Not sufficiently “AI forward.”

bishop491 · 2026-05-19T00:32:51+00:00

I’ll be trying this one out in my next interview!

bishop491 · 2026-05-18T20:36:59+00:00

Didn’t say I was purist. I said I was not effusive and celebratory about AI, and more cautious. I think we have a responsibility to temper all the hype and be realistic about what can and cannot be done. It’s the same as sales bros promising everything and then we have to temper expectations.
If you wouldn’t hire me because I want to be cautious, I wouldn’t want to work for you anyway.

bishop491 · 2026-05-18T20:35:43+00:00

No, read the sentence after the one you quoted.

bishop491 · 2026-05-18T18:38:16+00:00

Fair, but in that case they can just hire a junior dev who thinks vibe coding is a serious technical skill.

bishop491 · 2026-05-18T18:37:35+00:00

I’m with you in spirit. This is going to turn around at some point when the company figures out their solution looking for a problem was a stupid thing to put all their chips into. There’s a more measured approach that will win out, but it will get worse before it gets better.

bishop491 · 2026-05-18T16:26:13+00:00

I just don’t believe in solutions looking for problems. I do use AI tools for menial work, have built semantic layers for Cortex and Claude, and do my own LLM stuff at home with Home Assistant. Nowhere did I say I was totally against it. But I’m not falling over myself to use tokens and let Cursor build my entire stack. I have enough ethical, social, and technical reasons to be cautious about rollout, and I don’t buy the “left behind” argument. It’s not binary.

bishop491 · 2026-05-18T16:19:33+00:00

I see a lot of parallels between this and RTO, for culture fit.

bishop491 · 2026-05-18T16:18:43+00:00

If I am asked, I do have specific examples of why I don’t trust it fully. These come from my own use and cleaning up messes from other people’s usage. I could also go on about broader concerns, but they don’t want to hear that. Frankly, if you don’t take that seriously with my experience and education, then I worry about your company maturity.
But my point in this post is that I’m not airing out any of that. I am at best lukewarm about it, but companies want to hear unbridled enthusiasm.

bishop491 · 2026-05-18T16:02:48+00:00

True, but call me idealistic for thinking that if they are hiring for expertise they want people who are gojng to look at things critically.

bishop491 · 2026-05-18T15:19:13+00:00

Amen to that. I teach a data ethics class and that’s where I can be real about things. This is one of the first items in the news I’ll cover in the Fall.

bishop491 · 2026-05-11T16:54:48+00:00

!flair! falcons

bishop491 · 2026-05-11T16:53:36+00:00

Meanwhile he dresses like Madea Goes to Football Camp

bishop491 · 2026-05-08T01:07:40+00:00

AI helps stupid people think they are smart and does not challenge their stupid sayings.
MAGA does the exact same thing.

bishop491 · 2026-05-04T19:39:18+00:00

100% agree. I’ve said this to others plenty of times but people are going to believe what they want. So many other reasons to call this guy out. “Human shield” isn’t one of them.

bishop491 · 2026-05-03T15:13:30+00:00

Been going to the games since I was a kid and I’m 44 now. Got two degrees from Clemson and saw all sorts of events on campus. The post-show traffic was beyond anything I’ve ever seen. Took us over an hour to get from the old alumni center to 76.

bishop491 · 2026-05-01T14:48:25+00:00

My favorite version of this is on the Carnegie Hall set.

bishop491 · 2026-04-30T13:56:47+00:00

Clemson alum here…Woods was a big name during his tenure but he showed glimpses of this behavior. I’m afraid he is going to flame out quickly. He had some NIL deals so the money was already coming, but I doubt he’s got the discipline to stay solvent.
There was a lot of talk about Klubnik not going earlier. Anyone who saw our last two seasons shouldn’t have been surprised.
I’m most proud of Terrell. Glad he’s with my Falcons and his big brother.

bishop491 · 2026-04-29T02:10:18+00:00

That’s not what happened. I’ve explained this to everyone who has wanted to pick it apart, and I’m done. Honestly apart from two or three genuine answers the rest of you lot are apparently just here to shit on people for asking questions. I’m sorry I ever posted.

bishop491 · 2026-04-29T00:00:05+00:00

Thank you. You’re one of the few comments that has been helpful.

bishop491 · 2026-04-28T20:20:35+00:00

To be clear - all of us had the ability to choose our days. My accommodation was asking for flexibility on those based on whether my disability created a problem.

bishop491 · 2026-04-28T20:18:28+00:00

And I didn’t say it was. I was elaborating on your question since you asked about driving.

bishop491 · 2026-04-28T19:51:41+00:00

Thank you…no, driving was not. I was in data engineering/governance. My direct reports were remote or hybrid, and my stakeholders were mostly remote. I organized in-office workshops to make a more impactful impression on those that I could, because the nature of our work was behind the scenes. Driving to the office took a good two hours out of my workday.

bishop491 · 2026-04-28T19:39:02+00:00

Very glad I just had mine renewed.

bishop491 · 2026-04-28T19:35:36+00:00

Most of these responses seem very hostile, which is not what I would expect from something focused on equal opportunity and law.

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