Post #2278670

2026-05-08 22:49 UTC

Congrats! Your new job is: arguing with a bot. Multiple bots. And people outsourcing their brain to bots. But mostly bots. Sometimes you have to social engineer the bots to do your bidding. Sometimes you have to pit the bots against each other. But make no mistake, it&#39;s arguing with the bots. That, and email. And meetings. How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in&#39;t.

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@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange 2026-05-08 22:57

@jschauma@mstdn.social i'm not sure i've ever heard a more dystopian possible career... a couple of jobs ago, i was technically an SME/architect. but i realized early on that my job was "no". - no, that won't work - no, that violates the protocol - no, that violates EU law - no, that defies the laws of physics - no, that's an unsupportable mess - no, that isn't what the user feedback meant at all - no, there's no way we'll finish that in 1 sprint - no, users won't fall for that it sucked all the joy out of my job. yet, this sounds worse.

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@Tubemeister@mstdn.social 2026-05-09 06:59

@jschauma@mstdn.social What strikes me as funny is that trying to contact some company and having to argue your way through an obtuse chatbot has been one of the most hateful experiences of the modern world for a while.

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@Johns_priv@mastodon.social 2026-05-09 08:32

@jschauma@mstdn.social That's the best part of being local support, I just deal with people.

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@shanecelis@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-05-09 18:38

@jschauma@mstdn.social Remember when we’d argue with humans on the internet? Thems were the days.

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