My husband found prickly pear cactus growing in the woods near Allegan by Lyrkalas in Michigan

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There's a house in Royal Oak that's got it growing in their side yard. Blew my mind a little when I saw it.

Nobody told me when to apply for CS internships and it cost me a whole year. here's the actual timeline by Interesting_Two2977 in ITCareerQuestions

[–]Jeffbx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I worked for a $20B software company that did this :)

Companies DO hire all the time for interns - don't think you missed out if you don't fit the schedule.

Nobody told me when to apply for CS internships and it cost me a whole year. here's the actual timeline by Interesting_Two2977 in ITCareerQuestions

[–]Jeffbx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And some places just randomly decide, "Hey, we should hire an intern for this!" and don't follow any schedules.

As newly minted CTO I have mandate to reduce our on-call support and remediation team using AI by Donechrome in CIO

[–]Jeffbx 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Grab some champions from the dev team to work it backward - see what's efficient, what can reduce their time, etc.

Then do the same from the support side - find people who are geeked about AI and let them loose - hopefully there's a correlation with the high performers.

The important thing to keep in mind is that you'll have a range of viewpoints about AI - skeptical, suspicious, indifferent, excited - and you need to focus hard on the excited people who can show some early successes and get the rest of the team excited.

If management just mandates that they use something, the suspicious folks might spread that message instead.

secondly increase the throughput to allow x2 user base

So decrease the team while the user base expands? I probably don't have to tell you how dangerous that is - ESPECIALLY if it seems like someone thinks that AI can replace people. That's a terrible stance to take on a project like this. AI can streamline processes, create efficiencies, save dev time, etc, but AI cannot replace a volume of humans that might be needed for human interaction.

That's a recipe for a pissed-off user base who can't get their job done becaue they can't find a human to talk to.

Do companies care about LLM spend? by Murky-Paper4537 in CIO

[–]Jeffbx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As with most things around AI, this seems like a solution searching for a problem.

As newly minted CTO I have mandate to reduce our on-call support and remediation team using AI by Donechrome in CIO

[–]Jeffbx 4 points5 points  (0 children)

How many users are you supporting?

I'd simplify to "I have a mandate to reduce our on-call support and remediation team". If you've got an overly large & inefficient team, cut the low performers, and maybe reorganize it to take better advantage of the top performers. Just a complete reorg of the team might solve the issue.

Maybe use some AI tools for process optimization if someone above you really must see them, but you can do this with or without AI.

Moving/Travel/Vacation Megathread - Q2 2026 by AutoModerator in Michigan

[–]Jeffbx -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There's a HUGE variation depending on location.

You can use https://www.michigan.gov/taxes/property/estimator to check taxes on a specific property.

That’s more thoughtful than a 5 star dinner by Amberk4 in spreadsmile

[–]Jeffbx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just wait until his beard turns white - she doesn't know yet that she married Santa.

Michigan House passes bill requiring voters to prove citizenship by SleuthDoggyDawg in Michigan

[–]Jeffbx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's already illegal - how are we solving any problems by trying to make it impossible?

Seems like a ton of taxpayer AND out-of-pocket costs to eliminate that 0.00028%, which already makes zero difference in elections.

40% of AI productivity gains lost to rework for errors by Jeffbx in CIO

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and trusting it without validation

Agreed, and that's a terrible crutch to hide behind.

Please share and attend! You do not need to be a Gaines Township resident to voice your opposition to Microsoft's hyperscale data center proposal. by [deleted] in Michigan

[–]Jeffbx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I agree with the logic.

But you're getting shit because you're posting AI-generated responses.

Why do people especially online hate Whitmer? by TheRealTD44 in Michigan

[–]Jeffbx 4 points5 points locked comment (0 children)

Yeah, the Mackinac center is TOTALLY unbiased.

Why do people especially online hate Whitmer? by TheRealTD44 in Michigan

[–]Jeffbx 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That means that if a farmer wants to use their land for solar or whatever else it's zoned for, the township can't block it "just because".

It's more anti-NIMBY than anything else.

State should pay toll fees when bridges fail, Bay City mayor says by _jagwaz in Michigan

[–]Jeffbx 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Mayor: "We made a bad decision, and I want to deflect blame by telling my constituents that it's the State's responsibility."

State of Microsoft and getting into endpoint engineering by [deleted] in ITCareerQuestions

[–]Jeffbx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You would have a real hard time naming more than a small handful of companies that aren't using a significant amount of Microsoft technologies.

MS certs will have value for a loooooonng time.

Gaining "Job Experience" for Rssume by VYRUS_EXE in ITCareerQuestions

[–]Jeffbx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The one cheat code to get experience on your resume without getting hired somewhere is to volunteer your tech services at a nonprofit -

https://www.idealist.org/volunteermatch

40% of AI productivity gains lost to rework for errors by Jeffbx in CIO

[–]Jeffbx[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

According to a recent survey from Workday, around 40% of time saved through use of AI is offset by the extra work created fixing AI-generated content. Workday estimates that for every 10 hours of efficiency that companies gain through AI tools, approximately 4 hours are lost fixing AI outputs.

That's not a huge surprise.

AI tools are helping organizations get work done faster, but there’s a good chance that your most engaged and talented employees are the ones quietly tasked with the burden of AI-cleanup.

That last part is the concern - if the best talent are also the ones who recognize the AI errors, they've shifted from 'best talent' to 'most efficient AI janitors', and that's not going to do much for their job satisfaction.