So my main concern here is that my experience may be a microcosm of the shallowing of discussions correlated with some people's increased use of AI. That worries me.

It's more of a meta point to me. I get that this series isn't landing for some people, yourself included, but the meta-observation is that given something of roughly equal substantiveness as before, these friends' motivations for long form content and discussion seem to have atrophied, perhaps largely due to the addition of the AI summary reality cipher to their lives.

Of course, correlation isn't causation. Maybe they both just got older and more lazy, but given their reliance on AI summaries in other debates happening recently, I'm worried.

(FYI, I didn't downvote your comment)

Maybe it's something like that AI allows them to indulge in their shallowness/laziness by giving them the impression that they're not doing that.

I chat with these friends a lot but I rarely send articles that I suggest they read and that I think are profound, so I expected them to read it. These are smart people that have a history of reading lots of books.

They are both huge AI proponents now and use AI for nearly everything now. Debates on various topics with them used to be rich; now, they're shallow and they just send me AI summaries of points they're clearly just predisposed to. Their attention spans are dwindling.

[1] https://aphyr.com/data/posts/411/the-future-of-everything-is...

nekoweb is another one: https://nekoweb.org/explore?page=1&sort=lastupd&by=tag&q=

Why doesn't HTTP/2 use more than one socket?

I imagine sometimes I might want to require approval for certain tool calls all the time, whereas other times I might just want to add that to the prompt.

> What kind of role are you in?

SRE/Programmer

> How did you make the part-time arrangement happen?

I accidentally fell into it when I went part time to do a masters degree to consider switching careers but then, when I decided I didn't want to pursue the other career, I just kept doing part time and my company was fine with it. I work Mondays (7 hours), Tuesdays (7 hours), and Wednesdays (6 hours) and then I have Thursdays through Sundays off. I get paid half of course but it's still a good salary (grateful to be a programmer!).

> What’s been the hardest part of working part-time in tech?

Sometimes it's easier for me to take calls on Thursdays or Fridays instead of pushing back on it (technically I could, but I don't want to jeopardize my part time status). This is fine as I just make up the time in the following week but it means that I can't easily treat Thursdays and Fridays exactly like a weekend as far as scheduling trips, etc.

> Are there specific companies or setups that are more open to part-time roles?

I did it at a huge company so I think it's possible anywhere but I already had a great reputation and my company really wanted to keep me, and I think it would be harder to do without having a great reputation. I get the impression that companies generally don't like doing this because of the possible contagion effect of other workers wanting to do the same, so I generally don't talk about it much at work.

> Any tips, advice, or experiences you can share would be super helpful!

Four days a week part time is much more do-able than three days a week. Don't limit yourself just to companies/jobs that explicitly advertise part time work, though those certainly also make sense to apply to, but just make part time a key part of the negotiation process. Consider emphasizing flexibility.

It wasn't clearly defined but I think EU stall means Execution Unit stall which is when a GPU "becomes stalled when all of its threads are waiting for results from fixed function units" https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/gpa/user-guide/...

2. Programmer Anarchy by Fred George on YouTube is an interesting idea.