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Which career path is not ruined by AI? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 days ago by underscores@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm kind of sick of being a dev. I hate AI with a passion.

I hate the hallucinations, I hate slop, I hate megacrops, I hate the environmental impacts, I hate the massive costs. I could go on but you get the picture.

At work I often times have to review vibe code slop from people who clock in 9 to 5 and don't give a fuck (I respect that, I just wish your fucking code wasn't slop)

I'm sick of it, I'm sick of hearing about AI tooling or new models or bro agentic actions bro based on your documentation bro.

I want to switch careers, so which career is not ruined by AI?

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[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

My datacenter doesn't host AI. Most of my servers process data coming from the square kilometer array in Australia. We're looking for aliens

Problem is, cost of living is so extremely high where I live and I don't know what else I would do to make enough money to stay here. I'm really good at this job, and I don't have very many other talents

It could be a lot worse too. Our cooling system is a closed loop so we aren't using fuck tons of water like newer datacenters. In the winter we can mostly get away with air cooling from outside air. And the power in my city is all from hydro dams

[–] sploosh@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

So when you said "Without me there is no AI," what were you referring to?

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Maintence/upkeep on servers in general, pretty fucking obvious what they meant.

[–] sploosh@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

This person is likely in facilities, I doubt they are touching servers much after they're racked. Maybe a crash cart is shit really hits the fan and ops can't get in remotely.

They went from directly being responsible for AI to having nothing to do with it. My question is not unreasonable.

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

People like me are required to keep this AI empire going. There doesn't seem to be a huge pool of people who are both computer people and good at physical labour/using tools.

I just meant that AI isn't going to make me unemployed

I do a lot of system administration too. It depends on the system and who owns it. I do a pretty wide variety of work which is why I love it

We had facilities monkeys like you describe but after a reorg they gave those responsibilities to whichever sysadmins showed the most interest, which is how I got the job. I'd rather play with toys than stare at a screen all day so the jump was a no brainer to me