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[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 65 points 5 months ago

I'm an IT consultant and I had a meeting with AWS yesterday. My manager asked me to give the AWS team an overview of our solution so they could see what they could use for a new program they were pitching our clients. That's all the information I had, so I started the meeting by saying "I'm not sure what you all are proposing, so I'm going to give you a high level but please let me know where you need more details."

After I had finished giving my overview, I tried to get more info out of them about what they were proposing to build. I shit you not, their response was that they wanted to "build an app that allowed the business to run with AI and ML (Machine Learning).”

They didn't say, "we want to solve X and Y problems" or "enable Z functionality." Literally their entire goal was to build something with AI. I'm glad I wasn't on camera or in person, because I literally face-palmed.

[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

At my last job, a lady who was on the board as the marketing manager who seemingly did nothing but pay outside firms to redesign the website every once in a while suggested in a meeting that we explore the blockchain in the midst of attempting to redesign our databases to actually be compatible.

Given that she had spent about the previous 6 months actively sabotaging projects my and other teams were working on, as well as giving me insane nonsense projects to work on, I sighed and said oh god no.

So anyway I don't work there any more rofl.

But yeah can you imagine a SQL database... including PII and other sensitive health information... on a blockchain, for some fucking reason?

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

Higher ups love industry buzzwords. I've been in the business for over 20 years now and have learned to just keep my head down and say stuff like "I'll look into that more to see if it's viable." And then just leave it at that.

This is why I'll never progress far in my career.

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