RobRivera

It's 2026.

Go get a lawyer if you feel you're right.

REGARDLESS of what level of autonomy in real world operations an AI is given, from responsible himan supervised and reviewed publications to full Autonomous action, the ai AGENT should be serving as AN AGENT. With a PRINCIPLE (principal?).

If an AI is truly agentic, it should be advertising who it is speaking on behalf of, and then that person or entity should be treated as the person responsible.

No wonder eglin is addicted hahaha.

But in all seriousness, there are teams of people on the data crunch side of things that seems like a pedestrian insight

Observability is great, dont get me wrong, but past 3 to 6 months of work on the same thing...I can almost beet the observability tools in timetoresolve.

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The craft is noticeably different.

A) op didnt clarify who was doing the initiation of a miscarriage. There's unclarified ambiguity.

B) charging manslaughter for one person, and providing medical support for another for the same action of facilitating a miscarriage enters a very real legal discourse know as the entire debate around women's rights. If you would like to know more you can review the legal precedents associated therein.

Competitive admission hasn't really changed by nature

If you get to a point of silent resentment 'debt' in spite of efforts to empathise, consider perspective, and provide clarity, then you have a collaboration problem on the other end. How you choose to address that is dependent on your political capital, and sometimes you need to accept it.

Young me naively believed people were like rational automatons who would speak up when appropriate, not take thinga personal, and aspire to the true north that I aspired to as a colleague, and that is no baseline for a healthy collaboration.

I found this productive from a learning perspective, to prevent bias and trying to shoehorn a style that may not be optimal for the work.

Now after nearly a decade of work I have been able to bridge the gap for your alleged 'missing middle'.

This is where I diverge from your perspective; I take the personal growth and skill perspective to navigating my career. That is to say, I focus on solving the problems I want, researching what skills are most effective with an open mind that I may bring something novel from my past, and grow from there.

I think if you search for the PERFECT role leveraging your skills, you may wait a long time. Find a problem--artistic, commercial, or otherwise stimulating--that you would be willing to pursue in your free time. For me: this was video game development, however I forked my development from most paradigms circa 2003, and been reinventing many wheels for the sake of deeper knowledge.

You may be lucky to find a role which leverages everything you may find your personal skills are, but if a role isnt, dont discounts the principles it took to succeed at something as dema ding as a PhD.

I hope you find this perspective valuable!

No single union is 1:1 alike.

When I had a family member get a job as a local grocery store bagger, then job stipulated he HAD to join the union and give his dues out of paycheck within 1 month or he would be fired from his job.

He quit. He was a 15yrold teenager just trying ro have an after school job and he got squeezed.

Unions are not good. Unions are not bad. Unions are.

I am eager to see how this specific union engages with the game development industry.