I don’t think it is common at all - I think we need to make it common, by asking all the time - especially those of us that are less easily replaced.

Woosh.

Well - we have a saying in German: “Fragen kostet nichts” - asking doesn’t cost anything. At least you tried then, worst they can say is “no”. Expect that, and who knows, maybe you get a surprise.

Maybe they’ll let you work with a “technical device” that you administrate yourself, while for access to company resources you still have to use the corporate vanilla computer.

Pull them all.

This here. Although I also save spiders and all kinds of critters. And I do occasionally eat meat, but not with a clear conscience. I avoid most milk products, but still haven’t managed to let go of cheese. :/

To be fair, people have become more stupid / subservient, to the point I can see why someone would think “let’s try that again”.

In any case, I am a software engineer and have never had the ability to negotiate my contract to that extent.

Have you ever tried? This kind of negotiation unfortunately typically requires a job change, employers are really really bad at understanding how valuable it is to motivate employees at little to no cost to them.

Spoiler: those are not senior devs, whether they believe so or not.

Teachers are educators, but not all educators are teachers. Also, the person I was originally responding to may have options in other fields.

You have the right disagree, without being right about it. That “junior dev” mindset is PR speak for “reasons to pay them less”. Actual developers have acquired skills as hobbyists long before entering a job, and will self-train continuously on the job. That’s how you get senior developers. Using a slop bot to generate code is something that 1) an actually skilled dev wouldn’t do because they have zero time gain from it, and 2) it will mean you keep dumb people dumb, never having them learn skills as time passes. Non-deterministic coding assistants are for gullible people who want to license-launder other people’s code and/or wouldn’t ever be able to create any proper software. And yes, that includes people who suffer from brain deterioration after having once been decent devs.

Unless they persuade enough gullible people (or corrupt governments) to eat the losses for them. Which is what they are trying.

I’d say such a statement can’t be made in general. There are a couple hundred countries on Earth and dozens of types of teaching jobs.

Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder…

Well - I hope you are exploring your job options as they are with that technical know-how. Even if no more than what you already shared, you’re miles ahead of most IT managers. I negotiated my contract so that the company gives webmail & an email signature, but I procured the computer, sent them the invoice & set it up myself. Since I have no need for intranet resources or office space, they have no reason to complain about (lack of) security oversight. In a teaching position you might be working under similar circumstancea.

Imagine Hitler was a tech bro and everyone gave him money. Basically billionaires investing in concentration camps. This individual demonstrated its serious need of psychotherapy with a double(!) Hitler salute in front of a worldwide TV audience, and somehow people think it’s a great idea to throw money at it.

Creating efficient automations is the basic must-have-skill of a good engineer. If you outsource that to a slop bot, you surrender to being a replacable mediocre button pusher. And your slop automations will be shit.

I have questions:

1. why do you have the technical knowledge to use a linux live ISO, including disabling secure boot - yet you still use microslop’s data stealing malware?
2. what has you being on your first period got to do with any of this?

(One of these questions may be in jest)

You are sadly correct. FB should have been smashed into bits 15 years ago for allowing their users to agree to share their address books.

All billionaires are a plague to this planet.

My apologies, it appears this stealing laurels is now a mass phenomenon by the slop fuckers. I was thinking of this incident: https://dnyuz.com/2026/09/10/an-n-y-u-mathematician-clashed-with-openai-over-a-1-million-proof/

The snag was that his collaborator is Levent Alpöge, a mathematician who works at Anthropic.

Dr. Buckmaster said since he and Dr. Alpöge had used both OpenAI and Anthropic tools, […]

I wouldn’t be surprised however, if the scientists mentioned in the OP also used slop tools to get into this situation. And if they did not, their work can’t have been used - unless a peer shared it with the slop fuckers.

Are these the moron mathematicians who worked for Anthropic and brought this entirely upon themselves?