Category: work
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Disaster Zones
Teams has a fun “Decorate” feature that lets you quickly substitute in an AI-augmented version of your actual background, so… now the in-camera-view area of my home desk might also be a disaster.
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Powerless Elevator
On the plus side, this happened to me on a day I was bringing in treats for my work anniversary, so my thinking was a little bit: “how long am I going to be trapped in here?” and, at the same time, a bit of: “do I have a fork in my bag?”
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Totally Tabular
I wouldn’t be that surprised to see someone with literally hundreds of tabs open. Maybe a little impressed.
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Ultra Filtered
Originally meant for this comic to be about throttling but then I didn’t draw it that way. Oh well.
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Baseball Stats
Now I know a little about how the MVP voting works, and it is way more complicated than I expected.
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No Pressure
This did happen, but it was a pretty informal meeting overall, so if that wasn’t enough time for all the demos they could save one for the next meeting. So actually not much pressure.
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Be There For Others
This may be one of the more compelling reasons I’ve heard so far for return-to-office: that in-office culture is especially beneficial for folks starting out when they’re picking up good habits, skills, and domain knowledge.
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Human Overlords
I’m not sure if it’s better or worse to think that the AI could genuinely feel sorry for making a mistake.
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Silence Is Golden
There have been some cases where asking an AI to rate itself gives sort of funny results.
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Deployment Break
It does feel kind of like being grounded for bad behavior.