tldr; this is only possible in a narrow range of jobs and if you're job is susceptible to this it probably shouldn't exist.
Interesting article as usual sir but some of the points made with respect to the nature of engineering work will only work with a certain type of role. In my 25 years experience as a safety and reliability engineer i…
tldr; this is only possible in a narrow range of jobs and if you're job is susceptible to this it probably shouldn't exist.
Interesting article as usual sir but some of the points made with respect to the nature of engineering work will only work with a certain type of role. In my 25 years experience as a safety and reliability engineer in the robotics and transportation industries (aerospace and rail) the type of fraudulent "faking it" you are suggesting would be almost immediately revealed and detected by colleagues and customers. I have been working 100% remotely for the last three years and I am required every single day to think quickly on my feet in order to solve a vast array of varied technical issues on embedded software and control systems ranging from avionics to rail signaling and control. These problems are almost always urgent as they are related to potential or actual hazardous situations. One simply couldn't fake performance of my job or be mentally or physically absent without detection and AI isn't nearly up to doing any of the technical analysis related to my work yet. Someday maybe but that day is still probably at least a decade away. Things like error and failure consequence analysis, real time troubleshooting and fault detection and correction of complex embedded systems is still beyond the capabilities of AI. I have a hard time imagining that many other industries such as power generation, automotive and other manufacturing aren't similarly difficult to fake. What you are suggesting has a narrower application I believe than what you are suggesting. I agree on all points about corporations and the meaninglessness of most work in them. For myself, I don't work for the corporation I work for the people in my team and in the hope that I am making safer vehicles and systems. It's not much but it's honest work LOL! I'm just not sure what you're proposing is as broadly possible as you are suggesting in many industries. My own outdated sense of morality would also render my guilt intolerable with such a scheme. For those who are willing and capable of pulling it off, I wish you the best of luck!
tldr; this is only possible in a narrow range of jobs and if you're job is susceptible to this it probably shouldn't exist.
Interesting article as usual sir but some of the points made with respect to the nature of engineering work will only work with a certain type of role. In my 25 years experience as a safety and reliability engineer in the robotics and transportation industries (aerospace and rail) the type of fraudulent "faking it" you are suggesting would be almost immediately revealed and detected by colleagues and customers. I have been working 100% remotely for the last three years and I am required every single day to think quickly on my feet in order to solve a vast array of varied technical issues on embedded software and control systems ranging from avionics to rail signaling and control. These problems are almost always urgent as they are related to potential or actual hazardous situations. One simply couldn't fake performance of my job or be mentally or physically absent without detection and AI isn't nearly up to doing any of the technical analysis related to my work yet. Someday maybe but that day is still probably at least a decade away. Things like error and failure consequence analysis, real time troubleshooting and fault detection and correction of complex embedded systems is still beyond the capabilities of AI. I have a hard time imagining that many other industries such as power generation, automotive and other manufacturing aren't similarly difficult to fake. What you are suggesting has a narrower application I believe than what you are suggesting. I agree on all points about corporations and the meaninglessness of most work in them. For myself, I don't work for the corporation I work for the people in my team and in the hope that I am making safer vehicles and systems. It's not much but it's honest work LOL! I'm just not sure what you're proposing is as broadly possible as you are suggesting in many industries. My own outdated sense of morality would also render my guilt intolerable with such a scheme. For those who are willing and capable of pulling it off, I wish you the best of luck!