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1 year agoOn Reddit. That subreddit with pics of people who have passed - last images or something. The picture was a daughter, maybe 7 or 8, asleep on her dad’s arm, with the dad also asleep. The post was by the mom who explained that her daughter died in a house fire and not long after the dad killed himself.
I think about that post and picture now and then. I’ve got a daughter around the same age who often falls asleep on my arm in the same manner. I don’t know what I’d do in the same situation.
This was several years ago. I found the post recently after a lot of searching, but contents had been deleted, and I couldn’t find it on any of the archive sites.
I write C code for complex embedded products and systems in an industry where change is intentionally a long and drawn out process. Projects take years and support contracts last decades. AI isn’t widely used but it’s available. Most of those that I work with don’t use it at all, and those that do use it use it for cursory tasks like generating reports for management - busy work stuff. There’s talk of it eventually being used for writing and updating tests, the least favorite part of the job. Will it come for more aspects of my job? Probably, and probably sooner than I want.