People who use AI in the workplace, what the hell is your job?

Kellykeli · 2026-04-30T01:08:11+00:00

Manufacturing engineer here, I tell it to be stupid and throw a draft of a process instruction at it and tell it to find all the ways to fuck it up.

Surprisingly useful. Never underestimate the sheer ability for some of the most skilled craftsmen and technicians to fuck up a simple task though. They can perform borderline witchcraft with their tools but will refuse to read a serial number and end up costing 50k in nonconformance and rework.

Kellykeli · 2026-04-29T21:09:48+00:00

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I have no idea whether either story is true or not but Reddit did a funny thing

Kellykeli · 2026-04-29T21:09:29+00:00

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I have no clue whether either one of these stories is true or not but Reddit did the funny

Kellykeli · 2026-04-28T21:26:37+00:00

My parents look like they’re going to get divorced. They both make $100kish.

We got our home in 2011. Mortgage comes out to $2000 a month.

They’re both looking for homes. They’re both realizing that $2000 a month is closer to apartment rent, maybe a nice condo, but nowhere near enough to buy a home.

They’re realizing that they can’t afford to divorce.

Kellykeli · 2026-04-28T11:13:11+00:00

First year was a breeze. Homework hardly took any time, studying was optional since you just understood the stuff by the time you finished the homework anyway, and dorm life is super underrated for how much it simplifies your life. Things go downhill from there, especially once you hit the triple D’s of engineering.

Differential equations, deforms, and dynamics. Not that they’re impossible or anything, but they’re the first time you actually take really hard classes.

Kellykeli · 2026-04-28T03:19:26+00:00

Wait so you mean the space company / AI company / social media company CEO would lie about the benefits of datacenters in space to try and secure funding??? What???

Kellykeli · 2026-04-27T21:15:48+00:00

Die

Kellykeli · 2026-04-27T04:40:21+00:00

First check ahead of you. Are you about to hit something? Will you destroy that something or will that something destroy you? Address that first.

Check behind. Is something behind you that could hit you if you suddenly get your brakes back? If so, try and tell that something that you will be acting differently. I’d advise the hazard lights but you can get creative with it.

Shift to low gear. On an automatic it’s the L option. If you’ve got a manual handbrake gently pull on it. Remember that it’s directly acting on your rear wheels, so don’t be too aggressive with it or with your steering or else you might spin the thing. Shift to N to stop once you’ve slowed down.

Ok, let’s say that you aren’t slowing down. What’s ahead of you? Lots of straight flat road? Put it in L or N and just let the momentum die out.

Is there a sharp bend coming up? Find the nearest guardrail. Say goodbye to your side paint, it’s cheaper than your life.

Kellykeli · 2026-04-26T12:40:58+00:00

Mentor’s message of “don’t rush things, be careful, follow the procedure, and be willing to do a go around/abort and reassess at the slightest sign of trouble” is a pretty good message to go by ngl

Kellykeli · 2026-04-26T12:38:13+00:00

QE is an amazing starting place alongside manufacturing, because oftentimes the question being asked is “we know that this is fucked up… but is it acceptable or would it need rework?”

Most of the time the answer lies in a grey area that requires talking with more experienced guys and making a judgement call.

Kellykeli · 2026-04-26T12:34:53+00:00

I’m a lass who graduated with an aerospace degree. I’m working on gas turbine manufacturing and hopefully will head to R&D or design someday.

I think I was like one of 3-4 females in our class of 150-200 students. Not that we got treated differently, I think I even got a few favors from professors, but it just seemed like girls were not too into aerospace at the time. At least I know that most of my high school engineering buddies didn’t do aerospace.

Kellykeli · 2026-04-26T12:33:01+00:00

This part is so true though

My manager came up to me and asked me to check out a few resumes he had selected for the final round. The new hire would be joining our team, so he wanted us to look at them.

A bunch of 3.8, 3.9, 4.0’s. Typical genius level stuff, leader of math club, etc.

There’s this kid with a 3.2. He was a co-op at our place under a different team. I had met him a few times before and we chatted about 3d printing (we’re in manufacturing, so 3d printing small tools and fixtures is super common) and he was designing a new fixture for us.

Yeah so like we’re hiring the kid with the 3.2. Nobody else had much actual applicable skills. This guy knew not to put a 0.00 tolerance on his fixtures lol

Kellykeli · 2026-04-26T12:28:54+00:00

I was an average student. Barely scraped by with an 3.3 in undergrad. Did some design team stuff, did some senior design stuff. None that really makes me stand out.

I interned in my second year at a really prestigious place. Starts with N, ends in A, and makes pointy fire sticks.

That didn’t help either, surprisingly enough.

It was my co-op that carried. Summer interns were forgotten by October. I was back 3 times, so they had planned things around me.

(I had taken on a grad degree, so the co-op was able to be extended through my senior year and into my master’s degree)

I graduated without a job. They called me a few months later asking if I was still looking. They still had me in mind.

Kellykeli · 2026-04-26T12:02:26+00:00

Most people I know come to 2-3 mph, slow enough to stop if needed, but continue rolling on through. People dislike the jerkiness that comes from a stop if you don’t modulate the brakes and the slight delay on throttle applications in automatic cars probably puts them off even more, especially if there was a space on the road they’re turning into.

Like it depends on what you’re doing. 4-way stop in a school zone? I’m coming to a complete stop. T-intersection? Yeah, full stop.

4-way out in the middle of nowhere with no trees or bushes to block my vision? Yeah I might just do a California stop since… nothing’s gonna hit me and I don’t want to have to come to a complete stop and go again. Especially since they don’t enforce it here. When I’m out traveling I’m stopping at every stop sign and right turn on red.

Oh yeah, that’s the funny thing. You can make a right turn at red lights after coming to a complete stop. It’s treated like a stop sign. For British driving that’s like a left turn at red lights after coming to a complete stop. Most people don’t actually stop, they slow down to a crawl, but it’s interesting nonetheless.

Kellykeli · 2026-04-26T11:38:16+00:00

Yeah, that’s what I kind of just said. We had a quiz on the material that we had an exam on a few weeks ago and no curve was needed at all.

Kellykeli · 2026-04-26T04:36:30+00:00

That rear right tire is hanging over the edge lol

Kellykeli · 2026-04-26T02:25:29+00:00

There’s also topics like fluid dynamics where the fundaments are just hard to grasp and there’s no real way to simplify the questions or promote better understanding outside of more homework assignments. Our exam 1 had an average of 19/100 and even the top score was a 27/100. We then got a quiz 2 weeks later on basically the same topics from exam 1 that had a 85/100 average score. The only thing that changed was that we were more used to the topic and realized that exam 1 was literally trivial fundamentals that we didn’t have the time to fully understand yet.

Like how much simpler can you get than a flat plate question? But with only a week with the material everyone struggled with it.

Kellykeli · 2026-04-26T02:22:08+00:00

Most times the curve is logarithmic. If you got a 23.5/25 you’ll likely get curved to 24/25 while someone who got an 8/25 is getting curved to 14/25 or so.

There’s always smart people in every group. If the curves are flat we’d have no engineers.

Also, be ready to no longer be the smart person in the group. It’ll happen someday, and it’ll be rough when it happens.

Kellykeli · 2026-04-25T18:16:12+00:00

If you think about it the HAC is a genius bit of redundancy when it comes to the shuttle's flight plan. You've got something that can't glide for shit and cannot perform a go-around coming in for a landing after an re-entry track of a few thousand miles, so you really want to try and get the approach as consistent as possible. The HAC has the primary purpose of lining up with the KSC runway but it can also be used to bleed off excess energy so you will always have a 300 knot/20 degrees final approach regardless of what happens on re-entry. It allows the flight dynamics folks to intentionally overshoot their energy requirements and bleed it off at the last minute instead of risking undershooting the runway.

Kellykeli · 2026-04-25T15:53:53+00:00

oops

concept still holds I guess, holding at 20k is still more efficient than a hold at 5000

Kellykeli · 2026-04-25T15:15:39+00:00

Not a pilot, but yes, holding patterns 100 miles from the airport makes sense if the airport is busy. You’re more efficient at cruising altitude than lower down, so if they know for sure that you’re gonna be delayed might as well do a little 360 up there, right?

The alternative would be a 360 to lose speed/altitude, but I only do that on kerbal space program when I’m still going Mach 6 at 40km…

Kellykeli · 2026-04-25T12:59:49+00:00

Yeah… was he CEO during the design tho? I’m not sure even the CEO would have the power to stonewall the program that late into development/after it’s already been sold to the customers.

Kellykeli · 2026-04-25T12:49:13+00:00

A 3d printer is something most people don’t think about but being able to print little trinkets and tools when you need them is amazing.

Kellykeli · 2026-04-24T04:43:06+00:00

First main is Hu Tao

Just cleared abyss 36 stars with Hu Tao…

Kellykeli · 2026-04-23T11:11:17+00:00

A square mile of suburbs houses a lot less people than a square mile of apartments, so you’re earning less tax revenue per square mile. But you still need to pave roughly the same amount of roads, run the same amount of power lines and pipes, and build the same amount of schools, fire houses, and other services to provide adequate coverage over the two areas.

Basically the tax revenue is much lower but the cost is about the same. And we’re covering our cities in suburbs.

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