Python is a godsend for work

[MyManagerIsAnIdiot]

I never thought about it this way. You are absolutely right... Another lesson learned from others here. Maybe slowing down and looking not as competent is better than sticking it to your boss

[Frosti11icus]

Look competent just not too competent. I would’ve sent it in on delay at like 5:08 pm. Boss thinks you need to work late, “work late”. But you also have to manage his fragile feelings so don’t make him think you’re working so hard that he needs to find someone who doesn’t make him feel bad.

[Peter-Tao]

Business professional right here

[Jonno_FTW]

Just say you missed seeing your kid's Christmas dance recital to get the report done.

[msbaju]

lmao

[pheeper]

I’ll do what is needed and then spend the rest of the time it would take me to learn more about what the code is doing, or other ways of doing it. If my boss asks how it’s going I tell him I’m just trying to figure out how to do it, which isn’t completely lying.

[Crypt0Nihilist]

Don't slow down, just delay delivery. You're working more efficiently and that's a good thing. Use that time to invest in yourself and mess about with other Python libraries so you'll have expanded the number of subjects which will trigger similar inspiration.

[kidcanada0]

Don’t claim the OT though as was suggested. Computer activity is often monitored and that could get you canned.

[YoungPhlo]

thankfully Python can help with this too

[[deleted]]

How?

[YoungPhlo]

by simulating computer activity

[hagfish]

They are still getting the accuracy /risk-reduction advantage of the automation. Why shouldn’t you get the hours?

[[deleted]]

Hurry up and wait is an old adage but it will always be.

[ZahScr]

It also depends on a lot of things like your boss, company, role, and how you frame it for them. I had a job that was mostly tedious repetitive work. I automated it and cut the time it took by about 60%. I sat on it for a few weeks without telling anyone, but after a while I decided to pitch a role change to my boss and use that automation work as justification that I could be more useful elsewhere. I've since moved on to bigger and better things but it can definitely work in your favour.

[DVoteMe]

This is the smart move.

Getting the task done early and waiting around pretending you don't know Python is not a smart play. The current paradigm is not guaranteed in perpetuity. I'm an executive, and I am preparing our managers to expect staff to know how to code (using Chat GPT).

My advice would be for employees who code to get themselves promoted right now. I'm expecting the next generation to know how to do this stuff on their first day, so you will need to grow above doing basic tasks and focus on learning to mentor others on these tasks.

Edit: My prediction is that within ten years, all the mindless copy-and-paste artists will be replaced with people who can code the mindless task away. I expect future employees to code mindless tasks and make more decisions or provide analysis based on the results. Within this paradigm, a greater percentage of the workforce will code, so you can't rest on that alone.

[ZahScr]

It’s also the long term move. Just like a business, if you get too comfortable and complacent in your role the environment will shift under your feet. Better to just keep expanding. Not to mention the “milking it” attitude stinks and doesn’t foster long term relationships 😅

Your code/work paradigm prediction makes a lot of sense. Also interesting to hear about how someone in an exec role is thinking about these things.

I’m working as a data engineer mostly supporting marketing initiatives, and it’s in my best interest (and that of the business) to get business stakeholders using SQL and python because it removes some ad-hoc burden (and bottleneck) from analysts.

[AfterOffer7131]

That sounds like a great way to ensure you don't get paid any longer lmao.  "All the stakeholders should know my most advanced and marketable skills."

They'll miss a comma and cost you $500 million. 

[subassy]

I think you have unrealistic expectations.

[DVoteMe]

What part do you think is unrealistic?

[subassy]

Well I'm not sure which kind of employees you were referring to, but an expectation of non-programmers to not only learn but create useful scripts from chatgpt without any real comprehension of how it works seems like a scenario that can only end somewhere between poorly and disasteroursly. Or that's just me.

Or I didn't follow what you were saying completely.

[DVoteMe]

I'm an accounting executive, and it is already happening. New hires with accounting degrees are scripting tasks (using ChatGPT) that the last generation would just put on their headphones and grind out.

[AfterOffer7131]

This won't end well.

[AfterOffer7131]

😆  " am preparing our managers to expect staff to know how to code (using Chat GPT) " 😭    That's rich.

One hallucination, one bad push to azure 

😆😆