[Self-development] When surrounded, don't be a idiot like them!
Over the last few days, I've been surrounded by so much random bullshit that I started to think that I was the one in the wrong.
People started asking stuff like everything was falling down, many priorities were crashing into each other, and a lot of pressure was building up in a way that I had never seen before. At first glance, I thought I wasn't paying attention to something, but it turned out that the more I understood what was going on, the more infuriated I felt.
For the first time in a few years, it feels like people are losing their minds and everyone is still dancing to a song that might take us nowhere (Reminded me of this lyrics). Sometimes I really think that I'm surrounded by people who have no idea how to work with other people or even know what they should be doing instead. For real, the more time I spend working for private companies, the more I realise that you don't need to be good to reach a higher level in a place; you just need to write good shit and pretend that you know something.
This is where the grey zone starts, because with the advent of AI, everyone can write down some shit, give good advice, take the right path after a mistake, or even avoid making that mistake. So now the struggle I'm facing is that I'm surrounded by a lot, and I really mean "A LOT", of people who would NEVER be able to talk about stuff without these tools, trying to impose their needs, opinions, or even desires with "data" and mouthful paragraphs written by a random prompt.
Just as a reminder, this is not a criticism of AI, since I also use it as a tool to help me every day. This is a criticism of people who don't want to learn stuff anymore and are using AI to cover their flaws instead. You ain't learning why shit is happening and where you need to improve if you use a fucking machine to think or answer for you.
Unfortunately, I'm just one person thinking and hoping for the best, hoping for people to start going backwards and understand something that everyone used to know like 1 or 2 years ago: that learning something takes time, and the only way to really check if you understand something is to hit the streets and try something. Maybe you will miss the first time, but when you fail, you learn to improve. Who would have believed it if, like 5 or 6 years ago, I were talking about trying the old-fashioned way instead of just embracing the technology around us. Actually, I don't care about metrics or how much faster you can deliver; I do care about humans being humans and doing human stuff instead. Fuck your quickness; read something, take your time to understand, and then answer. It will sound much better than "read this Slack message and answer in a polite way trying to convince the person that he is wrong based on this dataset".
Have a good one.