It’s “the place are you now?” month at Ask a Supervisor, and all December I’m working updates from individuals who had their letters right here answered up to now.
There will probably be extra posts than common this week, so hold checking again all through the day.
Bear in mind the letter-writer whose worker was passing off ChatGPT lists as his personal concepts? Right here’s the replace.
Final yr, I wrote in a few junior engineer who was presenting ChatGPT checklist outcomes as his personal with out understanding the outcomes. Not surprisingly, the engineer tried doing this once more. And once more.
I took your recommendation to coronary heart and the following time it occurred, I scheduled a gathering with Dan and defined how he may use his ChatGPT outcomes to begin his investigation into the reply however I anticipated suggestions to be his work. He was not too responsive as a result of this might be extra work, which reinforces your level about being a personnel drawback and never a expertise drawback. Then, my (older) boss got here to me saying how nice this worker was and the way he had some many nice concepts for this different mission. I requested him if this was only a ChatGPT checklist and I used to be requested to analyze. Not surprisingly, after Dan reviewed his ChatGPT checklist, these concepts have been fully out of scope for the mission, and he wasted a very good 2 weeks exploring them. I now not had the time or vitality to battle Dan’s laziness (he isn’t my direct report) and his supervisor didn’t see a difficulty.
This was simply the tip of the iceberg of issues at this firm and I had been in search of a brand new and more difficult engineering analysis atmosphere. After 9 months of interviewing (thanks in your recommendation), I landed a job at Massive Tech Analysis Firm that blocks all types of AI because of safety issues. After 6 months, I discover most people listed here are overly motivated with huge brains. I spend my time telling them to take breaks or consider the massive image, which is a pleasant change. It’s a greater cultural match.
Thanks for taking my letter and all of the feedback. It was very useful to place the issue into perspective. I see that you simply’ve had some associated letters about ChatGPT, so it’s going to be a tricky expertise to handle because it turns into built-in into most software program applications. For the document, in my private life, I usually have to jot down reference letters and promotional textual content and ChatGPT is incredible! Tremendous fan. I didn’t use it for this letter! 🙂
