I actually want that. Not so I can chat to the AI, but so that everyone else who is forced into the office so that they can be on a call with their teammates in other regions don't distract me, and vice versa. I have noise cancelling headphones, but even they aren't enough.
Managers who thought a panopticon was the best way to organize.
In a previous job, the manager had a low horizontal slit window in his office that allowed him to watch everybody in the open office from a seating position.
This picture is something else with satirical text imposed on it, yeah? Measuring CO2 or something? Why wouldn’t you just type? Why does the mask cover the nose? It’s not plugged into his laptop, so maybe a specialized device offscreen? The small office/work area doesn’t fit the vibe.
Yeah, I think it's just one of those gamer isolation masks (or a weird stenography mask).
you put your mic inside it but it muffles the sound from the rest of the room. Some people use them as steno masks, or just to be polite while in the office and you're in a bunch of meetings or similar. They've been around for ages, they got really popular during covid.
They might be using it for text-to-speech, but it's a product that's existed for years for use with text to speech so it's not particularly a sign of the times.
I've actually asked one of the software devs at my company about this. The answer is "typing is too slow" - the idea goes that you can dictate 2-3x faster than you can type, and since the current software market is focused on FASTER FASTER MORE SPEED MORE CODE NOW, and your performance is often only measured in how many lines of code you produce, the only way you can stay competitive is to dictate to your dozen AI agents, with you just auditing and debugging the output when needed.
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dessalines@lemmy.ml · 60 pts · 21d
It's quite possible that in the future, ai bros will rediscover "thinking":
yogthos@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 20d
lmao that's amazing
einkorn@feddit.org · 9 pts · 20d
Rubber ducky debugging FTW!
WhiteHotaru@feddit.org · 3 pts · 20d
Works great with writing tickets as well.
anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 21d
I mean, for them it's just "discover"
FlavorGrain@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 21d
Maybe they should try typing
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 21d
With their fingers? Like they use to wipe their butts?
TootSweet@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 21d
At the end of Idiocracy, they showed hoses pulling water out of toilets to water plants.
To extend the joke, I'm picturing devices strapped to people's asses to let them type by wiping their butts.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21d
We know better today, though. Our narrative will simply end on flames.
ambitiousslab@feddit.uk · 41 pts · 21d
I actually want that. Not so I can chat to the AI, but so that everyone else who is forced into the office so that they can be on a call with their teammates in other regions don't distract me, and vice versa. I have noise cancelling headphones, but even they aren't enough.
MintyFresh@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 21d
I'm old enough to remember cubicles that had noise absorbing walls. Idk who thought open offices with hard reflecting surfaces was a good idea.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub · 21 pts · 21d
Managers who thought a panopticon was the best way to organize.
In a previous job, the manager had a low horizontal slit window in his office that allowed him to watch everybody in the open office from a seating position.
naeap@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 21d
Best way to surveil
WhiteHotaru@feddit.org · 1 pts · 20d
Foucault intensifies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discipline_and_Punish
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 21d
Density.
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 19d
Architects.
ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 21d
Meeting rooms are there for a reason. And if there are not enough, good excuse to not go to the office
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 21d
This is why WFH is the way
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 31 pts · 21d
You merely adopted the slop. I was born in it. Molded by it. I had not seen original code until I was already senior manager.
Jimbabwe@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 21d
This picture is something else with satirical text imposed on it, yeah? Measuring CO2 or something? Why wouldn’t you just type? Why does the mask cover the nose? It’s not plugged into his laptop, so maybe a specialized device offscreen? The small office/work area doesn’t fit the vibe.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 21d
Yeah, I think it's just one of those gamer isolation masks (or a weird stenography mask).
you put your mic inside it but it muffles the sound from the rest of the room. Some people use them as steno masks, or just to be polite while in the office and you're in a bunch of meetings or similar. They've been around for ages, they got really popular during covid.
They might be using it for text-to-speech, but it's a product that's existed for years for use with text to speech so it's not particularly a sign of the times.
MoonMelon@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 21d
It does look like a stenomask, but the over the nose thing is different. I don't know why you wouldn't just type. Maybe it dampens the screaming.
Mirshe@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 20d
I've actually asked one of the software devs at my company about this. The answer is "typing is too slow" - the idea goes that you can dictate 2-3x faster than you can type, and since the current software market is focused on FASTER FASTER MORE SPEED MORE CODE NOW, and your performance is often only measured in how many lines of code you produce, the only way you can stay competitive is to dictate to your dozen AI agents, with you just auditing and debugging the output when needed.
kylie_kraft@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21d
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21d
I looks like an XLR connector, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's a mic.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 13 pts · 21d
We are actually in the Matrix already. This reality we are seeing is the Matrix trying to re-make the Matrix using FORTRAN as a side project.
We are reality's open source side hustle.
Etterra@discuss.online · 8 pts · 20d
dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza · 8 pts · 21d
tracyspcy@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 20d
I really want it to be true
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 19d
Huffing their own farts.