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  • mdurell@lemmy.worldtome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    4 months ago

    I have a 3.5 year gap on mine and used to dread this question. It came up during a second or third interview with a previous employer and the dread left as I answered honestly:

    I was married to someone that was fortunate enough to have a lot of wealth and I didn’t need to work. During this time we traveled a good bit and I went back to school for a stint to study music theory. I wouldn’t trade those experiences for anything in the world but, alas, the marriage didn’t work out and I had to go back to work. When reviewing my options I found a renewed sense of purpose in my career that transcends a simple means to pay my bills. I am very blessed to have had these opportunities and wish everyone was as fortunate.










  • As with all tech; it depends. It’s another tool in my toolbox and a useful one at that. Will it replace me in my job? Not anytime soon. However, it will make me more proficient at my job and my 30+ years of experience will keep its bad ideas out of production. If my bosses decide tomorrow that I can be replaced with AI in the current state, they deserve what they have coming. That said, they are willing to pay for additional tooling provided me with multiple AI engines and I can’t be more thrilled. I’d rather give AI a simple task to do the busy work than work with overseas developers that get it wrong time and time again and take a week to iterate while asking how for loops work in Python.