I’m with you on a lot of even most developers at a company making things worse rather than better.
However if for some reason a webinar is only going to be “live” with no recording to be provided, and further it may be a pointless session you don’t need but work mandates, then I would be firing off whatever recording/transcription/summarization they allow me. Like my employer has manated every employee regardless of job attending 60 hours of AI webinars in the year, to give the illusion of being in tune with AI without bothering to actually have a plan. Mostly it’s been people rambling without any actionable stuff trying to sound smart, absolutely every bit of it has been superficial, the speakers at best have toyed with prompts and read articles saying Nvidia gpus are useful. Not one of them have so much as even run a local model. There’s nothing in these 60 mandated hours that will do anything but waste time.
Even for mandatory “all hands” where we can’t all questions but at least I want to know what they are thinking, I’ll get a recording and watch it at 2x speed.
At my company we have tonnes of in house Lunch and Learns (on paid time, non mandatory) that are effectively “I found this super useful thing and want others to know about it”
And I’ll join these things, and see (person), who is on my team, in it too. Later I’ll hat with them about it, or at least try, and they’ll have zero clue wtf I’m talking about.
And it becomes obvious they just joined the meeting to give the illusion of caring, they prolly were afk the whole time. And I suspect this cuz they often do the same for our “in team” mandatory important meetings discussing critical stuff on the project.
I’m with you on a lot of even most developers at a company making things worse rather than better.
However if for some reason a webinar is only going to be “live” with no recording to be provided, and further it may be a pointless session you don’t need but work mandates, then I would be firing off whatever recording/transcription/summarization they allow me. Like my employer has manated every employee regardless of job attending 60 hours of AI webinars in the year, to give the illusion of being in tune with AI without bothering to actually have a plan. Mostly it’s been people rambling without any actionable stuff trying to sound smart, absolutely every bit of it has been superficial, the speakers at best have toyed with prompts and read articles saying Nvidia gpus are useful. Not one of them have so much as even run a local model. There’s nothing in these 60 mandated hours that will do anything but waste time.
Even for mandatory “all hands” where we can’t all questions but at least I want to know what they are thinking, I’ll get a recording and watch it at 2x speed.
If they are mandated, that’s just as bad I agree.
At my company we have tonnes of in house Lunch and Learns (on paid time, non mandatory) that are effectively “I found this super useful thing and want others to know about it”
And I’ll join these things, and see (person), who is on my team, in it too. Later I’ll hat with them about it, or at least try, and they’ll have zero clue wtf I’m talking about.
And it becomes obvious they just joined the meeting to give the illusion of caring, they prolly were afk the whole time. And I suspect this cuz they often do the same for our “in team” mandatory important meetings discussing critical stuff on the project.