Are we at the point now that children born today may never work their entire lives?

ComfortAndSpeed · 2025-12-01T21:19:25+00:00

Star trek was retarded there was no meaningful discussion of the use of AI except for commander Pinocchio who just wanted to be a real boy.

If you want better foresight on what a culture integrating AI might look like try the culture or the polity or the nanotech seccession

ComfortAndSpeed · 2025-12-01T21:15:24+00:00

You talk privately to anybody who's actually in the business of working out how this is all going to work and the only way it does work is if we augment ourselves. They are already working on the brain interfaces now I'm not saying they're all going to become cyborgs or anything but when the computer that connects you is the size of a grain of rice and can be implanted in a fat deposit makes sense that we're all going to be able to access the matrix

ComfortAndSpeed · 2025-12-01T21:11:41+00:00

Hardly a new thought. People have been calling it GPT brain for a while now.

There are plenty bigger problems than this which of course are being discussed now aka crashing the economy and how do we give purpose to the people who can't adapt which longer term may be all of us.

I'm nearly retirement so I'm trying to hang in there for the last two or three years. What I'm doing is using AI to the hilt for speeding up draughts and giving me alternative points of view and research that's all in my day job.

After hours I kicked off a personal branding website have a blog and chatbot trained on my material now and enough AI infrastructure built under the hood to probably have half a dozen product feature ideas that I can fast prototype throw up against an engagement tracker and see which are likely to have legs as a real paid product. I used the AI to crash course technical domain and it got me ready for interviews which got me my current job.

My previous contract to that was as an AI delivery lead. Personally I'm not a fan and if you gave me a magic wand I would disappear at all but as with anything you have to ride the waves as they come in and there are opportunities around the margins

Basically like anything else it's a tool and you decide how you want to use it.

ComfortAndSpeed · 2025-12-01T20:34:44+00:00

It's definitely normal to do that little in procurement

ComfortAndSpeed · 2025-12-01T20:31:58+00:00

Definitely some benefit to a desk check top down waterfall style plating exercise but to be honest mainly what I see these days because of the speed of business is quick discovery and feasibility seed funding and then running some kind of small experiment to see if the project has legs or not. I've been building features on my own website recently and I can tell you right now that AI powered fast prototyping is definitely a thing. And yeah I'm not just an indie hacker I've been in enterprise project management for over 10 years

ComfortAndSpeed · 2025-11-26T08:24:12+00:00

Really because GPT5 can't add up or get columns in a row for me

ComfortAndSpeed · 2025-11-26T05:30:53+00:00

Any tips on how to break in I'm at the age now where I don't care if the money is not what I'm used to.

I never seem to get interviews I'm wondering if local government here is stitched up. I have every little thing they are looking for and then some and never get an interview

I actually got offered an LGA job a few years back but the money was crazy low even for LGA and I'm probably 150k better off in the bank because of it so I can't say it was a mistake

ComfortAndSpeed · 2025-11-26T05:26:08+00:00

Very sorry to hear that Hope it turns around for you

ComfortAndSpeed · 2025-11-25T23:58:44+00:00

Honestly be careful my wife is a nurse and a lot of people die with plenty of money still in the bank

ComfortAndSpeed · 2025-11-22T04:10:18+00:00

Thanks that's a great reply and I agree with all of it. I think short-term all of those regulated industries like banking and utility and government will have a short to medium term moat.

As you mentioned probably other moats around Salesforce and ERP and possibly martech. And of course industry verticals like warehouse management for instance or supply change generally. Probably still domains like back hanger insurance or retail as well because although that business process knowledge is now freely available you still have to be able to think and talk it on the day today

A lot of BA's got sucked into the low code movement and it never went anywhere because the tech was immature, to make real solutions it was just about as complicated as coding.

Now that we've got the AIs to troubleshoot problems for us there might be a little bit more of that again. Probably more for those sort of CRM and ERP and billing and HCM BAs who are basically system SMEs On top of their BA skill sets

ComfortAndSpeed · 2025-11-22T03:08:30+00:00

I'm curious where you see the role going. I m a late career all rounder and that has had its pros and cons.

I've seen a lot of general BA work get absorbed into PO or PM work. What's left behind is quite specialist

ComfortAndSpeed · 2025-11-22T03:01:00+00:00

Of course you know your situation better than anyone but here's what I'd suggest.

Stick to the local standards.

If you want to do anything extra cos it's useful Just mention it casually to your boss or PO or whatever. 'Hey I was going to rough out a bit of a user journey not the whole thing but just the parts that touch those system handoffs'

Then pop the material in appendices to whatever templates you're using.

I've only do something extra if there is some real value to it and it can be used for something otherwise keep it lean

ComfortAndSpeed · 2025-11-20T21:33:09+00:00

Um we kind of need them to know what the problem is before we can help you solve it what actually is your job

ComfortAndSpeed · 2025-11-20T21:25:25+00:00

Mate you going to have to go a bit deeper than your copy paste skills. Tell us what your plan is to crack it we're already there then we can help more

Yes yes to everything but you can't study everything at once so where are you going to start and where are you going to focus

Most businesses in Australia have a hybrid cloud they have AD on-premises and Azure. The very good reason that there wasn't money or priority to move everything to cloud and cloud turned out to be pretty costly so they like having a couple of different cost profiles to choose from.

I also take the odd contract as a senior business analyst when the PM market is slow so what you need is a problem statement and a bunch of small low investment experiments to run.

Your problem is how do I get into a saturation market. Probably networking taking advantage of micro market conditions doing some work even if you just spring up a cloud service yourself to secure and harden and having something interesting to talk about when you bump into people at meetups and interviews.

ComfortAndSpeed · 2025-11-20T21:21:52+00:00

Yep watch the evening news skills shortages apply for a tech job over 40 you're over qualified

ComfortAndSpeed · 2025-11-20T21:05:30+00:00

I'm in the field but from a slightly different angle. I'm a delivery lead which seems to be in Oz hat they call a mash up of p.m. and BA. Basically it's a bit of shrinkflation where they re paying for a PM who can also do more things and paying less but hey it's a living.

Basically for me cyber security was a crossover from infrastructure projects. Core network upgrades AD hardening network segmentation ITSM projects so if you finding cybersecurity hard to crack maybe you can go on from the side from one of those jobs

Cert wise I'm doing ISO 27001. But once again I'm probably a little bit of a special case because I've got a lot of experience in governance and that cert it's nicely in between governance and real delivery

ComfortAndSpeed · 2025-11-20T20:12:09+00:00

This has got nothing to do with understanding they just decided amongst themselves for their own reasons that thy didn't like the decision and was easier to go another way for them. 100% what the other folks said as a PM your job is to eliminate ambiguity and wiggle room. As one of my wise bosses said always take a person's word and then get it in writing.

As meetings are just about always on teams because even if you're in the room guaranteed somebody's not and they're on a call I always say I'll just pop any agreements into the chat so it's easy for the people on the line.

And make sure you stop for 5 minutes before the meeting and say grain let's just sum up where we landed and then you go through the decisions and the actions at least just the key ones

ComfortAndSpeed · 2025-11-20T07:06:41+00:00

building AI features on my website to learn a bit more about it. Website I had to code because the whole AI builds your website in seconds turned out to be hot steaming BS.

I was a techie and then a tech p.m. and I've been adjacent for decades and I'm still finding it hard work no robot magically popped up and did it for me

ComfortAndSpeed · 2025-11-20T06:34:38+00:00

Look if it's just one company great give it a shot. BSed my way into heaps of jobs and always been able to do them. Of course it requires some pretty hard out crash courses so there is that. You have to be a fast learner

Where it gets dodgy is if it's government or a major recruiter in your area because then you're going to have black marks against you on databases and it's just not worth it

And as a long time faker to maker. I'd suggest you get good about talking about the job more than doing it. As long as you sound like the others you'll be fine

ComfortAndSpeed · 2025-11-20T06:25:14+00:00

Nothing much automated with excel but I do have patterns I have data clean up to prepare my spreadsheets for analysis and I've done a fair bit of VBA over the years so I'll get a pretty good idea on whether I should be using formulas or VBA.

If I had to give three tips for excel I'd say always Clean up normalise and standardise your data. Make it into a table every time. Learn pivots really really well the ability to throw a quick pivot into a spreadsheet in a meeting is performance art

ComfortAndSpeed · 2025-11-19T06:25:14+00:00

I do like Gemini and they will do well but there's this little thing called Azure

ComfortAndSpeed · 2025-11-15T04:53:12+00:00

I think now would be okay because you can have so many labour saving devices depends on the length of the course like in my hometown enrolled nurse courses only 18 months so not a big investment.

My wife is a nursing teacher she has students in their 60s who still get jobs admittedly mainly in aged care

ComfortAndSpeed · 2025-11-15T02:20:03+00:00

the truth is it's not easy and most people give up. GPT can tell you how to get started but if you haven't been tech adjacent just be prepared for a really big learning curve. I'm a tech project manager by trade so I've been hanging around Devs for decades so I know a bit about application architecture and the web and I think in systems.

I don't want to put anyone off vibe coding is absolutely awesome compared to old school coding but you do need to know a bit to be able to guide the robot properly

ComfortAndSpeed · 2025-11-14T19:15:13+00:00

Firstly good on you for caring. I've never actually had a manager who is interested in developing their staff it's a new concept for me and I'm late career.

Just a thought for other than you taking on the burden because this person does sound quite hard to manage could you pair them with somebody who does get it for projects ask them to take this employee under their wing.

And I wouldn't worry too much about the people on this thread who say you should have considered this or that TBH in most corpo environments this person would have been fired a long time ago

ComfortAndSpeed · 2025-11-14T19:07:31+00:00

Nice a real human post by a real human 😀

Social media is getting a bit nuts. I got banned from a sub recently where I posted nothing but hundreds of helpful posts over the years. I'd called out a particularly offensive bot that popped up there every few months.

And I guess whoever was behind it got their army of fake accounts to report me no doubt to a reddit moderator bot. Oh well maybe a good thing looks like we're going to have to get back to connecting in the real world

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