Back when I was applying for other jobs I tried to use the company mandated AI to generate (or at least write a few paragraphs for) my CV. It turned out like shit and sounded completely insincere and fake. So I decided to not use AI at all for my job search. Wrote and formatted a nice 1-page CV by hand and simply didn’t apply to any positions that required a cover letter (cover letters are a waste of time imo).
Applied to maybe 50 or so places, got 3 interviews and 3 offers. Job search was done within like a month or two. All of it on company time too, as I wasn’t really motivated to waste my off-time on it. Even took a sick day to go to an in-person interview.
Now since I turned in my 3-months notice I’ve been spending at least half of every working day playing video games. Currently obsessed with Squeakross: Home Squeak Home, which is a Rat-themed Picross game. (10/10, would recommend btw, it’s super cute)
Anyways, my manager ran some “diagnostics” for our yearly performance reviews recently and seems like the new architect they hired like 10 months ago is finally starting to catch up to me in the “Story points per sprint” metric. This guy was exclusively hired because he promised my manager that he’s super smart about “Agentic AI coding” and all that shit. Well, our LiteLLM is severely misconfigured, so I can see that he’s spending about 600€ on Claude tokens per month. I can only imagine what his salary is too. Easy to say I’m probably nowhere close to wasting as many company funds as he is.
Back when I was applying for other jobs I tried to use the company mandated AI to generate (or at least write a few paragraphs for) my CV. It turned out like shit and sounded completely insincere and fake. So I decided to not use AI at all for my job search. Wrote and formatted a nice 1-page CV by hand and simply didn’t apply to any positions that required a cover letter (cover letters are a waste of time imo).
Applied to maybe 50 or so places, got 3 interviews and 3 offers. Job search was done within like a month or two. All of it on company time too, as I wasn’t really motivated to waste my off-time on it. Even took a sick day to go to an in-person interview.
Now since I turned in my 3-months notice I’ve been spending at least half of every working day playing video games. Currently obsessed with Squeakross: Home Squeak Home, which is a Rat-themed Picross game. (10/10, would recommend btw, it’s super cute)
Anyways, my manager ran some “diagnostics” for our yearly performance reviews recently and seems like the new architect they hired like 10 months ago is finally starting to catch up to me in the “Story points per sprint” metric. This guy was exclusively hired because he promised my manager that he’s super smart about “Agentic AI coding” and all that shit. Well, our LiteLLM is severely misconfigured, so I can see that he’s spending about 600€ on Claude tokens per month. I can only imagine what his salary is too. Easy to say I’m probably nowhere close to wasting as many company funds as he is.