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One of my developers was a brand new junior, having started her first job post-college just a few …

… One of my developers was a brand new junior, having started her first job post-college just a few months before I started at the company. When I first met her, she apologized to me. She hadn't done anything, she was just that kind of mousy person whose obviously been ground down by everyone around her for her entire life. I started making her deliver our project status updates. I also give her full projects that she works on her own with no input from me, other than whatever advice she herself asks of me. She finished her master's degree in computer science last year and also recently bought a house. One of my more recent developers came to us from after 10 years of working on-site on military bases. She'd been stuck in a corner, made to maintain large legacy projects on her own, over looked for promotion her entire career. She's one of the best project managers I've ever seen. I have her deliver all of our presentations to the C-suite (and there are a lot of them). She just got engaged and I recently got her promoted for the first time in her career. …

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kleiba2HN

Maybe it's just me, but when I was younger one reason that got me into AI research was the idea that one day we would have these seemingly intelligent entities that we could talk to and interact with just like we do with humans. Now that we have that, everybody hates it. Except me. I still like this. There might still be room for improvement, yes, but I think this is a cool attempt to making AI agents part of the team. I think what could help make this better is investing into giving agents actual personality, instead of them being just sycophantic clones of each other. AI agents as team members should have clear aspects of distinction both in their abilities and behaviors.

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codegrapplerHN

While I really had to hold on to the end to get the point of the reply, I appreciated the stories. You sound like a great coach/mentor.

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kleiba2HN

Thanks for your great input. But you might have mistaken what I was trying to get at - certainly not that there's no difference between a computer program and a person.

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cattenwallenHN

I'm currently new to northern virginia, a software dev. You sound like a great mentor and I would love to meet you for coffee sometime.

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bonoboTPHN

> We only do any of this shit because it's in the service of people. Where does the money come from that was used for those houses? From you? Oh, that's great, then keep handing out housefuls of money to people in your life that you appreciate. What? It was from someone else? Why did that someone else hand over that money? Because of "service of people"? Did they say so?

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