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The lengthy story of how I left the Tech industry and started washing miso jars

Workers these days are quitting the Tech industry in droves. They are quitting their programmer or sysadmin job, or maybe just the startu...

I was also growing more aware of the injustices of modern work: high-paying jobs, especially within the startup world, are not at all commensurate with the effort requested from the worker, the amount of study you have put into learning what you do, or with the value you produce for people or customers. Fuck self-driving cars, food delivery robots, SCRUM, k8s, deep-learning, REST services, CNNs: the world is on fire, industrial civilization is collapsing, history is unfolding at accelerating speed, and I’m here fixing data pipelines. I spent around two years in total working with AI Forensics: after the organization was stable and structured, I moved back to my original data engineering role, while also leading a project investigating misinformation produced by Bing Copilot on the topics of political elections.

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