing processes are affected by unavoidable statistical variations; it is beyond idiotic to be provided with a machine that can execute deterministic, repeatable processes and then throw that all into the gutter for mere convenience, justifying that simply because "the time is ripe for SWE to learn statistics"

Nor is sticking your head in the sand.

not just the members states but also all the other behemoths stakeholders like Airbus, Thales, OHB and so on, which need to make sure that new missions are as easy to adapt to their preexisting flight heritage as possible

lol you don't know the half of it. Working with ESA for anything but the most trivial project is beyond frustrating; it's basically 99% about producing swathes of documentation, which in itself is more akin to philosophy and semantic dissertations over obscure standards than actual technical work.

ESA is so risk averse that it's even weird for a space company

Lol, i hadn't even checked the status (or existence, even) of ST's US factories. I've just known the company for a good amount of years having worked with their products for several projects and thus already knew that the biggest portion of their factories and offices is spread across France and Italy (whence their venture originally started from), so to present it as a Swiss company just underlined a very poor knowledge of the topic IMHO

"[...] chip sets that are like ST Micro [a Swiss company with American factories]"

I guess that if Ford moved their HQ in DRC, it would be called a Congolese company with American factories, too?

Thanks I suppose

Yeah sucks and that's why I'm so reluctant to risk staying, because in the worst case I'll be having to stay a full year where I would have otherwise just stayed 6 months and a day

Are they organized enough to have good oversight and fire people who aren't keeping up with their work?

In that there exists a CEO, CTO, and a manager above me who all can get reports from my peers? Yes. Do they care about the project or my role in it? No they have bigger fishes to fry. PM and project leader couldn't care less about my satisfaction but they sure as hell won't like it when they ask my team to provide statements that make no sense or technical decisions which we know are senseless but that will make their life easier. Can we refuse to comply? No.

Why not? Who's stopping you and what's the consequence of doing this?

PM that asks me to do A in way X is sure as hell not going to like me doing B as Y, and it doesn't matter whether B>A in terms of quality/performance/whatever or Y>X in terms of efficiency/scalability/whatever, because they had A|X in mind and need to check some boxes.

Mind you everyone in my team is aware of that; they simply can't do otherwise, because ownership of these kind of decisions is discouraged and when it isn't, everything is thrown to the gutter for the nth time that PM changes and requirements have to be remade from scratch.

I don't think I can do either in my current position.

either get by doing hardly anything

I have no interest in doing that, plus it would be unfair to those who may depending on whatever (little) work of interest I can accomplish as of now and would antagonize my team members.

you can do anything you want

Lack of supervisors != lack of project and organizational perimeters in this case. I can't just start working on whatever I want by leaving the daily responsibilities behind, despite how clueless everyone seems to be regarding those, nor can I just take any decision I'm confronted with on a whim.

Are you sure that you would be "forced" to wait 6 months?

You're right, I'm still not sure about that. It's just been my experience so far (i.e. that of the employer requesting to oblige the notice period in full when leaving past jobs).

I understand that feeling, I started with a messy startup and followed into a toxic one. Now I am in a healthy environment that I didn't know could exist! I just want to tell you that there is hope, it exists! Keep looking.

Pretty close to my own experience then, except for an extremely messy corp in between :P I'm glad it worked out for you!! Gives me hope to find something better myself :)

Thank you for taking the time to write this. As a matter of fact it's my fourth work experience, I basically spent 2y per company, spending the first year at the first one doing something not related to embedded coding, but your point is still perfectly valid.

I'm glad the doubts that were described in the post amount to a tangible risk in term of career according to others, too.

And yes, totally onboard with what you said with basically not coding for a duration equal to my current career duration - I feel there's so much out there I ought to learn and bash my head against that it's honestly crazy to think the managers would not find something weird with such a proposal.

True that, also the notice period I'm contractually obliged to follow is in the phase where I could leave at any moment, whereas waiting for the trial phase to be over would force me to wait 6 months to leave.

My fear is that, coming from a similarly dysfunctional place, I'll just put in hopes and efforts for a better workplace and end up somewhere even worse, at which point I'll have to slow down in order not to change 3 jobs in such a small amount of time.

Also, sometimes I just feel ungrateful for whining this much, especially considering I have a family (not my own, mind you) to support and cannot allow myself to simply be without a job (and a well paying one at that) for long periods of time - I would love to have some objective measures for saying the role is not worth it, but of course that is not feasible in reality, and that deeply bothers me.

that is something that is already being taken care of in other projects, and it will indeed be necessary especially for this one, but that does not seem to tip the scale in favor of keeping development in-house; on the contrary, plans to outsource that and the development of a test facility are also being made.

one way to put them would be on a list of PRC funded startups, for instance. also I have no idea whether you worked with their hardware before and at which level; I have, and their concept of "open" source HW is very different from what OP is talking about

It really doesn't imho. It does by no mean follow the kind of "sleekness" that you expect from contemporary UIs, but it's perfectly functional and takes the least amount of effort of getting used to, at least from the point of view of someone that does not otherwise particularly love to invest too much time in convoluted UIs (á la GIMP :))

I'm looking up Thorium right now, I initially assumed you were referring to the homonymous browser (also their website feels organized a bit weirdly to me). Seems a solid option for epubs, admittedly the builtin calibre reader is a bit lackluster.