u/theoozz

I’m pretty adept at GPT’s and LLM’s. I was an early adopter and have really pushed their use professionally and personally. I have started building my own custom GPT’s for work to automate things and I’m having some success. Apparently, I’m a top 5 user at my firm, which is a very large institution.

With that said, I’m not a coder. I work in risk management, most of what I am doing is task/process automation. I do believe this is the future. I think we could cut my team by 50%.

Any ideas on what kind of roles I could pursue or look for? Are there any firms that specialize it LLM implementation? I see a lot of prompt engineering roles but they require coding or AI research.

Venting… I work at a large financial institution and I’m just blown away with how inept our management is at senior director/VP-level. I feel like everyone has been around a long time and lucked into their job. I mean, you would be blown away with how bad some of the problem solving and critical thinking is.

A lot of people use their titles/position to give them credibility and authority. I.e, they think they are right because of their position. A lot want to be Elon Musk, close to all the details and decision making, constantly multi-tasking. I mean, I don’t think he does it well and they aren’t even close to Elon in terms of raw intelligence. They never come to meetings prepared, thinking they can figure it out the fly. They want to be part of every decision to cover their ass, but they just dont understand the details.

It makes me sick how confidently wrong they are.

And, they don’t want to be corrected. I had a disagreement with someone above me about something critical that they were objectively wrong about. Then, when I was proven correct, I looked bad for pointing it out. It’s like wtf is going on?

I feel like everyone is just a check the box rule follower. Follow the procedure, what did we do last time. There is absolutely no innovation and no vision. If there is any uncertainty, they will kick the decision around 100 times until a decision is forced on them. We’ve been tackling the same issue for 18 months and it has gone NOWHERE. Let’s ask X, then Y, engage Z, oh we forgot about A

I’m like a senior manager, and the talent at my level is DEEP. There are at least 5-6 people I closely work with that are top notch. CFA’s, 4.0 summa cum Laude, critical thinking, etc. We all feel the same way and commiserate about it. Unfortunately, I’m probably the worst at the playing the game, but my directness also makes me highly effective at moving things forward.

I am looking for other jobs but it is tough on these street. Anyone else at somewhere big and complex that sees the same shit?