Home again, if only for a day
Oct. 19th, 2024 06:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spryngHere's the brief pause between trips.
Michigan was a whirlwind -- I dubbed it Dayjob Con early on and that actually helped me approach the 2-3 days I was there with the right mindset. This time I was proactive about seeing people outside of the scheduled meetings and it felt less like I'd been forgotten and more like I made an impression. IDK why it took me so long to approach it like that. Maybe because I've always been a little resistant to having to go aaall the way back to Michigan.
I'm a little worried after our meeting with the head of HR yesterday -- it sounds like they want to implement AI more, but they're always short on the details of how. That's the thing that really bugs me about all these businesses trying to use AI (aside from the plagiarism, natch), none of them can give examples or case studies. Just a vague "it's going to change everything!" Who said, and can you show me that they're not in the pocket of Microsoft or one of the other big places pushing AI? Because interestingly enough, any and every gungho article I've seen around AI is written by a company heavily invested in it. And no one every addresses the fact that all this "free" genAI is going to be pay-to-play soon, and then the prices will start going up.
I guess as long as it's still cheaper than hiring real humans, they'll do it, which is the depressing part. -_-
Anyway, because of my commitment to con it, I didn't see as much of Michigan as I usually do. I made it out to our old house while it was still dark and tried a run around the nearby park with only moonlight, which was much harder than I remember. Small things have changed in a good way -- it looks like Lansing is finally recovering from the pandemic era and popping up fun local things that would've been nice while we were there. Also it helped that it was sunny and kinda warm the entire time.
I got home just in time yesterday to help put the kiddos to bed, then crawl in bed myself. Gotta enjoy my own bed while I can because we leave again tomorrow. Thankfully it looks like it'll be warm in DC, because I was not looking forward to figuring out how to dress the kids and bring all those extra clothes with us.
I don't have much in my brain leftover after last week. I need to finish this outline for this story but apparently everything is just going *dial-up noises*. I'm hoping a week away from dayjob will help me reset a bit, because it's definitely begun worming its fingers into the rest of my life. I try to keep boundaries, but man... it's hard sometimes. And especially when I was just there and immersed in it.
Anyway, wish me luck getting these cluckers ready for the next trip.
Michigan was a whirlwind -- I dubbed it Dayjob Con early on and that actually helped me approach the 2-3 days I was there with the right mindset. This time I was proactive about seeing people outside of the scheduled meetings and it felt less like I'd been forgotten and more like I made an impression. IDK why it took me so long to approach it like that. Maybe because I've always been a little resistant to having to go aaall the way back to Michigan.
I'm a little worried after our meeting with the head of HR yesterday -- it sounds like they want to implement AI more, but they're always short on the details of how. That's the thing that really bugs me about all these businesses trying to use AI (aside from the plagiarism, natch), none of them can give examples or case studies. Just a vague "it's going to change everything!" Who said, and can you show me that they're not in the pocket of Microsoft or one of the other big places pushing AI? Because interestingly enough, any and every gungho article I've seen around AI is written by a company heavily invested in it. And no one every addresses the fact that all this "free" genAI is going to be pay-to-play soon, and then the prices will start going up.
I guess as long as it's still cheaper than hiring real humans, they'll do it, which is the depressing part. -_-
Anyway, because of my commitment to con it, I didn't see as much of Michigan as I usually do. I made it out to our old house while it was still dark and tried a run around the nearby park with only moonlight, which was much harder than I remember. Small things have changed in a good way -- it looks like Lansing is finally recovering from the pandemic era and popping up fun local things that would've been nice while we were there. Also it helped that it was sunny and kinda warm the entire time.
I got home just in time yesterday to help put the kiddos to bed, then crawl in bed myself. Gotta enjoy my own bed while I can because we leave again tomorrow. Thankfully it looks like it'll be warm in DC, because I was not looking forward to figuring out how to dress the kids and bring all those extra clothes with us.
I don't have much in my brain leftover after last week. I need to finish this outline for this story but apparently everything is just going *dial-up noises*. I'm hoping a week away from dayjob will help me reset a bit, because it's definitely begun worming its fingers into the rest of my life. I try to keep boundaries, but man... it's hard sometimes. And especially when I was just there and immersed in it.
Anyway, wish me luck getting these cluckers ready for the next trip.
